skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I obviously do not know how these LECs are setup legally speaking, but it is possible to own and operate fully automatic weapons legally as a civilian or business. You can get a tax stamp from the ATF for a few hundred dollars. As an example, my local commercial gun range offers rentals for fully automatic assault rifles and submachine guns at their ranges.

That said, this LEC charade is sickening and they should be punished as severely as the law allows. Of course it's America and the police can and do get away with murder so that'll never happen.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Firearms_License

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
The spanner paper doesn't discuss this in detail, but they have atomic clocks in addition to GPS clocks in large part because GPS clocks can fail or be expoited in this way and atomic clocks cannot.
Well, cheaper and easier testing is great for everyone, particular in environments that can't run expensive fully equipped pathology laboratories eg rural areas, developing nations, refugee camps etc.

But at the end of the day, we need better tests, not better ways of testing. Looking through their test menu, it's the same old diagnostic blood tests we've been using for the last 30 or even 50 years. Hopefully there is something revolutionary behind the hype. I don't think it will be consumerization - none of those listed tests is going to help early detection of anything by getting yourself tested at Walgreens while you're buying toothpaste. Similarly, most of the tests are only useful when applied in a well fleshed out diagnostic process that involves collecting data about symptoms and medical history to generate a prior probability of the disease. Otherwise the false positive rate is high, and the false negative rate difficult to deal with. The utility of serial monitoring as a marker of health is also far from proven, but is an interesting idea. At the moment though, if you go to your doctor and say your homocysteine levels are fluctuating strangely, they won't have a clue what to do about it...

I would also add that proving that a test can be used to detect a disease early, and that early detection leads to a measurable improvement in disease outcomes takes a very long time, a lot of patients and a lot of money. So if they have made some great advance in microfluidic chemoproteomics that can actually detect the early traces of a disease process then that would be amazing, but one must remain skeptical.
-1 no visualization

-1 seems like the author didn't use EM-friendly sleeps & http clients when appropriate.

-1 not clear if the author used a separate, in-DC machine for load testing or his laptop, and what the CPU looked like on the test machines during those tests. If they're sitting idle at 20% usage because RTT between your desk and EC2, that's not a great test. Additionally, it takes some sysctl tuning to really make OSX able to run a decent number of requests/s necessary for load testing of any type.
As a practical matter, no, its not freely available. There is a reason why no one knows the law, and its not because no one tries, but because their efforts to know the law that binds them are actively thwarted by its publishers.

It is available online, but its unusable for the layman due to ridiculously bad design. You must agree to a contract to use it ("terms of use", "license") and promise never to repeat what you read. Purposely bad design in my opinion. Its 30,000 sections of regulations we're talking about here (there's a further 150,000 sections of California law, 50,000 sections of federal law, and 30,000 sections of federal regulations), and you only know it doesn't apply after you read it. Its javascript-based and uses session cookies, so if you take longer than 5 minutes to read a 30 page section with a bad layout that uses intensely complex verbiage, the next click will "close the book" in your face, and if you have no idea where you were, well, tough luck, there's always prison. If you try and open multiple windows, say, to read another section which is referred to, each window will interfere with each other. (Even trying will likely close the book in your face.) Each click is unbearably slow to load. (29,999 bottles of beer on the wall, 29,999 bottles of beer, take one down, can't pass it around, 30,001 bottles of beer on the wall.) There is no way to give a permalink to your grandma or on your blog, because there are no permalinks. Grandma will have to try and navigate the horrible website herself, and when she likely fails, well, tough luck, there's always prison.

It is available as bulk data on CD-ROM (in California) for a significant price, on the order of $3000 per edition. Did I mention it changes almost constantly? Obviously, no permalinks for your blog.

California is better than most in that the government was sued and forced to release the statutory law on the web.[1] Other states are not so lucky.

[1] http://maplight.org/pr_lawsuit
"In my line of work, either I'm building a new component, or I'm dealing with requirements change. So dealing with the shifting sands of what the system should do is a major concern."

And that is simply the case with certain lines of work.

To help me determine which requirements changes are simply a failure in the requirements process I ask myself:

"If I had shipped feature X a month ago would it have had business value?"

If the answer is no then I'm likely dealing with a legitimate requirements change.

For example:
If I worked in the tax industry and the government changes tax laws then shipping these changes months before would not deliver any business value.

Or if I have to make a requirements change because of an external dependency changing. No extra value.
"UNIVERSAL      INFLUENCE"
A better solution would probably be to just rank exact matches higher.
I just wanted to say I agree entirely with this. It gives me great confidence that this book was well thought out when the chapter by chapter snippets are so clear and concise. I like the drawings too that gives my imagination something to grab onto and breaks it up a little.
Thoughts on the culture that gave birth to the personal computer (2013)
If you assume they had no pressing need for any VPC specific functionality, you can get similar security by locking your security group/s down to only ELB for public service ports and having one instance in another security group with ssh/vpn allowed (to specific ips) as a jump box/vpn. Spending weeks of multiple teams engineering time to move to VPC without a pressing need would seem to me to make little business sense.
Not if that civilian/business has committed a felony...
Web video is killing television...oh wait.
>No it doesn't. It's a crazy bigoted rant with an undercurrent of misogyny.

That blog article wasn't written by the study authors. Also what did you find crazy and bigoted about it? I haven't read anything else on that site and the author may be prone to "cray bigoted rants" (I have no idea), but that the article in question seemed to be a fairly level headed reporting of findings in a journal article that pretty closely matches the study's abstract. Maybe I missed something?

>'scientific'

I don't know anything about the journal that published this study, but from a quick google search it appeared to be an actual academic peer reviewed journal, and the author is a professor of sociology at Western Washington University who was the chair of the department at the time the study was written. The data used in the study also seems to be readily available from the CDC.

Why the scare quotes? Do you have any evidence that this study is invalid?

>study only looked at women implies that something is a bit dodge.

Many studies are limited in scope in a similar manner. How you can make that claim that a study looking only at women implies that it's dodgy?
For Python there's also PyExcelerate for creating XLSX files: https://github.com/kz26/PyExcelerate

Supposedly it's the fastest, even beating out xlsxwriter.
Using Node.js in Production
But I can recall ip4 addresses en mass in my head. I can't memorize ip6 addresses easily. Plus, I'd like to keep pockets of private IPs that are never accessible as routable targets.

Can you explain why I wouldn't to do this or why I should evolve my understanding of ip6 better?
As a matter of principle, in the US at least, laws to which you are bound are supposed to be freely-as-in-freedom available. That doesn't mean they invariably are, though; people find various ways to extract rent from the law.[1]

Usually the law as enacted by the legislature / ruled by the courts is free, but they might incorporate by reference some non-free rules developed and maintained by commercial entities. These are things like building codes, fire codes, and so on, which might cost thousands of dollars for a copy and not be redistributable. [2] The recentish example (2002) is Veeck vs. SBCCI[3].

[1] https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/04/16/can-states-...

[2] http://simplesupports.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/building-code...

[3] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Veeck_v._Southern_Building_Cod...
Wouldn't it be fairly easy to determine their FP/FN figures just by sending them lots of blood samples with known composition? If it's a black box, use black-box testing methods.
No, it's still eating.
Add http://www.heiho.net/pam_shield/ and http://www.snafu.priv.at/mystuff/pam_recent.c to that list.

I use use some iptables voodoo with them to auto-whitelist on successful auth and blacklist on failed auth attempts.

Three things to note about google authenticator:

1. ssh keys bypass it unless you have a patched version of OpenSSH with multiauth

2. It can be configured to have you append your one time code to your password for interop with things that can't handle keyboard-interactive auth

3. It is self contained and doesn't use any google services to function.
No reason why you can't roll with React to do this. Although backbone supplies a "View", it's very thin and makes it easy to use your own method of getting data into the dom.
The only one not mentioned so far that I use is DownThemAll.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

It's nice for when you want to download a lot of files that appear on a page.
+1 I would contribute. Seriously you should think of how much money you would need to incentive you to really focus, then quintuple it, then post a kickstarter.
Hyundai’s 2015 Genesis will automatically brake for speed cameras
Not necessarily since you can just concatenate everything and use almond.js. Much more lightweight on the tooling front.
haha same here! I was going to post about it!
Ask HN: Why are mobile apps ballooning in size recently?
Many of these well-known apps on the App Store are ostensibly just a skin over an API. Are they not just pushing and pulling text, images, and videos to and from a service and presenting it? Why have they grown to such huge sizes? None of these appear to have significant media assets:

Facebook: 59.3MB
LinkedIn: 51.3MB
Pinterest: 37.8MB
Google+: 35.3MB
Yelp: 30.0MB
Sleep Cycle: 25.8MB
Twitter: 18.9MB
Clear: 13.7MB
Speedtest: 13.9MB

For contrast, here are a couple apps proving a decent amount of functionality can be contained in sensible bundle sizes:

McTube: 6.6MB
Hacker News by Ashish Gandi: 405KB

Safari.app's application bundle on OSX is 28MB.
For Clojure, there's the Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook[0] and Clojure for Machine Learning[1]. Both on my reading list.

[0] http://www.packtpub.com/clojure-data-analysis-cookbook/book

[1] http://www.packtpub.com/clojure-for-machine-learning/book
Here is a hypothetical solution:

(0). Make patent issue fee ridiculously expensive (100k+ ?).

(1). Increase the salaries of every patent examiner to ridiculously high levels, supported by the extremely high fee.

(2). Make every patent examiner personally liable for approving a patent, to the extent of a lien on their personal assets. No bankruptcy allowed (as for student loans).

(3). If any patent is later proved to be carelessly approved, infringing on prior art or broader than it deserved to be, the patent examiner should be held liable and pay damages for every patent they approved that was struck down.

That might help cut down the indiscriminate issuance of patents that should never have been allowed in the first place.
Have you seen elementaryOS? Everything they've come up with looks a million times more polished than anything else in the Linux world.
instead of blocking, shouldn't we create extensions that make us appear as the same person on the web?
Android’s L release beta in pictures
Can a business commit a felony?

Edit: Legally I mean. Typically the felony falls on the chain of command in my limited legal understanding.

Edit2: In the US
Hi, I'm Ryan, I wrote Epoch. Yes, I agree hover support would be nice. My take on the initial release was that I wanted to keep it super simple. So I decided that we should first build out the basic charts without any bells or whistles. To aid developers who need more than just the basics I also built out a small class hierarchy that allows you to override / modify the default chart behaviors.

It's pretty clear that library needs better support for features like this moving forward. At the very least, there should be consistent and straightforward way to extend Epoch to help with these sorts of things.

If anyone is interested in continuing the discussion I've opened up a new issue in the repository specifically targeting hover behaviors: https://github.com/fastly/epoch/issues/63
Hmm, I didn't notice any.
Distributed, deduplicating, Node.js based filesystem with a REST interface
I am generally very happy with KDE.

It's much more hacker-friendly than Gnome/Unity IMO. Its footprint is huge and there's enormous power in it that I don't use. XFCE is similar but doesn't have the polish that KDE does, especially around multimonitor support.

I would encourage the KDE team to focus on driving towards the hacker use case and letting that power drive the end user experience. :)
It's not just that the protocol is vulnerable. With e.g. openssh you can not just deny access to the ssh service, you can max out CPU on the entire machine if you hammer it enough.
Thanks so much, that was one of the key design decisions. We needed something that gave us the expressive power of d3 for basic charts without going overboard.
One thing that may not have come across in the post is that one of the reasons we moved into VPC first is that Direct Connect is basically just a big dump pipe to AWS without VPC in place. Without VPC, there's no way to advertise routes for just your instances or to ensure that only traffic to/from your instances goes across the Direct Connect.
"It's not terribly surprising that if causality is baked into your specification, then you're going to have to use causality as part of your implementation."
I dont understand this statement. Causality is the base of the ordering specification, that's correct to say as "baked into your specification". What does "use causality as part of your implementation."? The paper does not use causality to implement causality, it uses causality to implement mutex. Any contradiction here?
While it's great that you ship with secure defaults, to me, if you're going to restrict it to access from the host only, that just makes it more pointless to run sshd in the containers vs. the alternatives presented in the article.
Man, wouldn't it be awesome if we'd had the public internet instead of just BBSes back when stuff like this was cutting-edge tech, instead of just a clever hack? Imagine if, say, C64 devs and hackers could do this kind of sharing instead of being limited to word-of-mouth.
HealthKit Gets the Incentives Wrong
So the real-time charts support CSS styling, though I don't think they'll handle gradients at this time. Why not open up an issue on github :) ?
HN got me to top 65 app in the productivity category for the USA. Thank you!
I'd gladly take the job. I'd even buy an ergonomic "DENIED" stamp.

It's the only stamp I'd use.
@2x png's take up a deceptive amount of space
2072 until I got bored.
Bitten by the bug
Spanner has "interval" in its time. It uses high-accuracy atomic clocks to narrow the uncertainty window. It actually proves that Lamport's technique is more fundamental, because even with such hardware, you still can run into situation where the system has no idea what the order of events is.
My first app: Cheerist – Get motivated by sharing goals with friends
There is a lot of truth to what you're saying, but while it sounds great for software that is built for its own sake, it sounds too uncompromising in most business settings. The fact is that most software is built in service to a business and the developer is (quite rightly) judged by the extent to which the software serves the business well, rather than the extent to which the code behind it is "good" or "bad". Ignoring that and attaching your identity to that quality of the code rather than the service to the business is folly. Having said that, it is all a short-term / long-term trade-off; "bad" code can be expedient and beneficial short-term while "good" code is almost always better in the long term. Deciding when to serve short-term and when to serve long-term business goals is the Hard Part, but the answer isn't to stubbornly apply one rule or another.
Google's insane all-seeing Project Tango tablet is coming to consumers next year
Facebook is fighting Manhattan's district attorney over user privacy
I think this is more like if you and your software engineering buddies incorporate some kind of organization to own your kayaks, and then someone asks for the log of the kayaks' usage, and you're like:

"we may have paid for those kayaks, but we gave them to this other organization that is basically us, but it is not the organization that owes you transparency, so fuck off."
Snow Crash was written long after Robocop and the Sprawl series.

Sheesh. Kids.
I agree with you that a minimum wage can be beneficial in industries where wages are not negotiated between parties of equal strength, for example, the giant Walmart that employs half the people in town. In this case, economic models show that a minimum wage could actually increase employment by pushing wages closer to what the competitive wage would be.

However, I'd argue that in many (if not most) industries this is not the case. In fast-food and software, for example, the workers are free to move between employers at will, giving the workers significant power to negotiate.

I remain skeptical that governments (or unions) are smart enough to set the correct minimum wage without going under or overboard, which would hurt the unemployed and consumers. A better solution, I think, is a basic income system that ensures nobody is in poverty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Are you talking Java or javascript?

I don't know if its that surprising that js isn't more popular. Html5 hasn't been supported by browsers for nearly as long. I've done the Udacity html5 game course and worked with flash a bit, and the tooling for Flash makes it easier / faster to build apps/games.
Hey, Noga here. What do other people know about EMR/clinical data integration?
How do we tell truths that might hurt? (EWD-498) [pdf]
I've been using Kubuntu for about 6 months. I was originally a Windows user looking to learn more about Linux and wasn't a big fan of the OSX UI. I went to KDE because it looked and acted like Windows but had the power of Linux underneath the hood.

I'm looking forward to the future of KDE and applaud the team for their effort and passion.
I wish I was still in! Do you work in supplies or the motor pool?
You are a stupid nigger.

God yawns and does a full frontal assault on the CIA and they run away as fast as they can.

-----

I was joking. Nobody actually chooses the side against God.

Who would fight God? Well obviously change sides.

You really are a stupid fuck nigger! It's God. Fucken retard.
Under that theory the 501(c)(3) org would only be able to procure and register NFA weapons that were registered before 1986, which would be very expensive and not practical. Only actual law enforcement agencies can register post-1986 weapons (or FFL holders that deal in such weapons).
What a great story - thank you for your service, and for sharing!

I have a much, much less impressive story, but maybe someone will find it interesting: I was working at a military library as a civilian, and I automated repetitive parts of our workflow to add books to WorldCat using Autohotkey (We added books to WorldCat so other libraries could request them). I also came up with the idea of using our barcode scanners to check books out to people using a Word document - our library database at the time was slow, far away, and went down regularly. Up till then, no one had realized that you could scan bar codes into a document.

Unfortunately, I didn't realize that the automation I did was unauthorized; there was a shakeup that had to do with misuse of CAC cards, and as part of that, my scripts were discovered and I lost my job.
Still, I think that kindled an interest in programming, and I now hack away happily at personal projects.
Why not hold the patent filers liable and have them paid damages for their struck down patents? Why blame the examiners? Blame the source of the problem.
Well no, but people acting as agents of a business can
Race Conditions == Random Number Generation
GAO Report 14-496: Virtual Currencies: Emerging Regulatory Challenges
Awesome work, as a Vim user and plugin maintainer I loved it.
The switch for disabling activities and widgets exists; you can enable it by not using activities and widgets. It's not like they're forced upon you.

If you feel that strongly about widgets, you can switch to the Folder plasma view, which is a standard OSX, Windows XP-style desktop without any extravagance. Or just widgets on the standard desktop, if even folders aren't austere enough for you.

(I agree with you about activities— so far as I can tell, they're basically virtual desktops without the convenience; ironically, the only 'advantage' they seem to have is having different sets of widgets. But they're basically unintrusive— I certainly don't remember the last time I interacted with them on my desktop)
i don't know the details, but this seems not to apply to licensed police officers.

Johannes Mehserle, for instance, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter while on duty as a BART cop, but it's my understanding that he has continued to serve in a new police department.

obviously, this is atrocious.
Do you really think that the authors missed such a completely obvious flaw, something so simple that a random internet commenter could use it to invalidate the entire work in one sentence? It's hard to take this type of criticism seriously without any specific references to their methodology.
In fact, this was the first React project that he worked on -- he rewrote our old angular app within a week of when React first came out, and had been hooked since.
Maintaining thousands of forwarding/routing configs sounds just as nasty as implementing Neti.

At any rate, Instagram's been around since 2010 and GCE didn't exist until June 2012 (and wasn't generally available until this past December).
it is shocking how much you don't seem to understand the implication of history repeating itself.
If they're private corporations, they don't have governmental exemptions and everybody should get prosecuted accordingly.

That will stop this cold.
Indeed it has changed since it was posted here.
Except you do not own it, you rent it. Most folks who sell domains just pick one up for a few bucks and try to charge a ridiculous fee to transfer it. You are taking a publicly available address and extorting someone who actually intends to use it.
Hey, Sorry I didn't respond earlier. Thanks for the praise! We definitely support more that 100 paying users (we really have no limits). We're still exploring our pricing options but we'll be releasing our larger plans soon. The next plan up will be something like 1000 paying users for $99/month soon.

I have always found it difficult to keep monitor HN for responses to my comments!