skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's really hard to sell SQLAlchemy when you have never used it (I'm assuming, correct me if I'm wrong), read this blog for an full comparison http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/19/sqlachemy-and-you/ (quite old).

For the Django part of your comment the other modules it provides are useful for building a website but not an API which was in the root comment. Indeed for a website Django is my preferred tool too. Although in a project where I know the API is the core I would choose something lighter weight (using flask in my current project but learning from comments here Pyramid is something to look into too) and then build the portal in Django, handle user authentication there and allow access to the authenticated users to the API via requests signed in Django or direct access via API keys. In my experience it's the fastest/most flexible approach in terms of dev.
iOS 7.1.2 with iPhone 5S here, I haven't had a clean exit from the app yet, seems to crash everytime.. almost consistently after I delete a video I just recorded.
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What if it is some kind of experiment?
I'm French and I do realize it's a pretty complicated language to learn. Ridiculous amounts of exceptions to every single rule, dozens of tenses (which no one ever uses), lack of general structure, arbitrary genders, it's got it all.

My personal piece of advice to anyone: don't waste your time learning French, it's a dying language. Go for Spanish if you need a latin language, it's at least used in Spain, the United States, Central and South America. And once you speak Spanish, French comes rather easy (with the benefit of Italian and Portuguese becoming almost trivial).
and am wondering why its got so many upvotes?
Astoundingly enough, the birth rates in countries where women are given equal liberty as men are much lower than those where culture or law prevent women from exercising free agency.
I think this could be some kind of exploit being tested.

The upvotes could be explained by a voting ring or some kind of bot doing it.

But apparently there are not enough people who flagged this, so it remains on the front page.

Looking at the account's comments, they are all a bit different in style, most of them don't seem to have useful content.
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Strongly agree. I am writing this from a slackware I broke pretty badly right after install. I accidentally deleted /var/log/packages (don't ask me how), and didn't have any backup.

People told me to reinstall. I didn't, I tracked down all the tgz's and hacked on installpkg to regenerate /var/log/packages without reinstalling. Of couse all streaming over a mounted curlftpfs. Oh what a rush.

% ls ~/tmp/desaster/
installpkg
local-pkgs
root
slackware64

This was possible because I knew which series I installed at date X. I knew my last security updates were at date Y and which custom (self-built) packages I had installed. Slackware is so simple, so sane, so beautiful. A hallmark of software engineering.
I donno. Add some options for racing strips, a hello kitty theme, some godawful gold stipple (a Dalek fashion, but popular), or whatever, and suddenly people will love it.

Remember how popular the iMac (~1999) was when they started adding colors and patterns to the outside?
I can't second these statements enough, especially the last one.

I'd tried every major distro before settling on Slackware sometime around '99 and that's when I finally learned Linux.

I'm using Arch today and to me it's a very similar philosophy with some bonuses. If it weren't around, I would surely be using Slack.
I'm certainly not saying this was a fake post. Though it's possible, I guess. I'm just saying that the internet is a tool of war. And for those purposes, it's helpful that information can become rapidly-propagated Truth.
With iOS 8, they could just make an extension that allows other apps to use it.
I think the more important question is if their client is open sourced, how can we trust that the binaries are made with exactly those sources? There should be a measure of testing it without the sources too, maybe sniffing packets to check for the encrypted content is a start.
Maybe this? http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih3/sleep/guid...
They can also be recolored more easily, making themes easier to maintain.
> Waggle for gaming certainly seems "done" as a trend.

Waggle is a really bad way to input button presses, which is all it was ever used for. It won't be missed.
I was going to say this... Any person designing this kind of logo collections should ask first. Legal troubles can arise. Sad but true...
I did mean investment bank, thanks for correcting.

How are investors putting pressure on a bank? Investors are the owners of the bank, they don't "put pressure", they manage their property. Investors will want their property to grow and issue dividends as much as possible - investment bank or not. Calling it a deposit bank isn't going to change that.

The risk profile of investors is also not a consideration. More risk aggressive investors can simply leverage themselves. Investors want the risk level that's appropriate for the business. They may disagree on what that level is, but that disagreement will stem from different strategic outlooks and not from personal preferences.

An again: so ibanks cannot fund investments from deposits? That becomes entirely irrelevant the minute you have a liquid commercial paper market. Instead of investing deposits, the ibank will simply borrow money short term from a bank that has deposits. This is what happened in practice. It even happened with companies like GE which became de faco ibanks thanks to their high credit rating.

And yes, this means the deposit bank will be exposed to the risks the ibank is taking. If you want to regulate that out, you'll have to require banks be entirely in cash or treasuries. Glass-Steagall won't do.
From the few details [1] I've been able to find it seems like it's unusable in the UK anyway as it uses 151-154 MHz, which is a licensed band. If they moved it up into the 433ishMHz unlicensed band their range claims would all have to be revised.

[1] http://gigaom.com/2014/07/17/no-signal-gotenna-has-a-messagi...
sattelites dont commercially provide 6 inch. its all aerial. 1m accuracy is very poor for things like property boundary checks, etc. Fine for getting to your destination, however.
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>Fanatical supporters are quite capable of doing this on their own. For example, UKIP supporters dominate the comments section and polls on the Telegraph, while making up about 10% of the population

Well, if they are passionate enough to go vote on the polls while others wouldn't care to, that's their right...

The government --who is supposed to be neutral and for all parties-- interfering and skewing to a particular result, that's wrong on so many levels, I can't even begin to describe...
Uh actually if you're going to define it as 'Art' then it's entitled to take a "view point" which you may not thinks is correct, but which is intended to cause a reaction. Which you are having. There is no duty to be truthful - which is why it's "Art" and not a history book.

And, what do you mean by "correct" anyway. You mean the current view of what you deem to be correct - which may not be others viewpoint, and which probably was not the viewpoint of people in future or the past. And, anyway the only viewpoint that matter is that of the creator of the work.

So no sorry, I think you mean "if I did something about Colonization I would do it differently and the current work does not properly represent my viewpoint".

Not as pithy though.
Very nice, thank you. Will definantly use it.
Yes they are. A representative sample of the population is not online, period, and the huge self-selection bias in the sorts of websites they visit necessitates some very substantial black magic to get numbers out.
It's a lot harder for opponents to argue against the idea of testimony enhancing equipment than it is for them to argue against equipment that strips the officer of discretion and privacy. So the use it when you want to version probably gets deployed faster and with less fuss.

I don't think a police officer needs a great deal of privacy while on duty, but I also don't mind giving them the ability to turn off recording devices when they use the toilet. I mean turn it off independently, without asking some overseer for permission.
Maybe the article is a honeypot to catch bot voters?
Don't get me wrong but isn't it "just" a fancy app-based interface to systrace?
Which is precisely why online polls are worthless. I wonder what sorts of results you'd get if you ran a poll about domestic surveillance on HN, Reddit, etc. You think that'd be a representative viewpoint? Who puts any stock in these sorts of poll results? Plus: if GCHQ can manipulate them, so can a whole bunch of other people...
The difference between Arch and Slack tho is, a Slackware system is rock solid and doesn't need to be touched. An Arch system not maintained for a couple months is in pacman hell. :)
I don't disagree with that at all. The stats are completely bollocks but they indicate a trend reasonably well even with the selection bias.

What I'm saying is that they do have influence and after all, that's what GCHQ are about even if the numbers are wrong.
It pre-compiles routes to a prefix trie [0], which allows it to match any route in one run by walking down the tree rather than trying each route from scratch. Nginx uses the same strategy for static routes.

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0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
One thing that is missing from most homes is symmetrical internet access. As long as most people can download data significantly faster than upload them, data hosted in the cloud has advantages. Ideally eventually internet connections would become symmetric and fast enough for everyone to have their own low power server with a static ipv6 address at home, with which they can sync all their data. Of course this does not solve the problem that most sever software has complicated configuration and open source alternatives often lack the polish of commercial products. But as soon as there is a switch to ipv6 and symmetric internet access, I see little reason why a decentralized solution would not win.
Why would a bot vote for this instead of any other article?
Not if it's open-source (or at least, harder to game).

All you gotta do is co-opt the "Read the Bills Act" with a requirement to video-record the congress-person reading the bill (as that becomes their affidavit). Make that open-source, and then it just starts bleeding out. Auto-upload that to an app where people could get speech-to-text transcription / notifications / annotate sections / review past laws being read by past congress-people / etc. From there, ensure all bills can be edited in a central and private repositories (probs git, erryone likes git, though svn treats me well), so that all final bills can have all individual contributions clearly marked/annotated automatically. Oh look, auto-matching bill-text with campaign contributions :-P. Code is law. Patch the corruption.
you can schedule aircraft so they cover and area when there's a cloud free (or diminshed) window. Satellites get what they get. For cities like portland that's typically not good enough.
But we're not talking about "all the polls" but "online polls." Here in the U.S., nobody bases their voting decisions on what Fox's or MSNBC's online polls say.
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Sure, they can open a suspicious package. And for the situation at hand, they'll find medication available at most pharmacies - the problem isn't that the contents are illegal (they're not per se), it's that the shipper is guilty only of paperwork violations!

So yeah, FedEx is exonerated in this case because they're in no position to evaluate the legality of the contents as that is determined, not by simple possession, but by materials (regulatory filings) which they are absolutely not privy to.
Fight Malaria One Mosquito at a Time by Altering DNA
In papers published yesterday in eLife and Science, Harvard scientists including George Church reveal how Cas9/CRISPR genome editing tools can be used to create powerful "gene drives" to artificially shape the evolution of populations.

Source articles:
eLife: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03401
Science: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1254287
thank you, noted.
Yes, NP-complete is a subset of NP-hard. Grandparent states that NP-completeness only applies to decision problems (which is correct), but seems to think that NP-hardness applies to optimization problems (which is incorrect; NP-hard too is a class of decision problems).
No voice? That lost all of my interest. So now I need to tap out a message on my expensive, somewhat fragile smartphone with dirty fingers while losing all sight of the road for a minute. Instead of a sturdy walkie-talkie where I can hear the voices of my friends, talk efficiently in real sentences and I can look where I'm going all the time.
My contract says I'm paying for access to the Internet. Access to the Internet involves transmitting data outwards, and receiving data inwards. So yes, I am paying them to transmit L3's traffic.
On another note (ignoring the wrong title) can someone explain in layman's terms what this means? My understanding was that temperature acclimation to new temperatures
But not salts like calcium and magnesium, which are essential. As far as I know sodium is the only salt that influences blood pressure.
Sketchfab adds Genius-like 3D Annotations
I personally (redundantly) am an android/linux user, but I perceive that iPhone and iPad are accepted in rich and powerful circles, and are precisely the market for an IBM effort.

I don't think IBM wants to sell _both_ a corporate data initiative and a new phone at the same time.
Very saddened by this:

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Please visit us again when it is available in your country.
"The twenty-first century has only aggravated the political, moral, social, and environmental concussions of the twentieth."

It's early days--through the mid-summer of its 14th year, the 20th was fairly peaceful. But at this point I don't see the 21st as doing worse than the 20th.

" I have seen young teenagers who just yesterday were ebullient, verbal, interactive, and full of personality turn into aphasic zombies within three months of getting a smart phone or an iPad."

I known for ten years some persons, now 25 or so, who have had cell phones since they were 15 and iPads since those came out. They have been, at every point at which I came in contact with them, lively and articulate. I met them when I was the dad driving around kids without licenses, so I'm not boasting about my generation.

"Becoming a boring human being is the fate of most people who keep the tech economy’s lights burning deep into the night."

From the point of view of an NYRB writer, perhaps. I doubt that the electrical engineers who made it possible to wire Manhattan shone at literary cocktail parties; yet I guess they had the decency to make more moderate piles of money.

"The new wine is dying on the vine, and Dionysos, the telluric god of ecstasy, is nowhere in sight."

The expression "new wine" I usually see in the New Testament "new wine in old bottles"; how that fits in with Dionysos, I can't guess. Is Robert Pogue Harrison a new pseudonym of Lewis Lapham's?
It doesn't help me at all, but that's because I'm not confused about this issue. If you drank large quantities of ultra pure water as defined in the article, without compensating for the loss of essential salts that would result, you would die. What you are talking about here has no relevance to anything as far as I can tell.
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GLITTERBALL - Online Gaming Capabilities for Sensitive Operations - Currently Second Life

I'm just not sure what this means. Monitoring SL activity, or using it to conduct sensitive operations?
Mapbox get good results with their post-processing to remove clouds.

http://www.wired.com/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas

I'd be intrigued to see how it would look once you zoom in further to city scale. Would you see blurs of cars along roads?
Scientists Are Afraid To Talk About The Robot Apocalypse
"We're sorry. Kindle Unlimited is currently only available for US customers. Please visit us again when it is available in your country."

That's ok Amazon. My local library lets me check out as many ebooks as I can read. And audio books. And paper books.

Total cost? FREE!

via taxation which works out as £13 per year (budget is £8 million, population is 650k)
The last line is priceless.

"So the moral of the story is: Sometimes quickly and mindlessly choosing a random solution isn't half bad!"
Why the lord of the rings allusion??? http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Orthanc
Actually, I wasn't being sarcastic.
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I think that it is more likely that GCHQ employs ex-hackers, especially those who have been due to be prosecuted under Computer Misuse Act misdemeanors.

Most of these kids are perfect for indoctrination into such government agencies. They like to think they are James Bond.

My reasoning is that those names sound 'hackerish', whilst typical UK military code names are usually more about power and glory: http://www.alanharding.com/Military/codenames/operations.htm...
Looks like Amazon is trying to do to ebooks what Spotify and Netflix have done to music and content.

The pricing is interesting. At $9.99, it's more than Netflix and the same as Spotify. I'm not sure if anyone will binge read books the same way people do with the other two services.
French is an official language in 29 countries and spoken by more than 200 million people. It's probably the most widely learned foreign language after English. It's also one of the top 10 languages on the internet. I'm genuinely curious why you would call it a dying language.
You can change the color and size without having to change or edit an image. Plus things like pixelation dont happen with fonts but you could use canvas in a similar way. I've seen some cool logos done with canvas.
Open Connect is not a cache. And while the hardware might be free, it is not a silver bullet.

http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2014/07/search/bmV...
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A Year for A Second
Speaking of personal experience, when begun at an early age, learning a language will be really easier and almost innate. I started learning French at the age of 8 within school classes, then English at the age of 11 and finally Spanish when 17. I am thus not as fluent in Spanish as I am in French or English BUT since French is a dying language and way complicated I find English to be the perfect language to use, even on a personal level and despite the fact Arabic is my native tongue.

Bottom line is, if you are a parent and wish for your kids to learn a particular language, start as they are young.
Can anyone offer any guidance on the audiobook aspect of this? What is a "Kindle book with narration"? If I'm an audible customer... doesn't this seem like a far better deal? Their page seems very light on details for audiobooks.

Edit: I just found a link that includes Kindle Unlimited books with Narration: http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=9630682011
Yes, meanwhile Microsoft has been trying to be all things to all people, and the result is they are always last to market, with a subpar product.
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Would you say French is more or less complicated than English (from how much you can evaluate the two fairly, though it seems like your English is excellent)? I'm frequently catching myself on how hard English must be to learn...having it pushed on to me in school is only second in born-privilege to being a U.S. citizen by birth. My Vietnamese parents have been in the states nearly 40 years, speaking English in their jobs and to me everday, and it's still off.

I took French in high school just because most everyone else was taking Spanish...that was not a good attempt at rebelling :). I do love the language though, but liking it has no relation to having the discipline to be fluent in it...having situations where you need to speak it is the key factor, and that's not a frequent situation in the States.

Still, I'm almost certain that if I hadn't taken French (or Spanish), I would've never known what the nuance of something like the subjunctive mood, in French or in English, and I like thinking through sentence structure when writing and reading...not sure if that casual academic pleasure offers the same level of brain benefits the OP refers to.
Amazon isn't intentionally discriminating against your country, they don't have a choice.
I think they are quite deliberately pointing out that dealers can communicate with their users in private, outside of law enforcement spying on them [Use case A1].
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Screenshots can be massively misleading when it comes to font rendering because renderers take display characteristics into account.

Make a screenshot of those and look at it on a different monitor, and things can look very ugly.
"I'm not sure if anyone will binge read books the same way people do with the other two services."

Surely you're joking, right? $9.99 is typically close-to the cost of a single ebook. For any avid reader, they'll easily blow through at least a few books a month.
There are plenty of people already on the $15/mo plan with Audible. Myself included. I listen to audio books on my commute. The difference with my more expensive plan is that I get too keep the audio books. Though I have not re-listened to any so this is something for me to think about.
Yes, they're worthless, but, anchoring effect.
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"when... self aware machines..."

What makes anyone assume a machine is capable of being self aware? I never got that.
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> The /dev/random pool is limited based on the entropy that can be obtained from environmental noise, so if there is insufficient entropy, the requested number of bytes may not be returned. If there is no entropy available at all, getrandom(2) will either return an error with errno set to EAGAIN, or block if the GRND_BLOCK flags bit is set.

Man, that's an ugly interface. So, if there are 8 bits of entropy available and I ask for 16, it will return 8, but if there are none available and I ask for 16 it will block and then return 16.

Also, it's not possible to know how much entropy is available. I'd really like to emphasise that: entropy estimation is nonsense.

Don't block; seriously, don't block. Just spit out the output of a properly-seeded PRF (e.g. AES in CTR mode).
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But they can only be one color. I don't think gradients and stuff work on them.
The government --who is supposed to be neutral and for all parties

Whereas in the Scottish Independence referendum, the civil service has a buzzfeed and twitter account publishing heavily biased "no" material. I suppose at least that's overt.
Two weeks coming up! Another two weeks will be taken out at the end of the year :)
Apple blamed for not offering ways to stop users being misled by “free” apps
I still don't understand why, when content is digital and distribution doesn't cost anything extra, things like this are restricted to specific countries.