skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The plethora of solutions to this problem that are already out there, battling through the usability issues, leads me to a perilous thought: there really aren't any guarantees that .. not only do we have the NSA to deal with, but .. many other groups which can profit from severe fragmentation. Cocktail OS builds for commodity hardware are one thing, but knowing - truly - what is going on in the stack is another thing entirely. I think thats important, for an Open Source Wifi/Network effort.

So any attempt to make an open source router OS that kicks ass, should, in my opinion, predominantly strive to be a self-hosting OS, with full sources on-board, and signed images being turnkey; i.e. everything needed to build the OS from source is part of the package; i.e. no cross-compiling, no binary blobs, the router builds its own firmware.

Yes, its extreme, but I truly do think that the disconnect between build-ability and OS 'dependencies management tools' has a lot to offer in terms of improvement. If the first thing the machine did, OOBE, was to build itself its own unique system image .. from source .. as a feature for the user .. then we have a secure system.

Unsigned system-image keys are going to be very, very much more important in this networking/communication space. Full source->build->signed-binary control as part of the bootup is where this effort should focus. Sign the code, build the code, sign the binaries, only run signed binaries on the OS built around the key, and so on.

This allows intercommunication - shared Source, of course - but it also allows audit of things in the environment which is being defended. If we don't build-in sufficient encryption to make it truly safe, whats the point of being so Open about it? Imho, RouterOS should be full-Source onboard.
So does she go to Oregon whenever she wants a berry?
I was honestly sort of surprised people didn't know. The collapse of the fishery was so completely devastating to the east coast (where I was born) economy that it's just sort of a given back home that lobster prices are awful, your potatoes are going to rot and your kids are going to move (like I did).
Xtend: Modernized Java
ICANN suspends Domain Registry of America for fraud and mining WHOIS data [pdf]
Yes, we were in generation 6.2 from Feb-Aug, 2013. We remained in Santiago longer than any other international team from our generation and still have most of our team members in Chile. If you have any questions about the program, I'd be happy to chat about our experience.
Ah, I guess I read too fast!! Thanks for the note!
"Happiness is subjective and relative"

True story: When I was a kid, I was very happy with the rattling performance of my old Schneider PC. The sun was shining bright that day during the lunch break on the schoolyard, when a notoriously rich kid approached me with a grin on his face: "So you have a PC at home, huh? Want to see a real one?". A couple hours later we walked to his mansion. I took a seat in front of his PC. It looked new, and great. The monitor was very large. Very impressive. And then he turned it on. "It's a Pentium!". And he went on bragging about it. When I came back home and turned my PC on to continue working on my website, I was more aware than ever that my PC was slow. I knew it sucked, and from that moment on it depressed me. A couple years later I got a fast Dell. I was happy for a while. Until I got used to it.

Morale: Sometimes, not knowing what can make you happy means you stay happy.
Principle of the thing. I don't buy scallops unless I'm down home because the markup on it seem ridiculous (especially since they're usually less fresh and of lesser quality).
Thanks. We changed the url to that from http://boingboing.net/2014/07/19/drm-free-indie-ebooks-outse....
Friends who grew up in rural Nova Scotia remember the same thing: Lobster were bugs of the sea, poor man's food.

Well, to me they are still bugs of the sea. Vile, really.
Surface to Air Missile simulator
Sorry about that! I had someone else report that it fails across all browsers with the HD4400.
AFAIK the Atheros drivers are open which is why this project is using Atheros hardware. The problem is solved as long as you are willing to buy specific hardware.

It does appear that 90% of the effort in the router firmware community goes to dealing with blobs and diverse hardware support; whether that effort is wasted is a matter of opinion.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1268/
Linkedin helps. I dig through the degrees of separation between myself and someone with an access to the budget I need to tap.
You can right click any html5 video and choose Save video as...
Just a first quick thought here... if you want to proceed into management, you'll want to show that you can not only sell but also help other salespeople improve their performance. How will they know they're improving? You could start with some very simple metrics -- total $ of sales, avg $ sales per customer, # of calls made, % of leads that have closed -- and start plotting them on a daily or weekly basis with a retrospective meeting. You should be able to do this with spreadsheets, and gather the data from your co-workers daily during a 15-minute coffee break. See what the data tells you. See if you can help somebody improve their metrics.
If by "null hypothesis", you mean artificial intelligence that exceeds human intelligence is impossible, that is a bold claim. Since human intelligence is nothing more than a successful evolutionary algorithm implemented in 3-dimensional cellular networks, it is inevitable that we'll be able to copy and improve the algorithm at some point in the future. Then we'll have artificial intelligence that exceeds human intelligence. Then what?
RentHop (YC S09) is looking for a technical sales lead for NYC, Boston, Chicago
I think lobster qualifies as a Veblen good. When lobster was plentiful, it was fed to prisoners. The only reason people pay a lot for a lobster dinner is because -- lobster is expensive!
Why is IOT special?
www.globalrichlist.com will give you some insights to where you fall globally.
Behavior like the type you describe could easily be self destructive and hugely detrimental.

> make inappropriate propositions to friends or strangers when inebriated

this is really really not good
Most x86 chromebooks have SeaBIOS included in their coreboot payload, you can just press C-l and it'll drop you to a standard BIOS, I use this to run a PC GNU/Linux distro on my C720P.
Robotic glove gives you extra fingers for grabbing
Why can't we agree on x-browser development standards?
Python repr and str – the difference
I use Crashplan with two destinations: their cloud and Crashplan instance on my home NAS. This mitigates fire risk and keeps restores fast since I can just restore data from NAS instead of waiting for full restore from their cloud.
Dropping in on the 'door to hell'
"Cities owe it to their citizens to try and work with these platforms and focus on solving the real issue: finding parking in an ever more crowded city"

I disagree. That's only one aspect of the issue. Another is the surplus of free parking, as discussed in the 2005 "The High Cost of Free Parking", and brought up here in HN many times. Look elsewhere for the details.

If parking prices are set appropriately, then there should nearly always be available parking, and the city gets all of the profit, instead of sharing it or giving it to third parties. A few cities have started this. See http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/13019/prices-affect... and http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2014/06/does-san-franciscos... for preliminary numbers.

In that solution, there is no need to work with this platforms, as the available third party market will be small.

If a city works with these platforms then the correct market interpretation is that they are using taxpayer owned property - the city streets - to channel funds into private hands, possibly in opposition to the stated reasons for certain zoning requirements. I wonder if it may even mean the city is open to zoning challenges based on a conflict of interest.
This (re-)post was killed by user flags.
To anyone interested, there is a seemingly well maintained project to work with Xtend on Android. https://github.com/tobykurien/Xtendroid

Disclaimer: I didn't try it beyond a few tests.
I read an interviewer with a restauranteur who stated the recieved wisdom was that the revenues from running a restaurant should be split around 30% ingredients, 30% overheads, 30% staff and 10% profit.
I'm in the research group at Ayasdi and can say that we actively do research in both TDA and Machine Learning and have developed unpublished but cutting edge fusion between the two fields - using TDA to enhance traditional machine learning models (not yet released in public).

I regularly attend academic conferences, give university colloquia and also talk at industry events (eg. In the last month I gave two workshop sessions at ICML in Beijing, gave a lecture at a drug design conference in NJ and presented at a Big Data conference in NYC).

We do basic research but as a small company (and small group) we have to keep our eyes on the commercial application and financial implications of our work. For myself I've found this environment stimulating and if anything has helped my research productivity.

It's worth pointing out that Gunnar Carlsson - who is mentioned in the article - is both one of the inventors of TDA and someone who participates in the daily development of the company and product. We have an open seating plan and he currently sits diagonally to my desk and next to one of our most junior employees (not in the research group). In that sense, there's opportunity for people to step up as they desire with access to people who aren't just leaders in TDA, but who invented it.

As a company we consider someone like yourself in a variety of roles - Data Science, Research or Engineering. In all of those groups people develop novel techniques that could be qualified as "research" and all groups contain people with PhD's in technical fields - some coming straight out of grad schools, some after postdocs and some after holding faculty positions. We are broadminded regarding academic backgrounds and there are people with undergraduate degrees making novel contributions as well. One of our presales engineers (who has a PhD) just had a paper published in Nature - which I mention to show how we have research capabilities spread very broadly through the organization.

If you want to talk more feel free to reach out to me.
Redis is so fast because it sits in memory, sql relies heavily on hard disk
I am fairly unorganized. At the moment I have ~20 projects in various states of completion. My main project takes up most of my time, but I try to feed the others when I can. I also look for opportunities to combine them where possible e.g. "oh I can use the framework I am developing for A to do B also"

The one thing I try not to do is burn out on one project, when I feel that happening I shift to something completely different or just go read a book for a couple of days.
There are several hosts that will let you host. I prefer Github Pages because of the simplicity of Jekyll and that it uses Git and plus you get free Github CDN and a nice github subdomain.

Otherwise self-hosted Wordpress or Anchor Cms is the best option.
Many coreboot installs(including those on x86 chromebooks) have SeaBIOS included. you just press C-l at boot and it drops you into the standard PC BIOS. If you've gone through and removed the warranty-voiding screw(which is not warranty-voiding in europe) you can enable it by default(and also just load your kernel directly as a payload, which I think is a better idea).

There is also talk, and perhaps actual implementation, of TianoCore running on top of coreboot.

SeaBIOS is also used by VirtualBox, and probably Xen as well.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149908.
Is programming math?  You're asking the wrong question
You're reading a lot into my message that I didn't say, and also attributing quotes to me that I did not make.

Anyway, it was just an observation, nothing more.
Please, if you'd be interested in a math font by MB (and be willing to pay for it, of course), tell him!

Maybe we can be a niche market. :-)
I tried mophie. I like the uNu much better (http://www.myunu.com/products/battery-case.html)

Specifically the uNu is actually certified by Apple unlike the Mophie (which is strange because Apple's stores carry the Mophie and don't carry the uNu.

The uNu also connects the USB so you can sync, copy, etc through USB unlike the mophie
Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited
I agree it being a good thing.
I think that's right, and it's probably even pretty compatible with what I suggest.

What I think is dangerous is adopting the underlying philosophy that your intuition is inherently wrong and in need of salvation from reason.

In this, as with every other area of human improvement, there's a balance to be struck between recognising your current state as "good enough" (even that has a derogatory ring to it) while not isolating you from the fact that there's almost always almost infinite room for improvement. And I think the cult of reason and LW in particular is bad at recognising and respecting a "good enough" state.

Or put another way, imagine if the most popular software engineering website was "YoureNotAsGoodAsJohnCarmack.com".
In a Subprime Bubble for Used Cars, Borrowers Pay Sky-High Rates
Here is a more actionable list:

http://blog.bufferapp.com/10-scientifically-proven-ways-to-m...
I guess the moral of the story is that if we want affordable food, we should eat local. It seems like half of the costs to the restaurant are associated with shipping the lobster alive.
All I'm seeing is a ship's wheel, but clicking on it does nothing. Apparently it should be playing a sound.

Is that all there is to this webpage?
Europe Wants Apple and Google to Fix In-App Payments Problem
What we need is a way for people in the U.S. to travel to Latin America and get much cheaper healthcare.
If the lobster were so valuable to the locals, they probably wouldn't be selling them far below $60.
iPhone 4s + Metal BB Rifle = TARGET PRACTICE
This comment is a perfect example of why encryption is mostly not used at all. (Which is far worse than any given vuln). There's kind of a perverse all-or-nothing attitude where the goal is to poke at any possible flaw in a system as proof that it is completely worthless. What's wrong with there being different tradeoffs between security and convenience? The insistence on all-or-nothing solutions has resulted in the powers that be knowing almost everything about almost everyone in our society, because almost no one wants to deal with the trouble of "completely secure" encryption.
Wouldn't ALL the hardware need to be open source, to be able to trust it?

With our beloved NSA accused of back-dooring routers, this pretty much eliminates retail routers from consideration, doesn't it?

It seems like the entire stack from top to bottom would need to be open source.

DISCLAIMER: I'm just a wireless user. I don't know about either HW or driver design. These are just my questions.
I ain't changing my dns server to a server in Germany

6 50.242.148.34 (50.242.148.34) 11.825 ms 23.165 ms 11.936 ms
7 vlan60.csw1.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.152.62) 167.163 ms 173.912 ms
vlan80.csw3.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.152.190) 179.634 ms
8 ae-61-61.ebr1.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.153.1) 166.071 ms 166.300 ms
ae-81-81.ebr1.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.153.9) 166.493 ms
9 ae-2-2.ebr2.newyork1.level3.net (4.69.135.186) 166.700 ms 167.425 ms 168.243 ms
10 ae-62-62.csw1.newyork1.level3.net (4.69.148.34) 168.031 ms 167.538 ms
ae-82-82.csw3.newyork1.level3.net (4.69.148.42) 168.819 ms
11 ae-71-71.ebr1.newyork1.level3.net (4.69.134.69) 168.592 ms
ae-81-81.ebr1.newyork1.level3.net (4.69.134.73) 166.472 ms
ae-61-61.ebr1.newyork1.level3.net (4.69.134.65) 167.677 ms
12 ae-41-41.ebr2.london1.level3.net (4.69.137.65) 167.766 ms
ae-43-43.ebr2.london1.level3.net (4.69.137.73) 167.754 ms
ae-42-42.ebr2.london1.level3.net (4.69.137.69) 167.882 ms
13 vlan103.ebr1.london1.level3.net (4.69.143.93) 167.297 ms
vlan101.ebr1.london1.level3.net (4.69.143.85) 167.796 ms
vlan103.ebr1.london1.level3.net (4.69.143.93) 166.458 ms
14 ae-23-23.ebr2.frankfurt1.level3.net (4.69.148.194) 165.179 ms
ae-24-24.ebr2.frankfurt1.level3.net (4.69.148.198) 168.929 ms
ae-23-23.ebr2.frankfurt1.level3.net (4.69.148.194) 165.134 ms
15 ae-72-72.csw2.frankfurt1.level3.net (4.69.140.22) 166.229 ms 171.583 ms
ae-62-62.csw1.frankfurt1.level3.net (4.69.140.18) 166.542 ms
16 ae-3-80.edge4.frankfurt1.level3.net (4.69.154.136) 168.808 ms 167.824 ms
ae-2-70.edge4.frankfurt1.level3.net (4.69.154.72) 177.082 ms
17 accelerated.edge4.frankfurt1.level3.net (212.162.25.6) 167.854 ms 182.773
Timesaver.js – save yourself some time while logging
> 1. If you suffer from serious illness, depression, anxiety, paranoia, schizophrenia, or other serious problems, seek professional help first. Here's how.

Link is broken. :-(

Also nowhere in the list of happiness suggestions are volunteering and helping others to be found. Says to practice gratitude by appreciating all the good things you have, but never to actually help those less fortunate than you.

The message is happiness is easy, as long as you aren't living below the poverty line or dealing with major problems in your life. Well plenty of people are dealing with both and could really use your help. Helping others might fulfill the gratitude and 'meaningful job' portions of this vanity list too.
The New Ansible Tower Command Line Tool
Regarding the Int / BigInt distinction, other issues besides performance, which haven't historically been prominent considerations in new language designs, are interoperability and transparency. In the current design, a Vector{Int} always has the same in-memory representation as it would in C or Fortran – you can take a pointer to the first array element and pass it to a library function using the C ABI and it will just work. You also know exactly how your data is represented and can reason about it. You know, for example, that a Vector{Int} definitely does not require any additional heap allocation besides the inline Int values and that arithmetic operations on Ints will just be machine arithmetic ops. I think that the transparency of the C data and performance models has been one of the major reasons for C's long-lived success. One of the design goals of Julia is to have similarly transparent data and performance models.
I live in Belize and you can literally pick them up off the reef with a mask and a snorkel (as long as they're in season!). Anyone who has ever tried will know that's easier said than done, however.
The Melbourne Shuffle: Improving Oblivious Storage in the Cloud
IIRC the thermodynamic lower bound is ln 2 kT per bit of final output; for the human genome size that's well under 10^-10 J. Reversible computing may be far off, but I wouldn't assume it's farther off than evolving our successors. (The paper doesn't mention any of this.)
Simple Things You Can Do To Be Happy (2014)
I didn't get it, the pricing was pretty much what I would have guessed. The markup isn't that high, especially considering they're hard to store and ship. Other things have much higher markup (drinks, fashion, any goods manufactured in china). Where is the voodoo economics?
Tax Liberation Day 2014 in the EU – Belgium has the highest taxes in Europe [pdf]
Sometimes in a git project there are self explanatory changes that may not require a commit message (ex 'Update README.md').

'cmt' it's not a replacement for the normal git commit workflow it's just an extra tool that should not be abused but it may result useful when your push doesn't need any special explanation.

Here you can see some examples of git commit messages on real world applications that might have been replaced by a 'cmt' commit:

- backbone https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/49123e9ab1d2ef5... ('Don't be clever')

- angularjs https://github.com/angular/angular.js/commit/5533e48dead5cff... ('work in progress')

- emberjs https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/commit/0f50e9564c04bc641... ('more goodness')

- django https://github.com/django/django/commit/3e2edad9c7c6b980bbc1... ('Missed one')

- gcc https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/commit/adfbb67780c49a809d26bd... ('Adjust')

Thanks anyway for your precious feedback
This is what my startup is working on! Check out https://www.transcriptic.com. It's still early days and we'd love feedback.
That's how I feel about figs. I like them, and will eat lots of them when I'm in Greece or California, but I'm not paying €1 ea. to buy them in Denmark. (Apparently they don't ship well, so are very expensive outside of the areas where they're cultivated.)
One of the problems with encrypting almost everything, even pictures of your dog, is that it no longer brings suspicion ... And programs like these can send any information without you knowing about it.
Encrypted data is not a security protection, it's a security risk! Because you have no idea what information they send. Probably a lot more then they tell you, because there's no way you can find out.
What would be the mechanism for this?

I can think of three possibilities, offhand.

1. Buyers prefer non-DRM, and this influences their buying decision.

2. Buyers of non-DRM ebooks are more likely to lend them or give away copies, and the recipients them sometimes buy a copy for themselves.

3. Buyers of non-DRM ebooks are more likely to lend them or give away copies, and the recipients of them discover a new author that way, and then they buy OTHER books from that author. Since the decision to use DRM or not tends to be made by the publisher, the other books by that author are likely to also not have DRM.

I don't think #1 is likely. I'm sure buyers do prefer non-DRM, but at Amazon it is not generally obvious if a given book has DRM or not. There are hints, sometimes. In the product details it sometimes has an entry for how many copies you can read simultaneously on different devices. If that says "unlimited", it generally means the book has no DRM. If it says a definite number, or says that it is publisher-determined, it means DRM.

If you don't know whether or not the book has DRM, it is kind of hard for it to make the difference in whether or not you buy.

The other reason I'm skeptical about #1 is that I don't think most Amazon customers have had occasion to run into a problem with DRM, and hence probably do not even think about whether or not a book has DRM. Amazon has Kindle reader apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, and for OS X and for all Windows from XP forward. They also have a browser-based Kindle reader that works in Linux and allows offline reading. This means that most people are not going to run into one of the primary DRM annoyances--not being able to access their content on all their devices.

Another DRM annoyance is that it can prevent lending. With physical books, it was common to borrow books from friends, and people want to do that with ebooks. Kindle has support for this. The publisher decides whether lending through the built-in Kindle lending system is supported or not. If they want to disallow it, they have to use DRM (I think). If the book does not have DRM, I think it automatically works with the lending system.

I can see that customers might run into this, so that might provide some reason for them to care about DRM. there might be some preference for non-DRM on the part of buyers indirectly because the buyers want books that they can lend. This is the only way I can think of offhand that most users would (indirectly) notice that a book they are buying has DRM--by seeing that lending is disallowed. In this case, it is the lending vs. non-lending that influences the buying decision, not the DRM vs. non-DRM, but since non-DRM is 100% lending enabled, whereas the DRM books are sometimes lending enabled, and sometimes not, there is a positive correlation between lending enabled and non-DRM.

They should do an analysis of their data that breaks it down by lending enabled vs. lending not enabled instead of by non-DRM vs. DRM.
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