skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, is this service service equally available/relevant to civilians on both sides of the conflict, or only one? I don't ask to be judgmental, I recognize that politically/legally it may not even be possible to serve both sides. I just wondered if the automated nature of the service allows for it to be apolitical.
the main point of the article is that these awful things are spreading like herpes.
We all do. But I think the time to fault them for not anticipating this is later. Right now, if the only thing you can contribute is, "They should have been better prepared," I don't see that as particularly helpful.
I'm interested on this as well.
Why are you being secretive about the details? You may never hear back from Twitter support, but in hiding things you may miss ideas, opportunities and resources that HN users can provide to scale your feed in different ways.
Two things happened with the recession.

1. Legal jobs went away.
2. There was a temporary, substantial INCREASE in law school attendance.

You can see the large increase in enrolment just after the recession on this graph:

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_1920w/Boston/2011-2020/2014/07/06...

When the economy went south, law school seemed like a "safe bet". This turned out to be a catastrophic mistake, as it came at the peak of the bubble in law school enrolment. There had never been such a gap between the number of students and the number of legal jobs.

Articles starting appearing circa 2010 that described a nightmare of $160,000 debt and no legal job. As students began to realize the world had changed, the decline began.

Parents are a big part of the problem. The boomers largely haven't caught on that a BA and a JD are no longer the good choices they were back in the 1960s and 1970s.

I'm in LSAT prep and I talk to a lot of pre-law applicants. They're now generally far more aware of what's at stake. But I only talk to the ones who are good at planning – I expect there's a decent amount of students who go into law school without realizing it can ruin their life.

Here on HN, we're in a bubble. Recruiters are a constant complaint. "Ugh, I hate all these people trying to offer me well-paying jobs".

Consider what's it's like to be 26 years old, with a BA and now a JD. You have about $160,000 that cannot be removed through bankruptcy. You have no assets and no marketable skills. You can't get a legal job, for structural reasons. And non-legal employers now give you a wide berth because you're overqualified.

Worse, you did everything you were "supposed" to do. Turns out it was cargo cult advice.

That's the situations thousands of young people find themselves in. Even going for one year and quitting can be crippling. You get $40,000 of non-dischargeable debt for your troubles.

If you happen to be giving career advice, here are the circumstances under which you should go to law school:

1. You have a burning passion to be a lawyer.
2. Said passion is based on actual knowledge of what lawyers do.
3. You can get into a T14 school, OR
4. You can get into a T100 school with a full scholarship, OR
5. You can get into a school very well regarded in the local area where you want to practice, OR
6. You have a legal job more or less in the bag upon graduation, through family, OR
7. You are rich and want to be a lawyer for what prestige it still carries

That's about it. It's a terrible, terrible choice for anyone else.

We need lawyers, and at some point the legal education market will sort itself out I'm sure. Schools will close, people will realize they need to do the math. I expect tuition will drop eventually.

But while the bubble is bursting, potential law students need to exercise extreme caution.
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This website must not have an editor. When I think back to 2005 and 2006, I don't remember the writer being in high school figuring out what to study in college. He should have picked writing.
They really are. It doesn't matter if they're used on websites or in web browsers or in any other context. Time and time again it has been shown that they do nothing to help make functionality obvious and easily accessible, and instead actually make functionality much harder to discover and use.
I'd argue that your argument about capital is correct, except it's not just the 21st century ... it's every century before that. Even in societies that aren't capitalist / democratic / free-market per se, it's the golden rule: the one with gold makes the rules (or, gets what they want). It's not always like that; just most of the time.

I'm not saying that's good or bad; I'm just saying it's like gravity.
What's the actual account you're posting these emergency alerts on? I looked at your @yuvadm account and couldn't see any retweets.

(Side note, I'd perhaps change your Archimedes joke in your Twitter description, given where you are and what you're doing)
SAP (big data) and Germany work together for the World Cup
" Plus, all data outside 0-400 is completely lost. Something with 401 votes looks exactly the same as 2000 votes. "

I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
I have zero connection to the area or the conflict, but I too want to follow the feed.
> a scam and a racket

Can you elaborate? I've heard a lot of people say it's broken or badly designed, but not that it's malicious or intentionally broken.
No, it doesn't.

You appear to believe that any security system that has any failure, ever, indicates "massive systemic problems". I assert that there are no security systems in history that would meet such a standard.

There are an enormous number of sites and certificates out there. Studies have been carried out at scale on attacks on SSL and found that most MITM attacks come from locally installed virus scanners, malware, or company firewalls. Hacked CA's didn't even register. So if you represented the number of bad certs as a percentage it'd probably have a lot of zeros after the decimal point.

That doesn't mean the world should sit on its hands. Although real world studies have been done, requiring all certs to be public will be a massive upgrade.
The whole point of hiring a lawyer is to get customized legal advice or documents that pertain to your situation. If you're happy with using general advice/documents that may not actually fit your needs, you're free not to hire a lawyer.

It's basically the same as the choice between using stock Wordpress or hiring a developer to customize it for you (or to make you a custom CMS), except that the consequences are usually more dire.

Also, some of your examples are a bit odd. I don't know anyone who's hired a lawyer to buy a house or hire a housekeeper/nanny/gardener--is that some sort of weird Silicon Valley practice?
Israel Steps Up Offensive With Deadly Gaza Bombings
As I do understand and empathize with your cause. And trust that I'm not looking for a political argument or the likes. The comment above is a painful cry out towards the absurdity of the situation in an attempt to shed some light on the colossal 'gap' between the worries of both sides..
CA's already have to go through mandatory audits and the procedures they must follow are spelled out.

Unfortunately there's no real procedure you can put in place to prevent hacking, as the NSA discovered to their cost.
I do. I have followed you but am waiting for the reciprocal so that I can DM you. My handle is, unsurprisingly, @jdmichal.
He doesn't put his name on everything. Apparently he's contributed to over a hundred buildings and could have had his name on many of the if he wanted to. I heard that he didn't even want his name on the new dining hall, but someone convinced him (which may be why it's "Arillaga Family").
IMO, HN scales very poorly down to phone sizes. Text does not wrap, so I either get to scroll horizontally, turn my phone sideways, or read 2pt fonts. Interacting with the site isn't any better. It's a gamble whether I will hit the comments link or the article link, and the only way to vote on anything is to pinch to zoom in because the arrows turn sub-pixel on a phone.

In the end, while HN's design is firmly in the utilitarian-but-useful camp on the desktop, I feel it is firmly in the failure camp on phone-sized devices. I rarely interact with HN on my phone because of it.

Edit: And I didn't even mention trying to deal with the comment box on a phone...
Are there even tamperproof FPGA?
The CT approach is a lot more efficient assuming a closed network of pre-registered "miners" (logs, in CT parlance). This works ok for CT because CT does not place such a large emphasis on decentralisation, nor does it need to. Ultimately the power in the SSL system lies with browser and OS vendors, in turn that means only a handful of people really. Having a super fancy ultra-decentralised system that will only be used by a handful of OS services and browsers doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
The bitcoin blockchain doesn't need to contain every SSL certificate. It just needs to contain a SINGLE transaction conducted each day where the comment field contains the hash of a document published by the root authority. That document would be published elsewhere (on the site of the owner of the root certificate) -- the bitcoin blockchain would be used only to provide proof that the document hadn't been changed since it was published.
We can formally add and subtract simplices. Homology is (very roughly) counting holes using the modulus (%) operator with respect to this addition and subtraction.
"eradicated"
It may be worth noting that there are already anti-dementia drugs, but their efficacy is questionable -- especially when administered late in the course of the disease.
Ever since it was found out Brandon Eich contributed $1000 to Prop 8 people decided to quit using Firefox and use something else instead. Even if Eich resigned people still hate Mozilla for being gay-bashing bigots.

I have a lot of friends who tell me they won't use Firefox or anything else from Mozilla because they aren't gay friendly. I should note those friends are not technical but are political experts.
How to setup the perfect LAMP stack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Stolen Tesla Model S crashes, splits into two and bursts into flames
Design for the unshiny
No one in their right mind "ranks" beginner programming courses.
Unfortunately, it caters mostly to the Israeli side, as it is in Hebrew and relies on Hebrew sources of information.

I would very much be interested in helping build a similar system for Palestinians in Gaza, but from past attempts to organize similar cooperations, help is not necessarily wanted.

That being said, I am aware of several Palestinian users in Gaza who do follow this account for various purposes.
The masses have no interest in fiddling with their browser settings. Ultimately the decision makers here are the browser makers (i.e. guys like agl).
It does, but only based on second-hand reports. See my additional response on the sibling thread.
In general, when you come across any sample that's not yours or something whose label you can't read or don't recognize, you don't touch it at all until you can find someone who does. If you can't find anybody, you handle that sample as if it contains poison - even if it's just a long-dead colony.

I assume that the CDC/FDA/NIH have more stringent protocol in place.
What is this? What is the point of it?
I dropped by a local Microsoft store to see machines. They had a Yoga 2 and it looked pretty slick. One thing I liked was the matte screen.

A down side for me with newer, lightweight devices is that often there is no practical way to open them up to change anything.

I have a Thinkpad W500 (WUXGA, yay!) that has hinge issues, so I'm looking for a replacement. The W500 (and I assume other versions of the larger Thinkpads) makes it easy to slide in and out different hard drives, and upgrading memory is easy.

I'd like that in a new machine but it seems to be a feature of workhorse machines that fall short on battery life (as does the W500).
Ways to scale user growth
Sorta.

Kinda.

Quicksort is the algorithm that introductory CS will point you to.

If you want to build code that is life safety critical, say for automotive or aviation, you should not use recursion. You want to have bounded stack consumption. Lower teaching methods that you get in introductory CS can kill people.
Any plans on Clojure support?
To be fair, Goggle's motto isn't "be a force for the good", but "don't be evil".
I checked Mechanical Turk as an example of how to not to price for Newslines, my crowdsourced content site. It seems that most publishers use crowdsourcing as a way to save money, and while that may work for some tasks, you will not get consistent work done.

Rather than crowdsourcing being a way to find cheap writers, content business should see crowdsourcing as a way to find a diverse pool of writers who have different interests or knowledge, who can dip in and out of work, and then pay them fair money for their time.

I pay $1 per post for writers to write 50-100 word posts that follow a very specific format. We provide feedback to the writer to try to make them make money faster. The way I figure it is, if the writer makes money then I can make money. If they stick with you, you don't have to train new people. People won't leave after half a day.

We have already paid out thousands of dollars and our site is growing fast. Writer satisfaction is high. We currently have a waiting list of hundreds of writers wanting to sign up.

http://newslines.org/newslines-rewards/
Is there anything that 97% of economists would agree upon?
I understand the times are critical, and I apologize in advance for giving a suggestion at a bad time like this, but while @support answers you, why not check Faye[1] + HAProxy[2]?

This may not be as convenient as Twitter, but in case the answer from Twitter is negative, you can use these tools to broadcast updates in real time (I assume at this point, scalability is already an issue, and this is why I added HAProxy to the formula).

[1] http://faye.jcoglan.com

[2] http://www.haproxy.org
Sorry, I'm thinking of Etherpad:

http://etherpad.org/

The source code of which is here:

https://github.com/ether

Hackpad is apparently a fork of that:

https://hackpad.com/Whats-the-difference-between-Hackpad-and...
Works for me in FF on Linux.
BBC: Syrian conflict – Key sarin ingredients sold by UK firms
This is horrible.

But you can be sure if the US were launching missles and a Twitter feed were used to warn the targets then the owner of the account would be an enemy of the state.

War is horrible. The internet brings us all closer to it. But you are basically asking an American corporation to supply a war effort with ammunition to your side.
What about the people funding this? After all, they are responsible for making this happen. Also, if we start thinking about all the money everyone could spend better, everyone's guilty of that.
Maybe you could use this handy open source Chrome extension:

https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/

(guess who developed it)
"In the words of Archimedes, give me a long enough lever, and a place to rest it - or I will kill one hostage every hour."

Sure - that will get you priority with Twitter support!
Dollar-Backed Digital Currency Aims to Fix Bitcoin’s Volatility Dilemma
Rather than being specific to IO, I think you're missing an understanding of algebraic data types, and their use in strongly and statically typed languages. The wikipedia entry is a decent place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type
> People in Korea, who typically do have 3 names but who don't usually initialize them...

No, not really. This is a completely wrong interpretation of Korean names. Most of us have two names: family/clan name ("last" name like "Park", "Kim", etc) followed by given name ("first" name like "Chan-Ho" or "Geun-Hye"). The given name typically consists of two parts, but that doesn't mean we have three names.
If you think about it, this falls firmly into the "symbolic gestures" category.

They had nothing to gain or lose from making this into a political statement, so they invited them.

You learn about responsibility and authority when there is something to gain or lose.
Not very surprising. Our recently hired office manager graduated from Law School in 2011. The previous person in that job was a former secretary.
No reason to keep things secret, it's just that the entire content is highly localized (specifically, it's all Hebrew) and wouldn't mean much to non-local users.
This was a great read. I found it particularly interesting that the author came into each encounter 'cold', which is to say without much in the way of additional tooling. They did install a word counter extension but much of their tools were ad-hoc or non-existent.

That suggested that there may be an interesting 'toolware' market for Turkers. For example, document editing; Lets say we build a simple document editing platform (copy editing not typesetting) which includes components that are dropbox like (shared storage), Google docs like etc. And design a workflow around that toolset. So pick a HIT, get a document id, it shows up in your shared storage, use the included tool to edit it, when you're done, click 'done', and have the whole thing resubmit back for evaluation. That might allow you to focus on editing and not get hung up on a bunch of getting it done issues.

Not sure how practical that is, but if there are common Turk workflows it might be useful to build some common tooling for them.
This is why I won't buy another thinkpad after T430 if they don't restore the top buttons for the trackpoint.

I get the feeling that ship has sailed; Lenovo seems to want to make second-best Dell or Apple machines instead of first-rate Thinkpad machines.

I've a few Thinkpad standalone keyboards (all without the trackpad) and I just assume that with whatever my next laptop is I'll end up using one of those external keyboards.

I've even sketched out ideas on how I might modify one so that it can be plopped on top of an existing laptop keyboard without hitting anything.
Nice, I like it. Now, to actually learn the language...
If you only want to be able to resolve against Namecoin, it's possible to build a client that stores only the unspent transaction output set for names and a few dozen recent blocks and full security.
Go ahead, it's @rotternews but be warned it is very high traffic, might want to add it to a list rather than follow, as most of our users do.
There is no "feature" more infuriating or inappropriately named than "traffic calming" by means of timing the lights so that you have to stop every single block. It almost makes me want to drive as dangerously as possible just to spite the policy people who thought that was a good idea.
https://xkcd.com/857/
Whoa, the change happened! My girlfriend and I both think it looks awesome :)

Anyone know if there are plans to add the interactive/javascript examples as well?

EDIT: Had noscript on, everything looks great.
> So, for example, a place where null comes up. When you create a file. Programs that didn't check just threw up on an exception now. It is just as likely that without that option, the code would have just checked for a value, or thrown an error. So... what changed?

What changed is that you are unable to propagate a null-that-shouldn't-be-null value to the rest of the program.

If you have a value V that might be null, and you are supposed to return that value itself (not wrapped in an Option or anything like that, ie a 'nullable type'), all you can really do is: actually return a value of type V, or throw an exception. That's it! (To throw an exception is also something that can be done at any time in most statically typed languages, for any reason whatsoever. Throwing exceptions is usually not a question of the type correctness of a program (maybe it is in the case of checked exceptions?).) You can not give null as an output: you are supposed to give V as the output, not a nullable V. So you know exactly where in your program you are doing something 'unsafely', i.e. where you are not rigorously handling every case of the value of some type. Though 'unsafe' is a bit misleading, since you may very well intend to just throw an exception in the (perhaps deliberately possible) case that a value is null.
7z and xz both use LZMA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz
s/added/currently trying to add/ :-)

For HVM guests I hope that virtio-rng would work as-is (if it could be turned on via the control path). That's definitely worth a look.

For PV guests like Mirage I'm currently plumbing through a Xen PV analogue of virtio-serial by hijacking^Wextending the existing PV console support. Since the backend for that is in qemu already it might be possible to hook up the entropy source (with all the rate limiting etc). I think the trick would be to get the guest to recognise the frontend for what it is -- I imagine the virtio-rng device in the guest presents itself as a magic hardware PCI device and 'just works'.
Do you recall how much was the expansion module?
Yes it's funny, these places are teaching Python for the same reason they taught Java

That's not what I'm seeing at all. What I'm seeing is discussion of specific traits about Python that make it especially suited for a beginner language. And I'm seeing these arguments made over and over and over again, convincingly, in a way that was NEVER done for Java.
Zach here, also from Spark. We're definitely working on next-gen hardware now, haven't selected a final chipset yet.

Our hosted cloud is somewhat different from the open source version, and the differences will grow over time. As an open source company, the question always comes to "how do we make money?" Our open source thesis is to give away basic technology and sell advanced technology. Right now the biggest differences between our hosted cloud and the open source version is scalability; our system is designed to scale horizontally whereas the open source one is a single instance (although it could, of course, be modified). We are still deciding which features that are still in development will be open sourced, and which won't. We've learned from other for-profit open source companies (like MongoDB, for instance), that even after being on the market for years they're still trying to figure out which features to give away and which to sell.
“Weaponized” exploit can steal sensitive user data on eBay, Tumblr, et al
Wow I've gotta say, this looks great.

Something that bugs me is I couldn't copy the code in the upper right to the code "try it" section. I haven't used haskell for 6-12 months, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/N2SdFVq

Regardless of how to fix this, I think something should be changed so this can't be someone's first impression.
Respect the intent to make a tool for peace, not a weapon. Want to point out that "Various purposes" might include the people shooting the missiles seeing if/where they land? These communications might better be conducted via bulk PM?
okTurtles is one of several middleware options that runs on top of Namecoin, implementing the domain record spec. It advocates using someone else's trusted server as a data source, but does not at this time implement any integrity protection for data in transit.

http://www.freespeechme.org/ is a more mature and more secure.
I recommend the IRC channel, the Haskell Cafe and Haskell Beginners mailing lists. People are helpful - talk to them.

I understand the Haskell wikibook is also great at the introductory level.
Don't forget Autodesk's open source 3D printer platform Spark! So you can print the enclosure for your Spark devices with Spark too.
Ah, is it a pre designed theme?
Again, I will not comment on the political aspect of this specific campaign. (Hit my feed to get a sense of my personal opinions if you are truly interested.)

I care about information dissemination and about helping humans on both side of a conflict to have better insight into the chaos that is occurring around them.
Technocrats tend to work well with other technocrats.
Good to know, thanks for the reply. Does this seem to change with instance type?