skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At 280 North we used exit names along 280... woodside.280n.com, pagemill.280n.com, sandhill.280n.com, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_280_(California)#Ex...
I would love to see GitHub actually keeping PP off the site and not putting money in their pockets. I am bit disappointed to see such an innovative and open source company not directly supports one of the most shady corporations around.
No. Remember that China is a large place. It is not as homogenous as is sometimes portrayed. Cultural differences in China occur by region, by class, by ethnic minority, by age, and by other factors. So blanket statements about China tend to be rough generalization. Bragging about spending 1000 yuan on something that actually costs 100 yuan might work in some parts of China, but spend time with a different type of people in a different part of China and you risk sounding like a pompous jerk. Which is also true of a lot of western societies, come to think of it.
Does anyone know if he will still run electoral-vote.com?
Are you registered as a non-profit organization in the USA?

> If any of you guys would be willing to show your parents the link if they're interested in donating

Note that most (though certainly not all!) users on this site are adults.
I find it hard to believe that apple couldn't make additional colors if they wanted. I don't think it's a lack of technological know how. They could pick that up without acquiring a entire additional company.

Limited colors on the iphone or ipod make sense. For the most part, it's an item that stays in your pocket. I'm sure some people care about additional design choices, but most people solve this by buying a case (which they'd do anyway).

Beats, due to the fact that they are headphones, are worn as head gear. Yes, they could have stuck with a few simple colors, but it's easier to justify lots of options when people will actually see your user wearing the product. This gives your user an incentive to want a more unique design and be willing to pay for it.
You have to login to see a blog? Forget that.
Or you can buy turmeric + BioPerine from a reputable US based company with extensive metal testing to make sure there's no contamination, like DrVita (where I happen to be employed and can confirm an obsession with testing for heavy metals)
Personhood: A Game for Two or More Players
INAL (but I play on one daytime TV): Their whole claim aginst TOR amounts to:

pp. 2-3

"According to its website, TOR "was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications." The TOR website further states that their products and services are used by individuals "to keep websites from tracking them and their family members, or to connect to news sites, instant messaging services, or the like when these are blocked by their local Internet providers." TOR also provides services that permit users, such as Pinkmeth, to "publish web sites and other services without needing to reveal the location of the site." [...] It is clear from the TOR website that TOR is knowingly assisting websites such as Pinhneth in committing torts against Texas resident..."

p. 5

"However, unscrupulous Internet service companies such as TOR offer "private" or "anonymous" domain name hosting services that allow criminals such as Pinkmeth and its users to escape accountability for their actions. TOR even advertises that with their service "nobody would be able to determine who was offering the site, and nobody who offered the site would know who was posting to it." [...] many unscrupulous companies offer services that allow illegal websites such as Pinkmeth to remain anonymous and difficult for authorities to shut down. Indeed Pinkmeth's Twitter feed advertises its website as being a website "where your state laws don't apply.""

pp. 8-9

"The specific object to be accomplished by the conspiracy was the publication pornographic images of Plaintiff (and other women) on the Pinkmeth website in such a mannner so as to prevent its operators and users from being held civilly and criminally accountable for this unlawful behavior."

This seems to be conflating a few things. The fact that "revenge porn" sites exist outside of anonymous content distribution networks like TOR shows that anonymity wasn't a required component in the tort allegedely commited by Pinkmeth. There are many cases involving sites like that being taken down from public hosting providers. The fact that TOR could allegedly allow defendant to escape prosecution does not equate to a real conspiracy to assist defendant in escaping prosecution. A person hosting a costume party isn't automatically responsible for a murderer taking advantage of the anonymity to commit a crime, without some evidence of collusion.
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Bitcoin goes legit, hires lobbying group to go to Washington
I have to agree somewhat with this comment. In particular, is handling 60 SKU's really a huge problem with technology and management nowadays?

It's a pity there's so much focus on small details like that and the color selection, because that's really not the main point, which the article does touch on - the two companies understand and heavily influence the consumer market and fashion, so the partnership makes sense. It's that simple.

By the way, Apple was the one who made the single-look product cool, with the iPhone. It's so cool that its own colorful 5C isn't selling very well (by its standards, of course) [1]. Restricting its color choices was not only because of the difficulty in doing so, it was a deliberate design choice. [Edit, based on parent comment: And getting people to buy overpriced cases to customize instead? Genius!]

1. Google "iPhone 5C sales". Observe articles calling it, e.g., "Failure Flop" and "dismal."
iCracked (YC W12) now repairs and purchases Samsung devices
Using a deterministic ID for machines is definitely the way to go.

We actually studied this for a while and MAC address is a pretty universal ID that works virtually anywhere. We use the smallest physical non-zero MAC address in case of multiple NICs. We considered using chassis or baseboard serial numbers but it gets too vendor specific.
But if you are upset about an organization collecting information to use in some way that may be other than your best interest, the two are pretty equal.

Gestapo. Stasi.
Will this be able to save credit cards on the device so the user doesn't need to re-enter their credit card every single time they need to make a purchase?
we use these primarily but have used others including estimote since 2013...

https://www.gimbal.com/gimbal-proximity-beacons

less than 5 dollars each for series 10 and a security model that folks should seriously look into IMO...or u can use iBeacon configuration.

Originally by Qualcomm so u know the hardware is solid.
An improved Chrome extension for browsing code on GitHub
Hybrid Cloud Management
Why The Poor Are Poor (2012)
Looks like it wasn't ready for the load. It was working when it was new.
Or... maybe the reason behind the acquisition has more to do with Beats' subscription streaming service than hardware.
HN comments include tons of interesting, original thoughts; However in all the time I have been lurking here, there has been no top comment that has elicited nary a chortle from me.
Makes sense. Also, I just realized, is if it's viable was there any opportunity for exposure.
Grunt-include-source: Include your sources into your HTML files automatically
Side note: I really wish someone would really explain this to Bitcoin people. Bitcoin is cool but it isn't an anonymity tool. Every single transaction is permanently in the ledger, and combined with IP snooping, big data, machine learning, and a bit of gumshoe police work the potential for tracing things is incredible.
Does WordPress Encourage Poor Programming?
> Dropping out vowels isn't saving you anything.

Except the consistency thing I was talking about. In one of previous job at a fortune 100 company had to have a consistent naming scheme for everything in the DC for whatever reason that predated me. 3 letter production environment, followed by a 4 digit number which described all kinds of things about what apps / environments ran on the host.

Also having fixed with fields for hosts is very valuable when you are writing scripts to parse data on hostnames, especially when you are scaling up to tens / hundreds of thousands of hosts you begin to appreciate consistency.
Do you use a tiling WM?
That's a good point about dropping vowels. Typing 'prod' feels more natural than typing 'prd'. But even 'ssh' and 'prod' are abbreviations. It's not the case that you never want to abbreviate, even for host names.
Do Alibaba also have prices for apples and oranges?
Here's the list of what's new since version 9 of Mathematica:
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/
I meant like TIE fighter. :) A la jet sims.
I think it's incorrect, but I don't think it's "outrageous." The percentage of Tor traffic that involves unlawful activity is, I'd bet, far higher than for the other technologies involved. Moreover, this particular very invasive violation of privacy did not just incidentally involve Tor, but was facilitated by the unique properties of the Tor network. It's like guns: you have a right to have a gun, guns have lots of legitimate uses that must be protected, but gun manufacturers and dealers don't get to hold themselves above all scrutiny.
I've read cinnamon might help with diabetes too? Would that be the same mechanism?
While I can see the point that research from China is harder to verify in some cases, I think the statement "Papers coming out of China and Taiwan need to be regarded skeptically" goes a bit far. China has strengths in some fields, and even if research institutes in China are of lower average quality than their western counterparts, there remain some that are still of high quality. Are you forgetting that Hong Kong is part of China, and has research links to top universities in the Chinese mainland? Well Hong Kong provides the example of HKUST, a high-quality university which I would claim provides a leading example for research coming out of Asia.
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Peer evaluations for coding projects on Khan Academy
If we're naming racks to be serviceable, seems easier to have numeric rows, dash, alphanumeric cabinets, dash, numeric racks. 3-K-7 seems extremely better than disney-snowwhite-dopey. And your labels should hold the breadcrumb: [3] (row), [3-K] (cabinet), [3-K-7] (rack). The other benefit is not having to guess where these things are (or having to dictate this very same information to land someone near "dopey").
Then it turns into this:

x = []
for word in words:
for letter in word:
x.append(letter)

Which in addition to being far more verbose and less readable, is also less efficient.
This article is right on time with me as I'm working to figure out if the gamification in our internal website is really worth it.

Here is the premise: Anyone can create an event and based on the type and duration its assigned a score. Once the person attends the event they are given a secret keyword to prove they were actually at the event. Then they go back online and enter the keyword and get points.

The idea of the points is to use them to enter contests for prizes and such, hopefully making attending events more enticing.

I'm not so sure the gamification is worth it. If the event is good enough it should warrant attendance based on a persons interest. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
It seems like a majority of the tweets on there were pulled in by keywords, not just hashtags - probably to get seed content.
This is an interesting take but I strongly doubt it's what motivated Apple to make the purchase.
I understand. I share your feeling quite a bit. Upvoted you for clear and friendly discussion on a subject that generally evokes a lot of emotion.

I wouldn't argue that the purchase of the car was a good financial decision. As a side note, I don't think buying a C-class Mercedes is EVER a good financial decision. The reactions to this article (or that OP experienced in the narrative) are a testament to the success of Mercedes establishing themselves as a luxury brand even though they sell econo-box line vehicles (top post right now puts this pretty well; this is a symbol of wealth, not actually much of an asset).

I think the house was a worse decision, as it implies a longer confidence in earning potential; the car could have been paid off much more quickly, and we don't really know their earning power at the time of purchase (though I doubt it'd help the point of them being fiscally responsible).

I think a big part of this article is trying to cast an empathetic light on people that end up in tough financial situations BECAUSE of bad financial decision, despite having come from opportunity. When considered clearly, even those impoverished that did not come from opportunity could be saddled with the blame of 'bad financial decisions', but just have many more justifications (that are more easily empathized with) for making the decisions they did.

At some point or another, though, you are following the same mindset of the 'root beer police' in the line at the store, written about in the article. You are drawing a line saying 'you purchasing THAT is not responsible', and you feel justified in doing so because they are using public help.

That's sort of the debate at hand here. Is the use of public funds an invitation, or justification, for judgement from others on your consumption? I believe that it is; if you are going to take money from the government, one cost you suffer will be unyielding judgement from others on what you do or do not buy.

My point: not selling my old(er) Mercedes in lieu of taking food-stamps while I find another job might ACTUALLY be the best financial decision I can make, for a number of reasons. Whether or not I feel morally reprehensible about this is my own business, really; the assistance programs have their own requirements for eligibility and if I meet them, I meet them. Despite this, it is an invitation for judgement in the cultural climate in which we live, and that's just how that is.
One needs to weigh the balance of probabilities: what is the probability that the defense attorney is mischaracterizing the prosecutions demands, vs the probability that the DA is actually demanding a forced medical procedure unless the kid pleads guilty?

Given the evidence of past police misconduct in the narrow area of forced medical procedures as a form of extra-legal coercement, the benefit of the doubt here has to go to the defendant.
I was just going to comment on this, then saw your post.

When we cook, our muscle memory is to add black ground pepper when adding turmeric.

We also favor cinnamon because it is anecdotally supposed to be a good anti-inflammatory agent - if this is not true, at least it tastes good with many foods.
There are different extremes. I've dealt with plenty of security admins whose religous adherence to the cults of compliance and network segmentation make it impossible to get anything done.
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They don't sell the house. According to the article, they cannot sell it at a price high enough to satisfy the lienholders. Rather than shouldering the entire burden of a bad property investment alone, they can force the bank to take some of it.

If you have negative equity in a property that has negative cash flow, you really should get rid of it as fast as humanly possible, by any means at your disposal, no matter how much beans and rice you typically eat in a month.
In Python 3 there's the nonlocal keyword to deal with the scoping thing.

The default arguments thing is worse than a lot of the stuff Python 3 corrected.
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Name it, I've used it. I prefer full-screen, one-task-at-a-time if I can have it, no matter what you may like. Neither side is wrong (or doing it wrong). I just don't want the stuff I'm not using right now to be there. Period.
What is the minimum (useful!) level of trust for a certificate? If someone like Google handed out free (leaf) certs using the domain ownership verification process they use for Google Apps [1], is that any less useful than what other CAs do today?

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/60216
They can work together already on everything pertinent to an attack. Nothing stops me from publishing/sharing a log file from a machine that was DDoS'd with IP addresses, etc. Nothing stops me from sharing any evidence of an actual attack of some kind.

All this really does is enable them to act as informers on their customers without liability.
I don't get it, why would she off one of her money maker clients? I can only speculate that either she is a serial killer and this isn't her first rodeo or she was contracted and the rabbit hole goes a bit deeper.
There's this narrative that Apple's lack of design choice has helped them, by keeping things consistent. White headphones were, for a while, almost exclusively iPod earbuds. If you saw someone rocking a white headphone cable, you knew what was in their pocket. They've branched out a little, with colors for select devices, but for the most part their visual choices are very limited.

Beats seems like they've done an excellent job of offering a wide selection while still keeping brand consistency and recognizability. In this regard, I think the article's speculation makes sense.
Mechanize is a core part in quite a few of my projects lately and the fact that it hasn't been modified in over 2 years has been very worrisome.

There are lots of edge cases out there on websites. Mechanize has built up years of fixes and workarounds for these, I hope that MechanicalSoup can learn from these the easy way rather than waiting to make the same mistakes again.

I also hope that this repo grows into a bigger community of support, not just one person contributing (who could leave / get bored at any time). Looking forward to following this!
The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy
Very interesting idea! Thanks, I'll explore this.
This is an impressive release.

GeoGraphics is amazing example of the power of integration between domains. Built-in data about the world, with semantic integration into graphics as well as data analysis. This is way beyond what any existing mapping solution has delivered.

The geometry stuff is also amazing and very useful for generative design and "making"
> This could probably have been avoided in a country where prostitution is legal.

How so? I didn't see anything about this that appeared to have been enabled or amplified by the illegality of prostitution. A legal prostitute could still bring heroin and purposefully cause an overdose.
I haven't read TAoCP. I am reading them. I have been for years. Every time I open one up, I learn something. I am also always confused. That's what I love about the work. It reminds me that this stuff is hard - so hard that Knuth hasn't finished learning the subject even after 50 years spent writing a 12 chapter book about compilers.

What makes them great books is Knuth's ability to tackle writing at multiple levels of sophistication. As I learn more maths new portions of each section become accessible. As I learn more about data structures and algorithms a similar thing tends to happen.

I haven't been in a rush to 'finish' them. Neither has Knuth. I read them because I enjoy reading them.
#2 is called this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle. This is also mentioned in Jordan Ellenberg's book How Not to Be Wrong, and has a similar passage with your explanation above. I mention the book as much because it's a great read.
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This is an excellent comment.

Looking at your posting history, I can see that you often take the time to write thoughtful comments. Please keep it up.
So basically, you need to short circuit one of Docker's core features to get decent performance. I like it.
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Using Docker and Jenkins to run GitHub tests
He is not talking about the userland, he's talking about the kernel structure, mirco vs. monolithic.
RFC6394 and RFC6698 are the useful bits here. The problem is they don't really offer much except a minimization of the attack footprint; instead of attacking one of 650 CAs you're attacking the dns root servers, which aren't impenetrable. The protocol itself has numerous flaws and basically nobody is implementing DNSSEC.

If you combined it with a CA system it would potentially increase security for a given domain and DNSSEC users, and add onto that a Convergence-style decentralized system and you get another layer. Of course, that is a hell of a lot of extra complication just to prevent a state actor from easily circumventing your HTTPS connection, so I doubt anyone will go for it.
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In the case of a debit, say, is the account receiving the money always the ODFI? Can you do an ACH transfer from one client’s account at bank A to another client’s account at bank B, with you using a third financial institution to process this?
Ask HN: Does a discrete time signal have a formula or one definite equation?
Suppose we had a heart rate signal, can we describe it as one linear function; y = f(x) ? Or extract the function via MATLAB, for instance?
NY Reaches Price Limit Deal With Car Service Uber
What makes you think a used Merc is worth anything?
Thank you on all points, and I agree with what you've said.

I kind of wish I had a "parenthetical comment" option. "This is not on topic, but if someone else feels like looking into the parentheticals, they can turn them on."

Then again, isn't that what reddit was invented for? :-)

Have a pleasant, fun, and engaging day!