skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if, you know, they did knock, then the law-abiding gun owner would come and open the door, like in most of the civilized world. Or take them when they are out, wait for them to get home, etc. There are numerous ways to make an arrest without going all commando.
That is way too logical and cost-effective. Plus then they wouldn't get to use the cool-as-shit flashbangs that their dept got on the cheap.
One idea I had was to leverage nix channels to use Nix as the package manager _only for language packages_. Instead of downloading the default set of packages, you subscribe to the "Wren" (;-)) channel with `$ nix-channel --add http://github.com/wren/nixpkgs` and now you have all the local packages for your language. It could basically "be" the PyPI or RubyGems for a language.
#swerve
Installing Selenenium on infected machines is not very stealthy. The new malware usually tries to stay in the kernel to avoid detection. Try stuffing Selenium in the kernel :-)
The actual CoffeeScript source of the Sencha Touch 2 app is in this folder: https://github.com/celwell/wesawit-st2-app/tree/master/web-s...
This is correct. If you ever look into how social media botnets are constructed and run, the good ones already do all the command and control through headless webkit tools. It's one of the primary reasons that it is so difficult to filter out whether or not a social profile is indeed a person or not from a statistical observation at mass.
It makes perfect sense when PHP is actually being used as a backend-isolated, controlled-environment templating language.

Imagine this setup:

1. you have Nginx at $DOMAIN, with your well-oiled API service (with no HTML rendering logic to be found within it) mounted to /, and a PHP FCGI instance sitting on /views.

2. Nginx is configured such that /views is only accessible from localhost.

3. Your webapp on / mostly sees requests with "Accept: application/json" or some such. It responds to these directly.

4. If your webapp sees "Accept: text/html", it does the same stuff it would to render a text/json response... but then takes that response body, and sends it in an HTTP subrequest back to Nginx, to, say, /views/accounts.php.

5. PHP does this:

extract(json_decode($_POST['response']));

...and then does whatever it does, simply and elegantly, to render your template.

6. Your webapp catches the response from Nginx, and sends it back without modification to the client.
> Now, we're not as exceptional as we used to be. But in large part because Europe spent the last couple of decades becoming more like us.

Or perhaps things were set up really good for the US after WWII? Then eventually a lot of Europe started to catch up to that initial advantage.

In the case of the old Soviet Block, given their past, basically anything that they could have done w.r.t. their markets and governments would have made them more like the US, if they aspired to some kind of democracy and some kind of free market. So I'm not so sure if 'More like the US' is very descriptive.
As someone that has had alopecia aereata in the past, I will get my hopes up! There are definitely worse fates in the world than alopecia aereata, but not having people ask if I intentionally shaved a random section of my head would be nice.
I would like to take the opportunity to say that your fast, no-bullshit answers (and actions) are appreciated (in general the Rust community seems to foster this sort of positive attitude, carry on).
so dumb question, would not some forms of spectral analysis or similar work? This chip solution seems a bit too work intensive for most crops, would not large fields be a bit much for installs?

for my dumb question I found this http://isda.ncsa.illinois.edu/Hyperspectral/hyperAgricultur....
Not only is the video disingenuous in implying that the standard Airbnb host is someone who simply rents a room (which would not be subletting and would not be subject to nearly as many concerns), the other facts they have on the site support entirely different economic stimulus arguments, and entirely ignore the zoning and legal questions, where they know they are completely wrong.

It is frustrating to see Airbnb attempt to manipulate their way to winning. While we tend to hate people who abuse regulation to stay in power, Airbnb seems to be attempting to do the same from the other side. That they are already attempting this level of manipulation before having the level of power of the hotel lobby should give us some concern about a future in which Airbnb runs the vacation rentals game.
Automate your team lunch ordering
I've received an invitation from Opera for publishing/porting app on Nokia, which stated that Microsoft team will be contacting me should I choose to proceed... So it does sound like they seems to be taking some part handling Nokia store.
1. Understand the structure of the system. SWAT teams and local police are a local problem, not a national one. Cases like this will happen all around the country, but there really isn't anything you can do about it. It is up to the local population to elect their police chiefs (or... elect mayors / governors who choose good police chiefs).

2. The "Executive Branch" of Obama honestly has nothing to do with this. Understanding where you place your efforts is important. You can try and make this a national issue, but it isn't one.

3. Recognize that state departments and local police are going to do things you don't like, especially when you're far away and hold no control over them.

The US has a federal system. Its the power we've given to local officials to run localities the way they like. Now, if we are to make this a national issue, we'll have to pass something in Congress as a nation... something that seems very unlikely given the gridlock on the national law system at the moment.
> Believe it or not, this is the safest way to do "no-knock" for everyone involved.

Tell that to this child and to his parents.
How to make AWS costs look low 
I tried Amazon's TCO calculator for EC2, and the results for on-site costs seem absurd. One VM, with 4 GB of memory and 500 GB SAN storage, they estimate at $156,989.00 for three years on-site. That does not include labor. Co-location they estimate at $181,111.00. For one VM, for three years. That seems a bit high. I get that they are trying to make EC2 seem cheap in comparison, but the numbers seem laughable.
In my experience a good mentor/coach/consultant prompts introspection in a much more powerful way than books are able.
I'm not sure what your reference to "executive interpretations" is about, but the level of process that is due has been determined through case law. The test for the past 30+ years has been a balancing test that considers the following factors:

"Three factors are relevant in determining what process is constitutionally due: (1) the private interest that will be affected by the official action; (2) the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and (3) the Government's interest." See Mathews v. Eldridge.

Here's one case[1] I found in which the Supreme Court appears to allow an officer to be suspended without pay, but due to his having been charged with a felony. In such a case, the government's interest in suspension without pay is greater, and from skimming the opinion, it appears that a significant factor was that a grand jury found probable cause to indict the officer.

[1] http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/520/924/case.html
These quotes are never accurate because it's marketology spread by a PR firm :-)
Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution
Interesting-- tensiometers have been used in soil for a few years now, but never implanted into the plant. Tensiometers basically measure the pressure change caused by plant roots soaking up water.
The Facilities Manager Who’s Been Google, Facebook's Secret Weapon
CollectD: The system statistics collection daemon
> if your house were kept colder, then you'd lose less energy to the outside.

Yes, but I can't let it cool very far, so it's only a small energy saving.

> How does this compare to the efficiency gain by running your more efficient flame?

The boiler can be up to 98.6% efficient at low flame, going down to 86% at full flame.

And after experimenting it always ended up at full flame when trying to rewarm a house.

> Have you calculated or measured that you actually save energy overall?

I tried, but I couldn't, winters are just so variable. I even emailed the EPA asking if they had research data, but they didn't.
CEO late for dinner
From reading all these legal nuances I feel like next step would be to rent away for free drones to customers which they will use in turn to pickup their packages at amazon warehouses :)
My colleague from chennai mailed it to me. senthil at RailsFactory dot com
They're not looking for the presence/absence of JS/Flash but other things that can be measured by it. I assume their approach is similar to Spider.io (since acqui-hired by Google) which found (if I'm remembering correctly) that certain javascript calls ran differently or at different speeds depending on whether the browser instance was real. Similar to how software can detect whether it's running inside a VM because of subtle differences in how instructions are executed.

That said, if I had a botnet I'd just figure out what domains belonged to WhiteOPs and null-route them.
So the correct summery would be, male monkeys don't prefer (plushy) dolls.

Which doesn't seem to imply much, especially since many human males (and females!) tend to enjoy Warhammer-esque figures and action figures anyway. In point of fact, the evidence that humans prefer them for the intellectual qualities associated with them shows we have a higher intelligence which can deal with and ignore our primal instincts anyway.
Instead, why don't you attack the house where his child and girlfriend/grandma are sleeping? Is that a better solution? Doesn't that turn the town/neighborhood/village against you? Kill someone's kid and they'll never trust anyone that looks like you again; they'll probably try to kill you if they can, and they definitely won't help you with information. Neither will their friends or relatives.

Why would you care if the target flees to another zone/state/country? They're out of your hair and without contacts, they won't be nearly as effective in their objectives.

Since we're talking domestic, they're not nearly as likely to flee to another country or state; people are tied to neighborhoods. Sure, if they're alerted to your surveillance your job gets a lot harder, but that doesn't matter to the innocent.

Crime is down, and police are dangerous. That's the environment we have now. If middle class white people fear the police more than criminals, the police have a problem, and the government has a problem. That prevents them from doing their jobs as well.
Just tried installing the encrypted version (after installing pycrypto binaries.) It didn't work as these binaries do not include GMP/MPIR _fastmath, and I got lot of errors related to the them during install.

The unencrypted version works just fine though.
Phpfmt for Sublime Text 3
The real problem is that the war on drugs if fantastically profitable for everyone involved: drug cartels, police, and for-profit prisons alike. Just look at the original criminalization of marijuana (and indeed the English adoption of the Mexican word used to invoke racist hatred and fear) which was basically spearheaded by Dow so they could sell their inferior synthetic substitutes for hemp.

Legalizing drugs would make all the violence go away over night, and let us spend the money directly on the social problems drugs cause (which obviously haven't been reduced in the least be criminalization).
Having built them for the ATF, there are concealable cameras that mount to light poles and run off grid power. There are also concealable cameras that look like fire hydrants, high voltage signs, rocks, and cars that are designed to feed the video back wirelessly and be rapidly deployable.
Spectral analysis (via drone, satellite, airplane etc) is good but won't give you the resolution of 1 chip per plant. It does seem labor intensive to implant every plant, but not impossible. Even large farmers trim and take cuttings from individual plants.
It's called the gender equality paradox. The more supposedly 'equal' the opportunities between genders are, the more the outcomes seem to diverge. Scandinavian countries have strong gender-based career divergence as well.
Comment/forum spam is different game than botnet ad fraud. The latter executes JavaScript by design since it's often necessary to load the ads.
Clicked link, ads shown -> mission accomplished (for TC, at least)
Thanks for the link. I thought I vaguely remembered hearing something about this before.

Just as with Microsoft and Amazon, I get why Google does this, but I think it hurts users and pretty much guarantees there's going to be limited Android experiences for lots of users out there. "Take all our apps, on our terms, or take none," pretty much guarantees the Microsofts and Amazons of the world are going to take none.

Andorid may be an open platform but it's primary app distribution channel clearly is not. It's an interesting contortion...they don't qualitatively screen apps, but they effectively screen what flavor of the platform can have the chief app repository itself.
This looks similar to RoboCraft http://robocraftgame.com/
There is also the matter of the incorrect measurements contributing to the sinking of the Vasa: http://www.pri.org/stories/2012-02-23/new-clues-emerge-centu...
MadeSolid (YC W14) Makes 3D Material for Casting Metal
You could easily flush a couple of kilos of cocaine. Owning a couple kilos of coke makes you a fairly successful mid-level dealer who must know people higher up on the food chain.

P.S. I'm not defending the cops here, just saying, you don't need truck fulls of drugs to be considered "big-time", and they usually get to the bigger fish via the smaller ones.
Less of an "web designer" and more of an "ad designer"
Antipattern
Then maybe he should invest in making sure the PR quotes him accurately?
Thanks for the replies.

By stable, I meant something that doesn't have the unpredictable UI variations of checkout.js, which for some of us is a significant concern. (See various previous HN discussions about Stripe, particularly around the time the phone number/remember me changes came in.)

When there was always the alternative of using stripe.js (as also repeatedly mentioned in previous HN discussions) this wasn't a huge deal, because anyone who wanted stability could just go the other path. I think some of the concerns before were more about how many of us didn't realise that Stripe sees checkout.js as an ever-evolving test bed.

If that no longer applies then there is now a need to choose between instability with checkout.js and losing features with stripe.js. When I first joined this discussion today, I was happy at the idea of Stripe starting to support a broader range of payment options. As I'm reading more, my joy is turning to concern that checkout.js is becoming the preferred integration method with significant downsides for those who don't comply.

I do understand that there may be good reasons for locking in your choice of payment UI. On the other hand, this is not the first time I've dealt with a payment service where you can't cleanly integrate the whole process into your own brand/UX, and interrupting that flow rarely turns out happily for conversion rates or, sometimes, brand reputation.

With that in mind, if proper support isn't available for Alipay, then some sort of alipay.js as you mentioned would certainly be welcome, particularly if it allows at least basic styling customisation to match the colour scheme and typography of the merchant's site.
They say the drug has been used for alopecia areata in mice. Maybe check the side-effects in humans and try to snag yourself some?
I get extremely frustrated by the plethora of Edtech initiatives, all purporting to solve some problem but in reality simply making more work for teachers.

In my school we have an MIS that seems to have evolved from an Access Database created in the 90s, that manages all student data, but has no API. We also have a VLE that was designed to look pretty, but offers almost no functionality and has a UI that is tortuous to use and actually lengthens the time it takes to mark work and record results.

Every teacher I work with has a different way of operating. Some write assignments on the board and take in hard copies. Other's use the official VLE. Some use email or shared network drives, and others Edmodo or whatever platform is flavour of the month.

Work is marked and fed back to students, and then inevitable placed in an Excel spreadsheet, exported as a CSV or transcribed into a paper mark book, only then to be then double entered into our MIS at a later date.

The system is a mess, and every new Edtech tool I see just adds to the confusion - another URL to remember, another username, password, interface. I wonder how many Edtech startups have founders that were actual teachers, or bring teachers on board at an early stage. Judging by the tools on offer, I would guess that it's not many.

There are a couple of exceptions. EdX, I think, is an amazing platform, but even though it is OpenSource, it is well beyond the capabilities of most schools to set up an in-house platform. Codecademy seem to genuinely want to engage with teachers (in the UK at least) but where are the Codecademy startups for Geography or French or Science.

In my own teaching I find myself increasingly shunning new Edtech tools, and now barely bother clicking on the links I receive in my inbox every day. Until Edtech startups really engage with teachers, rather than just treating them as beta testers, I really don't see anything in the future other than increasing fragmentation and frustration.
Interesting question... would love to see some answers.
Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out.

Given our ignorance, though, and the likelihood that along some margin or another this becomes a zero-sum game between the atypical and the typical, I'd rather see a little less swashbuckling from the more aggressive advocates of undoing gender expectations. Much of this looks like surgery by sledgehammer to me.
If that is what it does, they should have clearly stated that in the article. Instead, its in a completely separate press release :/

EDIT:

Its apparently stated here:
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/White-Ops-Secures-7...

"White Ops offers the world's first systematic solution for accurately isolating and eliminating bot-infected traffic. By applying the techniques of Side Channel Analysis across thousands of real-time user session variables, White Ops differentiates between a human and machine-driven request -- regardless of the sophistication of the bot programmer and across the full spectrum of impression and click fraud techniques. This approach is vastly more effective than methods generally employed by legacy fraud detection services, which rely largely on historical data and statistical and predictive analysis to detect bot activity. "
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Wouldn't a "Lisp CPU" be like the one in the classic Lisp Machines, which didn't execute Lisp directly, but were optimised for executing it?
Sensationalist, neuroscience vs. philosophy drivel from the author. There's nothing extreme about reductionist physical determinism in philosophy of mind literature. This methodology, besides being grossly inadequate at the experimental goals as portrayed in the article, doesn't add substantial evidence to the philosophical debate. Supervenience, epiphenomenalism, etc., all allow for fully deterministic physics of mind with various mechanisms of free will available (even if only as an explanatory agent in some). And I say this as someone who shares a similar metaphysical outlook as Kreiman.

Luckily Kreiman's work isn't about free will, but neural mechanisms of decision making. And it's quite interesting in that context. He (and Bok and Boyden) say as much in the article, but for some reason scientific journalism has to create equivocal contexts for everything because they're convinced whatever they're reporting on isn't interesting enough for what it is. And apparently it works, because it ends up here.
Everything will be in the "narrow" band of technology, give it time :)
ISC: Cray makes Lustre palatable for storage administrators
I hate the "war on drugs" and the levels to which the police take it, but the only person who said "a small amount of drugs" was the parent. I can't imagine that a SWAT team would be used for a "small amount of drugs".
Then you're not supporting YAML, you're supporting your own subset of YAML.
From a blog comment- is it convicing?

"One central question in the philosophy of physics is how we should understand quantum mechanics (QM). We may want to know what we should take QM to be about. It’s worth noting that, in some (but not all) cases, this is no longer an empirical question: for instance, the traditional Copenhagen interpretation of QM is empirically equivalent to the Everett "many worlds" interpretation of QM. So, if we can’t do an experiment to settle the issue, we need to resort to some other method, which is where philosophers of physics come in."
Svpply to retire on August 31st
I have Denmark in mind too!
The goal is to use package manager defaults and community pressure to keep things on the straight and narrow. We'll see how it goes!
I edited my example to make it a little better. Point being: If you are a big enough dealer to be useful to the police in a larger investigation (or to warrant SWAT team "no-knocking" at your door), you probably have quite a bit of related evidence that would not fit down a toilet.
I serve on a tech advisory committee for a local school district. I am unforgiving on a single point: students need access to a development environment -- or at least the ability to install software -- or else these computers are just consumables.

I've suggested numerous setups to get around all of the excuses tech people at the district give. Would you mind sharing personal contact info for either yourself or your IT staff so that I can go to administration with a "this works in practice, here, go see" argument?
What's disturbing is how many of them are based on a single informant and also look like not the slightest effort was made to verify that information. Literally picking up a guy off the street for some minor crime, telling him you'll let him go for a bigger fish, getting an address from him, and sending in the goons without another thought. If it's a big enough crime to justify a SWAT raid, then surely it's big enough for just a little bit of investigation.

It seems dangerous in two ways. Both that most of these tips are probably for completely innocent people who may now be subject to extreme levels of violence with no justification, and that once in a while, one of them might be for something much worse than they thought, putting the officers themselves in a lot of unnecessary danger because they didn't do any investigation.
To be fair, "babel" isn't really a unique emacs term. It had a meanings outside of emacs, and a movie... and multiple albums... and a book... and the open babel chemical project... and the python internationalization library...

Maybe it was confusing already?
Fun with TokuMX
Google != NSA. Google is working with the NSA to provide front door access, but are working to prevent back door spying by the agency. This may sound pedantic, but it's better to be precise with serious issues such as this.