skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, this article answers some of the questions that were left in my mind from the op-ed, which I was surprised it hadn't discussed. After reading the op-ed, it was unclear to me if lots of airlines were flying through this space, or if Malaysia Airlines was unique in doing so. The way it was written almost made me suspect he was defending Malaysia Airlines for having made an unusual decision to fly through space that other airlines were more prudently avoiding. But the article you link here mentions that flight traffic above 32,000 feet was not much down from pre-restriction levels, so Malaysia Airlines seems to have been doing what was the norm.
Then there should be a way to say:

<a href={{new_link}}>new title</a> [changed from <a href={{old_link}}>old title</a>]
>I personally believe we, as people, will never know the truth as to who did it - was it Ukrainians or the rebels or the Russians.

Is this really disputed? There are people with agendas trying to spin it one way or the other, but given that the rebels initially claimed responsibility for it, and the fact the Russians probably wouldn't make this mistake (it's easy to check if something is a commercial aircraft), it looks almost certain it was the rebels mistaking the airliner for a military plane.
While it's nice to think that airlines can just rely on regulators to tell them which flight paths might be unsafe, the reality is that there's no international regulatory agency governing acceptable flight paths. There's a regulatory agency for every country and while one country might have stringent safety measures, another might not.

In such an environment it seems naive for an airlines to not include the safety of the flight path in their calculations. If all civilian flights below 32K feet are forbidden by the Ukrainian authorities, that doesn't automatically mean that flying just 1000 feet above would be safe. Also while other airlines are guilty of flying over war zones too, that doesn't mean Malaysian airlines is not.
I'm confused on the implementation of something like this. HSTS is an HTTP header, so it is up to the HTTP server, not the DNS server. How is HSTS enforced at the domain layer?
Yeah, I've been shocked by how easy it is to get a brand new router and set it up with the same SSID and password and every device I have auto-connects like it's the same thing. If you have the AP password, it's trivial to set up a fake second router in the same vicinity (you don't even have to touch the original one) with a stronger signal and have everyone connect through your gateway.

Of course, once you have the AP password there's a lot you can do to the network traffic anyway, but it'd still be nice if the computer would pop something up and say, "The configuration of this device does not match the known configuration - do you still want to connect?"
The actual title of the article is One of a kind.
Not really common in European restuarants. They bring you a card machine, you swipe and add the tip right there on the machine.
While that is completely true, its somewhat unlikely to go from the mid point of the distribution to the tails. Its not impossible, of course, but its less likely. The 5th to the 50th certainly suffers from that problem, however.
Great response but you didn't need to start with the chest thumping ("world renowned university", "(qualified) opinion"). I almost completely skipped reading it because it makes you sound like a blowhard.
I don't really know enough about the maths here to interpret the background to this project, but going on the way it's written, I'm concerned the author may be suffering from schizophrenia. I'd recommend seeking advice from a mental health professional.
That's what the moderator currently does.
> It's odd to have something attributed to me that I did not submit.

They could just change the submitter and add something like "Originally submitted by xxx" below it to let people know it's been changed.
Chrome and Firefox both have a preloaded list of sites that should always use HSTS. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/11/01/preloading-hsts...
A joke is only funny the first time. Exceptions to this are very rare. This is not one of them.
OSX and I assume iOS does do detection of this. If you connect to an AP that was WPA2 encrypted in the past, and has the same name but no encryption now, it gives you a big scary warning and bails out.
If HTTPS is used globally, people can't be flagged for using it (or the flags end up being useless). Right now, you are correct, people could hypothetically be flagged for using HTTPS. This would not happen if every static blog and what not out there would use it.

Thank you for reinforcing my point, I appreciate the help.
Bringing immigrants and the poor inexpensive, neutral broadband is the best argument for net neutrality.
It's not a cop out. There are many parties which share blame: the Public for its fearful ignorance and fear, the prisons for profiteering and massive media and lobbying influence, law enforcement for enforcing the "lex malla" of drug policy with violence, various government organizations of various nationalities (including to a large degree the US) for using hard drugs as a tool to manipulate political, social, and economic situations, assassinations, cartels and gangs that sell drugs to fund human trafficking and murder, the list goes on…

There's a lot of blame to go around. The prisons share a whole lot of it.
I noted that on the article. Hopefully they will correct it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057767
I wonder if any H-1B workers would have been among those laid off by Microsoft.
I feel like the first was more art project than joke. I agree that recreating it isn't of much value.
I'd say it's a clever approach... but it has scaling/UI issues. Nice to see some research dealing with the forest instead of the trees!
Has anyone tried using the configurator? I'd give it a go but it looks like it might completely wipe devices prior to applying the settings.
Public discussion doesn't hurt anybody.
In Illinois, a plurality of offenders are in prison for domestic violence.
the sidebar of the article you link to says:

Ideology: Communism, Marxism-leninism, Neo-Stalinism

having the word in the name doesn't actually make it socialist.
Here in Germany it works like this:

1) You get the check with a total
2) the waiter hands you a mobile card terminal (like this: http://pay-tec.de/cms/paytec/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1.jp... )
3) You put your card in the terminal
4) waiter enters amount to pay + what you said you'd tip
5) You see the total, enter your PIN, press confirm
6) waiter hands you back your card.
Psychologically it is not the same. One action requires you to get out a credit card and then later do more work to get a refund. One of theM is actually free. Not to mention that this only covers 1 of the 2 major platforms. No free demo refund on iOS. What would you propose for iOS games?
Sierra Nevada.

An interesting follow up that just occurred to me: there was a surge in PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) through hikers back during the dot-com bust. The theory was that lots of unattached moderately wealthy suddenly jobless young people took advantage of the situation. Since it does take something like 6 months and about $7k (USD), it's something that I've never done and feel like maybe I missed my opportunity when I was laid off. The younger and less attached you are, the better, so just consider that the next time you are between jobs. Of course, there's also other super long trails (AT, PNT, GET, etc) to take your pick from.
Some seniors face tough elections, others don't. Republican seniors in Alabama only face compition in the primary and little real completion at that.
I am going to have to disagree with you and point you to certain facts that are coming out of the crash site.

People are looting personal items and 'evidence' [1]

The rebels are blocking access to the investigation [2]

The rebel commander has fired warning shots at investigators [2]

Now I ask you again, do you really think they will be successful this time?

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/heartless-looters-raid...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/mh17-crash-pro-...
As much as I don't want to make the best the enemy of the good, I'm really skeptical of "decriminalization". Yeah, you won't get sent to jail for it, but if you don't make it legal, you are still dealing in a black market commodity. That means that you'll still have criminals with no access to the legal system supplying the stuff, so you won't see the same reduction in drug-related violence and you won't see quality control.

With heroin at least, the "bad batches" that kill people (and have killed a number of my family members and people in my extended social circle) tend to be the ones that are purer - people know that they usually need 1 bag to get high, then suddenly there's twice as much heroin in a given bag because the batch is purer than they expected and it causes a bunch of people to OD. This problem would be solved if it were legal and you could buy it in a store from a person who you could sue if they caused your wrongful death, but decriminalizing heroin wouldn't do anything for that.

Furthermore, this doesn't reduce the incentive that Mexican drug gangs have for killing thousands of people to secure their territory along the border, because you'd still need to produce the drugs somewhere and smuggle them into rich countries like the US.

Certainly it'd be nice if in addition to all these other horrible problems we also didn't spend a ton of money throwing people in jail for using drugs, but honestly I don't see decriminalization as anything more than a stepping stone on the way to full legalization of all drugs.
Make sure you use this with H9RBS.js - it'll make your website really responsive.

http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
My 3D-printed Big-Ass SmarTwatCh
I always assumed that companies like Coinbase offered very favourable terms for building in Bitcoin support in the interest of driving forward public awareness of the currency. Obviously if Bitcoin becomes a major thing, then Coinbase is very well positioned.
It's a European thing. And actually very comfortable if you can get those little things between your toes while your socks are on.
Here's a comment of mine from that thread explaining what he posted, how it changed, and what happened [~]:

This story was in the first position on the front page less than an hour ago. It was there for hours. The link was then changed from [0] to [1], and within thirty minutes, it was on the second page at number 47. (It first took a drop to around 17, hovered there for a while, then hit 47.)

Could we have an explanation of what's going on here? How can penalties from flagging be this steep for a story with 200 upvotes and 90 comments? Why did the position suddenly change shortly after the link was changed, but not right away?

[0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/07/15/documents...

[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...

[~] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8054173
I doubt most people of that generation will change their mind. Sad as it is, real change will come about as the generation dies off, something that has already started.
Portuguese Railroad Company Was Really Into Snowballs
See this article:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28356745

Looks pretty heavily trafficked to me. And a lot of airlines are now saying that they will avoid that area, when they were presumably using it before.
Federal Trade Commission: Zapping Rachel Robocall Contest
Awesome. Just backed it, and I see you've blown past the stretch goals. Excited to see where you take this!
See: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/17/world/europe/m...

I don't know if "most" is true, but Air France and British Airways were avoiding it at least, and I recall reading Delta had been as well.
According to the linked article, Air France and some other foreign airlines were the only ones to avoid Ukraine.
> The best we can get is to have one dominant government

You think that would resolve everything hey ? Don't you think one dominant government would actually have no incentive to listen to the population and could impose its right by might alone ?
Many did cross - even Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines. Spiegel gathered some flight data from flight radar.com. The article is in German but you can scroll to the bottom to see the list: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/malaysia-airlines-mh17...
Where's Jordan in all of this?
In one sense, this has been an engineering challenge since mid-June 1944.

Modern warfare and international politics might look very different if SRBMs were convincingly obsoleted.
This is an incredible video, but I can't work out if the voice-over is a real person trying to sound like a machine, or surprisingly good text-to-speech synthesis.
Because the community is fallible.
Thanks Anthony! Our intention was to keep the web as simple as possible, shall work on the detail a bit more. We are currently putting together a video to illustrate it further.
Hopefully this product can be of help to you. In any case, I've done design for 10 years, if you need immediate help, hope I can provide a few cents worth :)
It varies quite a bit by subreddit, of course. Some mods like to rule their little fiefdoms.
From the creator of Atom's web page:

"""
Atom

Atom is a Haskell DSL for designing hard real-time embedded software. At Eaton, we use it for automotive control systems. Based on guarded atomic actions, and similar to software transactional memory, Atom enables highly concurrent programming without the need for mutex locking. In addition, Atom performs compile-time task scheduling and generates code with deterministic execution time and constant memory use, simplifying the process of timing verification and memory consumption in hard realtime applications. Without mutex locking and run-time task scheduling, Atom can eliminate the need and overhead of RTOSs for many embedded applications.
"""
I worked technical support for a POS company that was in a very large chain of fast food pizza joints, which was owned by a company that did POSes for a lot of customers.

Their security was abysmal. My SSH key had to be manually added to 75% of systems because the automated system didn't work. All of the systems were running on an EOL version of a desktop version of Linux.

On the topic of this video, on the machines were all employees SSNs in a Postgres database, along with loads of other personally identifiable information.
You would have to attach a cable and, on recent iOS versions, press a button to trust the device (and I think enter the passcode - not sure - but not if the device gets shipped to Apple).
Interesting report on the flight path on BBC news yesterday - they showed that most European airlines flew directly over Ukraine ... British Airways however, have been skirting the country entirely, either going North or South depending on available corridors.

That could just be the usual British "better safe than sorry" mentality, but I suspect they were perhaps given intelligence that suggested unstable rebels had access to SAMs.
Yes. Alamo is pretty much the only theater I'll go to. They don't have the best screens at most locations but theres more space and a table between each row. Here in Austin where Alamo started we have several of them around town and even a few competitors trying the same thing with a little more luxury. This is where theaters need to go to get my business. Total experience not just video and sound.
Thank you for all the great suggestions. The competitions are interesting. Reaching gym members through trainers may be hard unless we provide value for the trainers to have their gym members use the app (eg, both trainer and gymgoer can access the data at any time to track progress- a potential future update for our app).

We realize a lot of volume is needed to make this work with the current setup, but at the moment we are thinking to build interest in tracking through our application amongst regular gymgoers, build momentum this way, and then go after a trainer-to-gymgoer benefit, if this is something that's found to be needed.

Relationship management seems to be a hole in the gym system at the moment, but I don't believe there's an easy fit-all solution to that problem, so we're not pursuing it here.
Decriminalization will (presumably) allow needle exchange programs reducing the spread of many diseases such as HIV and Hep C. Many places already have such programs regardless of criminality. It would be a lot easier for such programs and legislation allowing for access to clean needles to survive in a climate of decriminalization than one where even possession of needles themselves is a crime. I think Portugal more than proves that full legalization is not necessary for benefits, despite being the obvious rational choice.
he looks healthy and beautiful to me.
To be fair, the generation currently in power saw a lot of people getting "lost" in drugs during the heroine-friendly '70s. In a way, I can see how some of them could react by becoming more rigid in their approach to the issue.
That's interesting. I wonder what the return is on that, and especially how many people who run actually are interested in fitness beyond running (as far as I've seen, runners tend to enjoy running and perhaps one or two other extreme sports, but not generally gym-workouts. In terms of tracking running, there are better running-specific apps and devices on the market.)
Why not have a public edit history? (Or why not show multiple versions, one grayer or smaller print?)
>One thing we're willing to trade away–if it's a clear win for quality–is fidelity to the original submission.

What worries me about this is how bias comes into play. For example, what if a mod thought a pro-Republican view on an issue had higher fidelity than a neutral view? Sure it might not always be that blatant or obvious, but this is an area I'd think twice about editing so the stories don't reflect what you think is ideal.
Report: Climate changing more rapidly than at any point on record
Yes, this is how it works in many places in Europe. I really wish I saw this in the US, such a shame.
That link ignores sunlight.

Average Corn yield is ~160 bushels per acer. 60lb per bushel. An acre is 4,046 square meters. A square meter gets 1kw in full sunlight. Call it 8 hours a day of sunlight. Corn takes 63 to 92 days so you can get 2 yeilds per year in some area. Call it 72 for sweet temptation. 72 * 8 * 4,048 / 160 / 60 = ~242 kwh worth of sunlight per pound of corn.

Note: Solar cells are ~22% efficient but they also work all year.
It's pretty high according to Alexa:

Global Rank: 9,789 / United States: 9,622

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/example.com
It's very good text-to-speech synthesis. The voice sounds similar to "Mike" from http://www.naturalreaders.com But I cannot be certain.
You can get it from bower or just take the stuff in the dist folder. It doesn't depend on npm at all. If you don't use commonjs it'll be published to the "rome" global variable.
Yes, the TSA gives you a "redress number" if you're mistaken for someone on the No Fly List. You plug that into your airline's website, and then you aren't bothered anymore.

I have one! But only because I have TSA Pre✓. (Quite possibly the best government program ever.)
Pirate Bay traffic has doubled post-ISP blocks
> It's a European thing.

Pff. Socks in sandals is basically considered a fashion-sin by most people. But I can only speak for my part of Europe.
Content and Its Discontents
I was once the receiving end of such editing and I thought the mods did the right thing (Added a better link).

It's probably a good idea to give some visual indication to submissions that are tampered with though.
How Israel's “Iron Dome” works
7 Tx children survive 377 days of hell on earth
-walks at 1mph for optimal browser closing
It's publicly known who the HN mods are AFAIK so if they were personally benefitting from changing the links the community would know about it.

>> "Or to blogs where the opinion expressed shares their view or supports the interests of whoever?"

This is what got me thinking about the dangers of attribution, particularly when linking to a political article.

I think the reasons for changing titles and links (click-bait, blogspam instead of source) is sound but we as a community need to police it and generally that's done pretty well. When links or titles are changed there is usually a comment from someone who noticed and the comment usually lets people know of the original link/title.
The problem in US is grown ups being way too loud in their laughing, shouting and talking. In any other country I've been it's accepted that cinemas are supposed to be a place where you listen to the movie rather than your neighbor, but in US it appears to be a social experience that you loudly share with your friends.
In many ways this is bigger news than the layoffs. At Microsoft vendors are supposedly accountable for managing their own workforce and providing milestone or service level based work products for pay, not staff augmentation. Of course many managers game the system and many ex-employees come right back as vendor staff.

This seems to be aimed at getting the company off of the vendor addiction. If successful, it seems reasonable to expect another round of layoffs of the couple thousand employees whose primary responsibility is setting up and managing vendors. When your "team" is over half vendor staff, your job isn't building software, marketing, or event planning: it is setting up and managing vendor contracts and measuring vendor performance.

It is also worth noting that this is US-only. Tata, Infosys, Wipro etc. need not worry too much...
This is a fantastic post, and nails down one of the most frustrating contradictions I encounter online: People whose salaries are ultimately paid by advertisers complaining about low income people making self-sabotaging decisions.

Either advertising works or it doesn't. Insofar it works, it's basically coercion. If it pays for things we love it's because we're indirectly paying for them + the advertising industry.
It's nice to see someone as important as Linus just act so normal, as if he didn't create some of the most important software in the world. I really like that he doesn't espouse minimalist, nitty-gritty Linux distros, but rather just likes stuff that works.
I think the HN community will much prefer having an unmoderated HN over a moderated HN with a bit higher quality as the main reason why people come here, is that the content here is solely selected by the community.

If however, people find out that HN is much more a controlled environment, they will surely turn away from HN. So instead of trying to control the whole thing just in return for a bit of increased quality, rather sacrifice a bit of quality for an open HN. Of course there can be some moderation, however, it becomes a bit tricky when titles and content is changed, and upvotes are controled.
I agree that it's a step forward, just that I think it doesn't address the biggest problems and it's not a solution. It certainly helps with the health problems, but it's only a good step in the sense that nearly anything is better than the situation we have now.

I think another thing you should take from the Portugal situation is that full legalization would be unlikely to have many costs, because you're already making it so that the average consumer can get drugs anyway, so from their perspective the drugs are already "legal". Going from decriminalized to legal can more or less only have upsides.

If you want to say, "Hey, let's decriminalize it first, see how people react, then legalize it", that's great. If you are trying to say, "Keeping it illegal but not punishing the users as much is a good long-term compromise", that's where I'd push back. It helps, but all the biggest issues are essentially still there.
It's important to note the in the strictest sense, marijuana is still 100% illegal everywhere in the United States. The federal gov't is currently taking a watch-and-wait stance, but that can change in a single election.