skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the original in Russian?

[edit: Apparently not, I wasn't aware Nabokov wrote English as well as Russian. Some relevant links:

"On Discovering A Butterfly"
by Vladimir Nabokov May 15, 1943:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1943/05/15/1943_05_15_026_T...

[ edit3: sadly behind a paywall ]

A (somewhat inaccurate, but interesting) commentary:

http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.no/2004/04/on-discovering...

edit2: Almost forgot: clearly the original uses "label" intentionally. Funny how the verse in isolation seems to more directly reference nature (along the lines of Blake's Tyger! Tyger! -- while clearly that's not the (main/only) intended reading. ]
It's definitely in the USB 1.1 spec, (with some verbiage that excessive current draw on one port is not allowed to affect other ports) though they may have relaxed it later. I have several old Belkin hubs that will terminate (with prejudice) power to any port that draws over 550 mA, until you physically power-cycle the hub. This is annoying for obvious reasons, especially on 7-port hubs with beefy power supplies, so most hub manufacturers don't do that anymore.
Make sure you're using the right journal_mode for SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/draft/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode
Thanks for this! I couldn't find one without it wanting me to pay when I looked in the middle of last week. I don't do native iOS/cocoa so I felt it'd be kind of skeezy to have work pay for it.
Can somone post the text of the puzzle. I seem to be getting the same error " you can't take.."
The 4 Levels of Freedom For Software Developers
Why should we even have extensions in the first place?

Ideally the filetype should be determined from metadata or scanning the header.

(Speaking as someone who's had to fix image file processing bugs because the original coder trusted file extensions to be correct.)
As a read-only database, sqlite doesn't have too many limits, since the storage mechanism is flexible enough to allow fast queries. The problem comes when you start writing, and reads have to wait for them.

Also, (I believe) it was this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvmMzI0X7fE that mentions sqlite being used in adobe lightroom, and it being faster to access thumbnails from an sqlite database.
It's a decent change. but...

- Most people do 12 hour shift. Not 24 hours.

- Most drivers lease their cabs at $100/day

- Fuel bill adds up to $15-$35 depending on car.

- There are other fees.

I think you're doing well if you net $200 in a shift on average. I think it's an optimistic figure.
When a democratic government makes decisions, everyone gets an equal share in that choice. If the road gets built, it's because most people agree it will benefit them.

When private enterprise makes decisions, those with more money get more choice. If a road gets built, it's because those with money agree it will benefit them.

If a democracy starts letting the rich have more say, then it needs to be strengthened to resist them, not weakened so they can do as they please.
10 blocks is very much considered walking distance in NYC. People walk here all the time - it's the default mode of transport to nearby places. Cabs are usually used for specific reasons: transporting something heavy, bad weather, rider has poor mobility (injured leg, etc.), had a lot to drink, entertaining/working with a client, etc.

This isn't true in the rest of the US, however. The rest of the country is less walkable and the infrastructure is designed for cars first and foremost, so people learn to default to cars even for nearby trips. When I lived in California it was hard to get people to walk anywhere, even if it was only 5-10 minutes away.
I wonder if crypto-currency's best feature, might turn out to be not secrecy, but transparency. Imagine a government that can only spend crypto-currency, where it's every transaction only becomes a transaction by virtue of it being on the public record / block-chain.

Where any transfer by the government to a recipient who was not publicly identified with signed keys, was a criminal act of fraud for which the government could be held accountable.

I think, as you suggest, that would defeat the original design purposes of crypto-currency, but it might be purpose for which crypo-currecy works very well.
That is why we search. With the nearly empty wikipedia page in place, you might never be driven to find the better source.
"Here are the techniques and glue code we use to make it all work in the absence of a framework."

Well, there's your framework...
Nodejs sample codes for beginers
Usually I feel the same way about resubmissions, but in this case I'm glad you did. I work as a developer in color science and it was really cool seeing this sort of stuff being used in huge projects - I sent this off to some coworkers and I'm sure we'll be discussing this in the morning :)
Use Subqueries and Window Functions to Compute Running Averages
I don't think (as I said) the guy was intending to chase around the world protecting his copyrights, he was trying to show the absurdity of the definitions that copyright law depends on, and in that sense what he did refuted a priori your comment.

You use the term "act of creation" as if he didn't engage in it. Not sure how you can claim that he didn't create the melodies, he did, doesn't matter that he didn't ever hear them, neither did Beethoven (you get my point). If he had any musical training he could credibly state that he was creating a Philip Glass style composition exploring the space of melodies blah blah blah. You don't think a skilled musician could characterize and categorize the different elements of this work? If he was serious about it, he could call it his ring cycle and start playing it, all the way through, a one hour performance a week.

And then I pointed out, and you ignored, that even if he didn't go out and claim copyright infringement, there is still the point that he insulated himself in a certain way from infringement claims from others.

I think he made an interesting philosophical point, I think you should chew on it in a more interesting way. In a case of an actual claim of infringement, he created lawyer fodder that could drag through courts for years, had he been a musician.

No, I don't think he overturned copyright law. To a large extent, judges make decisions based on practicalities more than they do on the letter of the law. The letter of the law comes up when there are colliding practicalities, and ambiguity in the law. Still, I think it's a more interesting thought exercise than you are giving it credit for.
Yellowstone supervolcano 'turned the asphalt into soup' shutting down roads
Nice, now if they would stop at the peninsula's largest city, Sunnyvale, ... :-) Mountain View isn't that far away but Sunnyvale is definitely one of the heavier stops on my commute. Seems like most of the train gets on or off there when I'm riding it.
Show HN: Build a Bluetooth-Controlled Robot, No Programming Required
Any sort of "decentralized" network of autonomous agents acting at the behest of identity verification would be extremely easy to game. There must be some incentive for these verifiers to act as an agents of the protocol, so you would assume they are compensated with SocialCoin. This is an incentive that is easy and rational to abuse.

Syndicates of agents will most likely pop up and commoditize iris scans or whatever the verification procedure requires. They'd quickly spoil the payouts for people without massive numbers of identities under their control.

Not only are they paid to sign people up, but they also can MITM payouts from unsuspecting individuals.
I've done 101 from SF to SJ in about 40 minutes at midnight. Multiply that by 3 for rush hour.
> Perhaps the only, quite unusual, exception is the .html file name extension for HTML files

Sounds like he has been missing out on Microsoft Office since at least 2007, though I must say I can only applaud that fact.

More seriously, the article might as well have ranted about files having any extension at all. Magic mime is much more reliable and versatile, not to mention all the viruses using .jpg.exe extensions.
Indeed; thank you for pointing that out.
Forget Google Glass Our next gadgets should take care of us
That's called google-bombing and is a well-established phenomenon.
Try white urad dal as well. Personal fav of mine.
These are vapor trails and the shape is because they follow local airflow. What’s happening is that the engine is changing the pressure/temperature in such a way that the localized atmospheric humidity is equal to its dew point. Basically the air has reached the maximum humidity and the water is condensing. It’s also really cool to see, since normally it would be invisible, but the angle of the sun makes it possible to see.
He hasn't told the reason behind the business card left at his front door...
OP should find an attorney. Also, OP is presumably now on the market? :) Willing to relocate to SFBA?

CEO should not screw people over (presumably) tens of thousands of dollars in a much larger deal. And should have been more competent w.r.t. contracts.
Uh, which is...?
There's a great disconnect between actual security needs and the security theatre demanded of those who must engage in guard duties. Those in charge must view the empowerment of security guards to determine actual threats as somehow inviting disaster when in fact, it may reduce the significant bureaucracy and paperwork these "centralised evaluation" procedures may impose.
.jpg.exe extensions are less of a problem when the operating system doesn't hide them.
I'm completely bewildered. I said:

> your question sounds like you trust the authors of standardized tests (who are often in for-profit companies that sell the tests, sell standards, and sell text books which match the standards) more than you trust teachers or the professional education system.

> Why is that, do you think?

You answered that it's because you could see the test questions, and evaluate them for yourself. Then you said it's because you could see samples of the questions. Now you say it's because you can compare scores?

Curriculum standards have been around since the 1800s, so is "have a standard" short for "have standardized tests"? Actually, we've had those for decades - my birth state of Florida started them in the 1970s, so I assume you mean "have high stakes standardized tests"? Actually, Florida also introduced the nation's first required high school graduation test in 1977", so you must mean "frequent high stakes standardized tests", yes?

How is this more useful than earlier assessment tests, as well as GPA, SAT scores, ACT scores, graduation percentages, number of students going on to the Ivy League/Big 10/whatever, number of National Merit (semi)finalists, number of available AP/IB courses, average AP score results for a given field, lists of extracurricular activities, football team scores, and a lot of other cross-school comparison metrics?

Again I ask, what is the basis of your trust of the authors of a standardized test over the teachers and the professional education system?
I think eventually we will learn to do this by analysing a person's connection to a network.
Today a spy/criminal can gain a new identity by acquiring a fake passport, what if verification of identity came not from a document, but from an analysis of your relationships on a blockchain, who had signed that they know and trust you, and when had they done it, and who had signed that they trusted them.
A trusted identity would become something that took years to build.
I work with a small team of developers, drip by drip I'm trying to convince the other three this is what we should be working on.
> while not being too burdensome to type

Exactly, and nowadays we have fast enough storage that reading the first few bytes of a file isn't a burden either. Might as well do that instead of appending bytes to each filename. Magic mime is more reliable, versatile and arguably safer (.jpg.exe attachments..?).
Do terrorists actually take pictures of potential targets?
I know that's what happens in the movies, but have there been documented accounts of terrorists taking photos before an attack--is it common? If it is common, is the false positive rate low enough to justify classifying this kind of photography as suspicious behavior?

Pictures of most likely targets are readily available online, and they can get those without exposing themselves to countersurveillance. Why would they stand around taking pictures?
Before everyone wised up / bad publicity forced them to, it wasn't uncommon for things like FTP servers to be able to create filenames which were either very long or contained reserved DOS names (e.g. CON, AUX, LPT1, etc.) and were thus undeletable using the Win32 APIs used by Explorer or cmd.exe.

The posix and NT-native APIs didn't have this limit so Windows admins either had to find a ported POSIX utility (rm.exe was popular) or learn how to use UNC paths:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28v=vs.85%2...

Characteristically, Microsoft doesn't seem to be interested in fixing this so everyone who builds a new file sharing service probably has to add layers of script-kiddy protection for backwards compatibility.
Right around the time we built that foundation in the bedrock of human trafficking and slavery?
Heh, that too. I keep saying "first thing I do when" because there's so much to do when installing Windows even if it's not for myself (nowadays Windows installs are, luckily, never for myself), but it really is one of the first things.
I saw it in the movie Pearl Harbor and if anything was a terrorist act it was that movie.
I liked it. Everybody's tastes are different.

Having made a feature length film, for what I imagine to be a similar budget or less, I might also be able to appreciate the effort that was put into this better than most here.

I think the general HN rules regarding criticism when people post a Show HN should be applicable here.
Things I dislike about sqlite:

1. Can not rename column, in a fast iteration project, renaming schema is quite common

2. No easy way to upsert data. There should be an easy equivalent to MySQL's "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE". If you use REPLACE you got PK changed.
I found it to be a great way to learn SQL.

As a rule of thumb, it should be fine if your goal is to learn the basics of SQL, and not-so-fine if you're looking to learn database administration.

I would not use it to learn how to alter tables, or even how to create and enforce a schema, as it doesn't do either quite like some of the other popular dbs out there.
Fuck you GitHub... I'm not a scrapper
Why is the article tagged "Anti-muslim bias"?
Is a Flagship Phone Frenzy upon us?
That is the most annoying error ever. No, I must not! I shall decide for myself what I must and mustn't do! /me opens cmd.exe and uses ren untitled.txt .gitignore

A slightly bigger challenge is a file named CON :)
Exactly. "Early" is generally understood to mean before the "time in question" -- the time that serves as the frame of reference when an engagement will occur.

Asking participants to arrive early would, at least to me, strike as a caveat to those who might otherwise arrive late -- but not at the "time in question".

On time is on time, which is AT the stated time. Not before, not after.
I'm afraid to say that I'm worried that the more power you give guards to determine threats, the more they will harass folks. There is a bit of a ratcheting effect, no one will get in trouble for being too strict, but you're likely to get in trouble if you miss something, but there's also the human love of power in there. Give people power over a limited domain, and they just love to wield it.
What do you mean?

He said that when he called the agent, he was asked if he had been to Boston recently; you can therefore infer that the reason the card was left was so that he would be able to contact said agent(an agent who was looking into him due to the 'photography incident' in Boston)...

It's basically the entire point of the article; although I guess you're right, that aspect is technically implied, not stated explicity. It's a clear implication though in my opinion.
Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship
One of the problems is they're natural monopolies. You only need the one data link and so it's (arguably) more cost effective to have a single regulated monopoly on the last mile side. You can create hybrid systems (like the UK) where other businesses buy capacity wholesale from the monopoly provider and compete over the same infrastructure.
Another way of framing the problem is that we don't currently have a distributed way to authenticate identity at scale; currently the least worst solution is some kind of bureaucratic institution. (Public key encryption is a good start, but it doesn't prevent the creation of infinite sock puppets, or offer a good solution for stolen keys.)
Also, another option that have work well for me in OSX is

http://www.valentina-db.com/

P.D: Just because is a commercial product down vote the parent? In this area (Sql managers) the commercial ones are better than the open source ones, by a LOT.
Anti-muslim bias: https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/anti-muslim-bias
i'm a senior js engineer and angular fanatic / mentor. pretty sure SFBA is over-crowded with us :)
> Should we really be able to force someone to use their property an a way that serves the public interest?

Yes. And this happens all the time in a million different contexts. Taxes. Easements. Speed limits on cars and trucks. You are constantly being told what you can and can't do with things you own.

"Freedom" isn't letting you do whatever the fuck you want to do with whatever happens to have your name attached to it. It's balancing individual rights with our collective rights so we all (ideally) maintain the freedom to live our lives as we wish.
Making Audio Plugins Tutorial
He has a Muslim background, I think, and he wasn't the only one to be part of this complaint. Wired has a write up about this as well http://www.wired.com/2014/07/five-sue-gov-over-targeting/
That explains a thing or two, thanks for mentioning it.
You should either use TAB-completion or click on the file. There should be no reason to type the extension. ( Though in practice I sort of see your point. )
Finding the World's Economic Center of Gravity
The "hide known file extensions" default option should have been around less than a month before someone realize, "this is very insecure". The fact that it's been around for over a decade is just lame.
Yes they do. The competent ones will have surveillance teams that are different from the operational teams. (A team can be a single person, obviously).

Look for a copy of the "terrorist recognition manual", the 2nd ed. has leaked in PDF, and the 3rd edition is on amazon. It goes into quite a lot of detail regarding the terrorist attack cycle. Surveillance is a significant part of planning a successful terrorist attack.

If it helps, several terrorists have been caught due to conducting surveillance. It usually the best time to capture them, since they haven't conducted an attack that kills anyone yet :)
FWIW the 2007+ office file extensions are all more than 3 characters (e.g. ACCDB, ACCDT, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM, XLAM, PPTX, PPTM, POTX, POTM, PPAM, PPSX, PPSM, SLDX, SLDM, XLSX, XLSM, XLTX, XLSM, XLSB)
> fixing the brain chemicals seemed to have benefitted your stomach.

How do we know the drugs didn't fix the stomach chemicals (enteric nervous system) directly, resulting in better brain function?
I used to live down El Camino Real from the Millbrae station. It should be closer to $15-20.
Something like this, if run all day, could be a great service in Los Angeles Metropolitan which has a severely crippled public transport system. The area is spread out into a lot of decent sized cities with almost no public transport connections - hence causing a driving nightmare every single day. Just so I can avoid crazy traffic, if you come to LA, I'll make the app for free.
IOI 2014
Home-printed (not etched) PCBs? This is awesome. Sure, the traces look thick as hell and you're obviously limited to 1-2 layers, but it's what progress looks like.

Just as the barrier for entry has come down for software -- in the form of better tools, frameworks, and languages -- so too is it coming down for hardware in the form of easier, more accessible and better-quality prototyping. The specialist in me worries (occasionally), but what a wonderful moment of innovation we live in..
So he gets into a minor argument with some security guards, guards call the cops, cops leave their business card on his front door and when he calls them he's asked if he's been to Boston recently... what am I supposed to be outraged about?
The secret Dotcom papers: Why New Zealand's spy agency let Dotcom in
It's a valid question, not sure why you're being down voted. It nicely fills the use case of "I could totally run this project from an 80 cent microcontroller, except that it needs network connectivity, and the only practical way to do that in my environment is with 802.11 or 802.3."

The Raspberry Pi designers made a bunch of, IMHO, totally bone-headed design decisions early on (e.g., RTC "costs too much", but let's throw on a bunch of expensive ZIF connectors for overpriced peripherals that nobody will use) and the B+ is a move in the right direction to fix that.

My use case is "wifi terminal server." Which is to say that I built a battery-powered RPi system to connect Sky Safari on my iPad to a go-to telescope. The official Sky Safari wifi peripheral is $180 and can't even act as an access point! With the RPi, I have a better uart bridge (in that it runs hostapd) for one third the cost of the official solution. Plus, there is the possibility of adding auto-guiding using the gpio pins and some hacking.
not cops. FBI.
The .html 'exception' shouldn't really be that surprising. How many web servers do you know that run on MS-DOS?
> If it helps, several terrorists have been caught due to conducting surveillance. It usually the best time to capture them, since they haven't conducted an attack that kills anyone yet

I have to ask: If they have not conducted an attack, how was it determined that they were a terrorist?

Edit: A link to an example might be helpful.
This is all to common. I am currently in a not an entirely dissimilar situation.

What I have learned from it I would tell anyone working at a Startup. When your grant comes due make them give it to you. Get a lawyer then if need be.

Now to the "I'm not a lawyer advice."

In most states you have 1 year to claim things not given to you under an employment agreement. As long as your year is not up you may have a case. If you are past a year your options may be limited.

Now a list of questions you need the answer to.

Were you granted Shares or Options?
An Option would have to be executed with in a given amount of time. A share is actual equity in the company, but an option is the ability to buy a share for a set price. Often you are given an options grant based on the "strike price" on the day you were hired. If the company had raised money at $5m Valuation, and sold for $25M and you had 1% of the company, you'd get 1% of $20M. Because your Buy price would be based on the valuation of the company when you were hired.

If you didn't exercise an option after termination you don't own any shares.

Did you sign anything on termination?

Most of the time the exit agreement which often includes a severance becomes the document that says, "We don't owe you nothing" and is very hard to fight.

Two questions may not be a "list" but I think those two will suffice for now.
Yes. Its so obvious that they would I can't understand why someone would ask this question. They also commonly videotape targets and visit them before hand. Did you really think that the entire concept of reconnaissance was a Hollywood myth?
I got interrogated by Federal Marshals for videotaping out a hotel lounge window while bored in NYC.