skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, despite the common perception that the Planck length is the the grid-scale on which the world is quantized, or the smallest measurable distance, or various such things, the Planck length is not actually known to have any particular physical significance; it's just the length that falls out of combining various other constants of significance. It's not unreasonable to guess that it will eventually turn out to have some significance in itself, but if there is any, it is as of yet unknown.
It depends on the type of screen you're using and whether it's actually black - rbg(0,0,0) or just dark. In some cases, yes, it saves energy, some not.
This is exactly what popped in my head when I read this headline. The camera angle from the bullet is pretty hilarious, with people diving out of the way and what not.
It's insulting if you play it right.
We are a family of 3, plan on another one soon. We have a Toyota Auris (Corolla over in the states). It will last us many more years (unless it fully breaks down) and it is more than enough. Sure, would it be nice to have more space for when vacation comes and need to bring a few more things, sure.. but not 1000 bucks per month worth. We are now a 1 car family, but when we had two, the other one was a 10 year old Toyota Yaris that whoever didn't had to drive our kid used to go to work/errands.

As someone else in the thread mentioned, this isn't the "America Dream", this is the "I want shit and have fun dream".
Good point. I agree that's a possibility that instead of being a fresh "discovery" it becomes old news (if not reported right away). [1] But I'm wondering whether if that were the strategy it wouldn't make more sense to provide easier to understand (for layman) information? It was hard for me to follow from the visual I can't see any reporter simply writing about it or getting interested from what appears there. In other words it doesn't look very "sexy" visually. And presents as if it's in a very basic form (but then maybe that is exactly your point..)

[1] Obama did this with revelations of cocaine usage. Once it was out there it wasn't a big juicy story to present. Media likes scoops, exclusives not just digging up old info (ala some HN posts) of things that perhaps people missed (unless there is an angle that they can work).

I guess here is the thing about old news. People must assume that if something were said in 2012 and nobody made a fuss about it then it's because it's not a big deal.
maybe they were not authorized to drink on the job
I think it's a good goal to work towards. Second, it's one less thing to worry about. You could easily get by on half of that if your American Dream is different.

As a software developer, I've always dreamt of making enough money, or getting funded to the point where I can make my own software.

Recruiters often remind me that programmers are a dime a dozen, so chasing projects can be frustrating.

My 'workaround' to a lack of funding is to develop my first game (that I designed) on the weekends. The only drawback is it takes a lot longer.

The sweetest advantage to weekend software projects? I can focus on making a game that I know will be fun and sell well. That aspect has always been out of my control for my previous projects, where the focus is creating another's vision of an app or game.

You can check out my apps at bensapps.neocities.org for previous client work.
Computable, IPython (+ SciPy, matplotlib, etc) for iPad
As with nearly all laws, it varies by state. Some states have no statute of limitations for rape, some have 20 years, and some have as low as 5 years apparently.
Is there any kind of connection privacy on cjdns? I'm not too familiar. With labels/studios spying on trackers/peers to go after downloaders, it's important to have that added security.
> It's not economically feasible to give everyone state of the art sniper rifles like this.

The US has ~2M active duty / reserve military members.[1] The SR25 is a common choice for 'sniper' rifles in the military and costs about $5K new and kitted out. If this state of the art rifle costs 5x the typical rifle, it would cost $25B to outfit half of our current military with these weapons.

The US spends over $650B per year on our military[2], so that $25B would only represent 4% of our annual budget.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-bl...

I think it only saves energy on CRT screens, which is not popular these days.
The site works best with foursquare, but you can link it with lots of other social media accounts to import data
You've submitted the source link three times in the last 2 days, and you deleted-then-resubmitted this particular submission with the two=two suffix.
Question: is there any out-of-the-box product/technology that isn't Genius that allows me to annotate text on my site? ala Medium, with user login, etc.?
That is completely wrong. They are referring to RICE pasta. Not WHEAT pasta.
Haha, no, I'm actually supporting your method. I was responding broadly to the general feeling I'm getting from the thread of "JSON is better than Markdown for a raw CV format".
I played a ton of Bards Tale 1 on my Apple 2. I don't think I ever passed it, though. For me, after seeing Bard's Tale I could never get into Ultima--the 2d top down graphics were just too poor compared to Bard's Tale's 3d view of the towns and dungeons.

And I definitely remember mapping out all the dungeons and Skara Brae on graph paper. Eventually I borrowed the hint book from a classmate and photocopied the whole thing.

Later, when my friends were playing Ultima V, I was playing Dungeon Master on my Amiga. I just couldn't get over the graphical difference. I never understood Ultima...
What? Assuming 4 people eating 3 meals/day, $1000/month comes out to less than $3 per meal. That actually seems cheap to me.
"Not pleasant to deal with" is a lot better than "gross" :)
I've actually never met someone who was offended or disgusted by it, excluding those who are socially conservative or religious. That may also be due to the fact that I'm still in the 18-25 age group though.
I did phrase that terribly. What I meant (and failed) to convey was that the most authoritative source of info on this topic was a post to a relatively obscure LLVM-related mailing list, rather than any sort of official announcement. However, I shouldn't have said "lack of transparency", because the devs could have chosen to not make any sort of public statement at all.
Why OAuth is broken [sildes]
World Cup: Run Your Own Soccer Ball CFD Analysis in the Cloud
They only save energy if you are using a CRT.
Yeah - I think Parse is much cheaper
Interactive Documentary on Modern Love and Relationships
what remaining 60%?
Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years
author here: I do not advocate using any of the techniques, please don't use it, it's terrible and will give your users headaches! I'm against ressource "protection" on the web, what's on the internet should be fully consumed by users of it! The article describes just a few experiments I set up to see how far someone could go if it WAS important ( "for a few minutes, let's assume things on the web should be protected…" ). Thanks for the feedback so far!
That system is impressive. The website has a slightly more explanatory video - I wasn't quite sure what I'd seen from the DARPA link.

So basically the gun has a LIDAR for range, IMU for gun attitude and a Linux computer inside. You tag your target and it will use some kind of machine vision algo to track it even if it moves. You hold down the trigger and it will automatically fire when you put the gun in the right place. It's not truly guided like the parent, so if it's a windy day you're still likely to miss, but under calm conditions you can pretty much guarantee a perfect shot.

http://tracking-point.com/
In fact, the American Dream is the opposite of modest.
I did not call that scenario the American Dream, but it is a scenario of people fighting to achieve it.
Yeah I guess I spoke too soon... I've left the tab open on two machines and have continued playing.
he probably still has vested privileged shares of some sort. they'll definitely get diluted with further rounds but he'll still own part of the company.
Interesting to compare and contrast the approach taken by libreSSL and agl's BoringSSL (my own private fork is in the process of being replaced by BoringSSL, because it's not as hacky as my solutions).

I think I prefer BoringSSL's cmake/make process, because OpenSSL's build system is simply horrible, I've never liked it. But it doesn't do shared libraries yet, so I'm having to take the .a files and link them by hand (well, by script anyway). Not optimal, but better than having to rebase my own patches so frequently, and it's only a test box.

I love the sheer amount of renovation-via-demolition libreSSL's doing. OpenSSL really does have a terrifying amount of #if 0, crufty ciphers and code no-one ever wants to use.

By the way, you may as well take RC4 out: it's about to get another significant result...
I simply went to http://www.patrick-wied.at/talks/image-protection/demos/cat....
I was confused for a moment on what you meant, but I believe you were referring to the 'Stormwind Champion'.

In the future Naxx release, they will implement a queue to keep track of the timestamp that each creature enters the board. All effect that triggers/depletes from a 'mass death' will take place in the order of each card's timestamp, earliest first.

So for the 2nd example, it depends on which creature came into play first. If Young Priestess, then Imp Master doesn't lose health and you get a 1/1 imp. If Imp Master first, then Imp is spawned and gets buffed but the master dies.
Thailand Won't Make You Happy
Not to mention it's just a breath of fresh air design-wise (when executed well), unlike the massive sea of indistinguishably homogenous 'light-themed' sites...

EDIT: I can't believe people seriously downvoted you for that simple comment. The pedantic negativity this community is filled with is ridiculous sometimes.
>"I'm surprised by how popular it is."

So were the creators: http://fusion.net/modern_life/story/cards-humanity-creator-p...
> A five-seat sedan would work just as well, and would result in expenses of about $3000 per year ($10k amortized over a ten-year operating lifetime, plus $2k per year in fuel).

(1) automobile costs include more than amortized purchase costs and fuel (such as maintenance) -- especially if you are going to keep it operational for a decade.
(2) what 5 seat sedan has a $10K new price?

> For example, the author's chosen goal for college savings is higher than the cost of a four-year degree at Stanford (according to the stanford.edu Net Price Calculator) and is far more than tuition costs at a normal school.

The savings target for college savings shouldn't be compared against the current cost, but against the expected cost at the time the student will be attending college.
I think this is the research they're referring to:

http://devd.me/papers/pwdmgr-usenix14.pdf

(Note that this is a USENIX paper, which makes the "we let them publish it" comment sort of weird).

The bookmarklet attack isn't subtle; page 8 explains how they were able to set up a malicious site that could obtain Lastpass (say) Dropbox credentials.
A sitcom?
> When did it get to be redefined as "I need a ... private education"

$2000/year per child is not a private education, that's consumables, school trips, maybe some educational activities during the 3 months of summer when public schools don't run. Child care would easily cost that per child per month if both parents are working.
Slightly unrelated, but does all of this recent github hacking for blogs/books/etc remind anyone else of myspace?
As the throwaway account mentioned, this issue is handled by state law.

In the case that I was referring to, the law under which the person was convicted also registered him as a sex offender, so neither path would've avoided that. Which is as it should be.

Furthermore, apart from what the male-dominated herd wisdom of the internet would like to believe, people don't just get convicted of rape because someone makes a baseless accusation. If you got convicted of rape, it's just like any other criminal case, and that means there was a solid, evidence-backed case against you, and a jury of your peers decided that you were conclusively guilty.

I'm not saying that a false conviction never happened. But if you're someone like the sicko with the throwaway account, filming your every sexual encounter because you're afraid someone's going to accuse you of rape, you're probably not approaching your sexual encounters with a healthy attitude.
Palo Alto Considers a Net-Zero Growth Vision
Let's test that theory of yours.

We'll halve the car expense to $6000 a year and drop all extra expenses (vacation, entertainment, eating out, cable/internet.) And let's drop our taxes by 50%, since we are earning less, and our savings entirely since, really, who saves anything anyway, right?

My math pegs that right around 70k a year, or about 20k more than the median household income.

Yeah, it's totally entitlement that's killing the american dream.
I didn't downvote you but it's likely not disagreement -- HN just dislikes comments that don't add value to the conversation. A message with an "I agree" or "That sucks" by itself doesn't contribute to the dialogue.
It doesn't work here. If the yeast had really helped, the headline would have been the same.
Working for a major library that does a lot of digitization work for external partners like museums and art galleries, I deal with this a lot.
Our solution usually involves (in addition to the obvious approaches mentioned in the beginning of the article) not sending out full-sized images but only tiles, severely rate-limiting the API (heavy users can contact us for an exception) and displaying a discreet watermark with the origin.
It's very frustrating as a developer, especially given the fact that 90% of the material is public domain anyways...
If I went from washing cars in Bangladesh to washing cars in the US, I would call it my American Dream. For a lot of immigrants, simply being in the US is the American Dream. And as long as their quality of life keeps improving, the Dream lives on.
Using ownership of a resource to give an incentive for preservation and long-term thinking has its roots at least as far back as Armen A. Alchian.[1] Ostrom's achievement was finding that many cultures had alternative solutions, and that these solutions were very effective.

I am sorry to say that I do not have the statistics that you are looking for.

[1] http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PropertyRights.html
I dont think "opposite" is the right word.

It just means you have the opportunity to prosper based on talent and achievement. It never guaranteed prosperity individually.
Noted, thank you for the warning. I will not delete/re-submit moving forward. Just really felt this post had some legs :(
I feel Economist is just bringing Apple into this discussion of the trouble Japanese electronics firms in order to attract more clicks. Apple makes no TV, display panel, fridge, DVD player, or dishwasher.

The real reason the Japanese electronic firms are in trouble is not because of Apple but Samsung/LG. IMO, it's not because Samsung/LG really excelled but because the Japanese firms stumbled/stagnated.

I remember reading last year or so that during a quarter (or was it a year?) Samsung's profit was bigger than the profit of top NINE Japanese electronic firms combined (including Sony). If you knew anything about the bitter history between the 2 nations, it is pretty astounding.
I was just about to write exactly this in reply to a comment above until I kept reading, saw this comment and saw you'd already expressed it succinctly.
It depends on what you consider groceries I suppose. Are you only counting food and drink? Where do you put toiletries, cleaning and general household supplies?

$1k/mo does seem a bit high, but not unreasonable. We do a lot of budget shopping (Costco, coupons, generics, almost no organics, and usually split a side of beef with friends). Meat has gotten really expensive, and I would definitely consider that to be part of the American Dream.
I loved all the Ultima games. But, as others have said; I can't imagine putting in that much time today. [Because I'm old with responsibilities and can't spend 8-10 hours a day on a game for weeks at a time].

A few others mentioned cloth maps; so at the risk of tooting my own horn; here is the "Jewel" of my collection; a cloth map for the First Ultima game, apparently only released in Japan and very rare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kMprGHococ
The basis of American freedom isn't some libertarians with rifles. Its the fact that the U.S. military consists of poorly-paid kids who care more about family and community than they do about abstract ideas. That and the fact that the military and its arsenal is physicislly distributed over numerous states. More powerful military technology makes us more free, not less. It just means it takes fewer people to break ranks from an oppressive government and effectively oppose it.

The biggest threat is well paid mercenaries. It always has been.
On the Prehistory of QWERTY
I imagined the final scene from Wanted (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QADr4hVKs3Y
> If he had any shred of self-respect or honor, he would be vigorously defending his reputation by whatever means he saw fit.

Um, isn't that exactly what he's doing with his blog post? He says straight out that the accusation is false. That's the means he sees fit.
Fascinating, I thought it was the finned bullet but this doesn't seem to be that. There was an interesting, if somewhat forgettable, movie staring Tom Selleck called 'Runaway' which posited "tracker" bullets and use the of quad copters for remote surveillance.

I expect the next step will be fabrics that fluoresce in the visible spectrum when hit by IR or UV laser light to help warn people they are being 'designated.'
Douglas Adams already covered this:

One in a Million chances happen 9 times out of 10.
"...They were thus celebrating something that imposed no impediment whatsoever on disclosure of these materials. As usual for the U.S. and U.K. security services, then, their behavior was as inept as it was thuggish."

So not only are they ready to pretty much break any laws they choose, for good measure they use thuggish intimidation as well, all the while being inept.

Lovely
> It just means you have the opportunity to prosper based on talent and achievement.

No, it doesn't. From the earliest articulations, it involves both having wealth and having opportunity to further that wealth without barriers of class.

> It never guaranteed prosperity individually.

It doesn't guarantee anything, because its an common individual aspiration (hence the word "Dream" in "American Dream"), not a covenant.
There was an ealier story in new about pagefair cleaning 600k in funding. I idled slightly and read their FAQ's while waiting for a tests bench to get set up.

It's interesting, I imagine they'll be sucessful, and it will ultimately drive up hosts blocking again (I do this, hate no script, I like my website's shiny chrome).
how about we imagine a world where neither accused rapists nor women in tech were harassed? that seems like the ideal we should be aiming for, not trying to belittle the case of one group just because another is in a similar situation.
Not sure how major, major will be.
for me it was primarily about the technical challenge of trying to prevent a screen shot in a web browser.

Indeed, it would be great if Mozilla did work against those techniques. I really don't like websites that implement them...
No, no-one except the paid employees are paid. I mean, I suppose you could say that we're all getting duped into providing value to a company, but I truly believe in the strength of the Rap Genius mission, and I don't think that that mission is irreconcilable with a for-profit company either—look at StackOverflow, for example. They too are very heavily community dependent, and have many contributors that don't get paid, but still provide the backbone of the site.
Another thing for killing. Just what the world needed.
SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels
having by working and achieving, not by being given
There have not been any case studies that have empirically demonstrated this to be true. If that is your basis for evaluating my statements then I cannot support my claim in a manner that you would find satisfactory.

I would however, anecdotally highlight the progression of social services from places of privacy to places of publicity. One could argue that sites like "The Well" were the original social networks but they did not grow (whether by choice is of course a matter for debate). Over time, each successive social startup defaulted to a more open stance and scaled an order of magnitude in users with each step. The trend suggests that all things being equal, users will say they want privacy but want the features publishing and syndication provides (voting purely with their registrations and advertising value).

I agree that privacy has value, but I would argue that the anecdotal evidence suggests that users want less private services (and yes I'm aware that correlation is not causation, but I think this observation is apt). This is not law or dogma but rather a thought and I'm sorry if it was communicated poorly previously.
There are lots of arguments for supporting users who have javascript turned off, accessibility and SEO being two of the more common ones. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/149021/should...
It goes out of sync, better find another source.
And draft a lucky few hundred thousand when the "need" arises. :)
How the CIA Partnered With Amazon and Changed Intelligence
Just an FYI - 'select over' doesn't work on iOS Safari.
FDA does not plan to regulate medical device data systems (MDDS)
> HN is well-known for its history of misogyny

this is a completely unfalsifiable statement, the standard stock-in-trade of people on the internet promulgating a specific political agenda.
I mean I haven't seen releases of libjingle anymore.
Oh, that guy, interesting. You're saying he doesn't actually directly know the person?

He has a wannabe "Youtube celebrity" channel where feminism is a main topic. I am going to go ahead and say it. Whatever his motivations for writing this, by injecting himself into the middle of it he can now benefit financially off of this.
So, an audited port of openssl comes out and the discussion centers around:

1. why CVS sucks and the openbsd team should spend 3 months doing nothing but reworking their development processes so they can use git like all the cool ruby hackers.

2. Lack of formality in the release announcement

3. Choice of font

wow.
To maintain a police state you need mass surveillance and informants. Secret police make you disappear long before your armed rebellion starts and your neighbors will be too scared to get involved or are the informants who turned you in. Flooding the streets with police isn't needed, along with informants they can always work with gangs like Assad does to act as street enforcement. The state's only cost is looking the other way while trafficking goes on and paying a network of snitches in every community.
wow this is amazing. But how did they do it?
That... was the parent comment.
If the yogurt + yeast mixture had a noticeable effect then it would have been interesting to tease apart which component was responsible, but since it didn't I think it was fine to leave it out.
yes, women can be falsely accused of rape and other horrible things, because they too are capable of rape and other horrible things.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=female+...

i'm guessing the respondant didn't even notice my use of gender neutral nouns.
Also I don't think anyone's proposing giving everyone these. A couple of hundred could make quite a difference.
Show HN: Social Login Rails- GitHub