skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rolling your CDN on VPS instances isn't exactly cost-effective, and is probably more of an exercise for fun than anything else. Unless you need features out of your CDN that you can't get from existing CDN providers, I don't really see the point.

also kind of unusual that this blog post is by the president of MaxCDN.
I seem to recall that there's an authentication handshake in place with modern protocols so your phone won't connect to any random "cell tower" to prevent abuse like this. Anybody know for sure? But of course if the police or Harris has an agreement with the wireless companies, they may have the authentication credentials pre-loaded allowing them to impersonate said wireless companies at will.

[edit for clarity]
The interesting part for me was the claim that brief, intense exercise was actually less dangerous than low-intensity, more prolonged exercise for the elderly.

That's not intuitive, to me -- I would have assumed that old folks should avoid sudden bursts of exercise (as "shaking things up" all of a sudden might provoke a heart attack or stroke).

I assume they'd still need to choose their activity carefully to avoid falls (particularly for osteoporosis or other known problems), but that's a separate question, and manageable with a little planning.
Hey look, it's GPLv3. So the only people using it are probably writing malware. I don't expect any commercial windows shops or anyone at MS will use this tool. That said, seems like a pretty cool project.
It looks like this website may have that information http://www.cellreception.com/
Establishing a baseline signal strength might be difficult due to environmental factors.
Did you have a website to promote your app?

Edit to add: no judgment implied; I'm just curious.
There's reason to believe that book is seriously exaggerating matters. Read the analysis at:

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/22530

TL;DR: the examples available in the Amazon excerpts from that book are all felonies which the "average adult" would not be involved in, certainly not multiple times a day. (Unless you lead a very eventful life.)
Why is npm indispensable?
I would guess that you wouldn't be able to make a call through the Stingray.
Good examples of the futility of such a project are the tsunami stones of Japan. There are hundreds of them dating back centuries, some of which quite literally say "Do not build your homes below this line. Giant waves occasionally destroy everything closer to the sea." We even knew the meaning of these markers, and still chose to ignore them.
hey. thanks for the feedback. Yeah, it's more of an exercise for fun but it can also be done w/ high bandwidth dedicated servers as well. It's good as well if it's heavily dynamic stuff that needs really low latency and you need to execute something custom on the edge. Otherwise MaxCDN.com or a similar service scales better. I'm looking forward to building more custom stuff into our edges at MaxCDN.com so feel free to throw out any ideas. This was used to create a presentation for a docker meetup.
Thanks for sharing. Note that there's a typo in the link to Ewan's github profile (should start with https, not ttps).
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thanks. will get it fixed shortly. this wasn't really scheduled for prime time but started taking off. appreciate the feedback!
Speculation: Dot-com boom, followed by the dot-com crash affected everyone, including academia.
Three different ways of writing the same thing
For big business? Nil. Big business doesn't need 3rd party cloud services other than as something to sell to offset their own infrastructure investment.

As to who these sanctions are biting. Sanctions always bite someone, but rarely do they hurt leaders. I think often they can help extend a regime's grip because it plays into propaganda.

Also, if sanctions were imposed generally for dicking about in other countries on dubious pretexts, then nobody would be trading with the UK or US right now. Glass houses and all that.

edit - if you want to influence Russia at the moment, either you please Putin, or work out how to get rid of him. Pissing him off won't help. He is a very experienced KGB guy who has oversaw the period of Russia returning from a brink of near dissolution to a state that is at least functioning, and people put up with a lot of crap to have something that functions.

There are parallels with China here in that the insanity of the Mao years can be used to justify putting up with a lack of political freedom today, on the basis that at least the current leaders aren't completely crazy. In Russia, people compare Putin with Yeltsin and think that things could be a lot worse as at least Putin can find his arse with both hands and isn't pissed all the time. Is the political version of New Coke.

To that end, any sanctions that do not actually destabilise Russia are probably counter productive and any that do destabilise Russia are just plain dangerous.

The question we really need to answer quickly is what does Putin actually want. If he is a Napoleon in waiting, we should try and depose him rather than pussyfooting around, whereas if he is merely a bit of a despot but not intent on conquest then it would be better to keep him happy and wait.

The Crimea doesn't really tell us much on that as it is where the Black Sea fleet has been kept since Potemkin's time, and so can be argued as a defensive as much as an offensive move. I am somewhat cheered by Putin's apparent lukewarm views towards the separatist movements in eastern Ukraine, though this could be a complete front.

I was convinced that he was going to try and force and hold a land corridor to the Crimea and the fact that this has not been done (yet) might indicate that Putin is not so much intent on expansion but is just keeping the whole thing warm to keep folk busy, much like China does with North Korea. If that is true, then hopefully he has had a bit of an 'Oh Fuck' moment with the airliner going down.
Very pretty. I built a (less pretty) digital version a few years ago[0], based on some really neat projects by this guy[1]

[0]: http://kapamaki.net/muon-detector/
[1]: http://www.hardhack.org.au/
FCC isn't involved in this? I mean.. could a private party set up a fake cell phone tower legally?

Just asking because I don't know.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. I'm guessing yes but the only thing that gave it aways was the use of the word Lebensraum.
Did you by any chance try it while on port/coastal/tropical town? I know not everybody likes it, but having grown up eating and drinking coconuts I love the stuff. And yes, the packaged water found in grocery stores here (U.S.) is not quite the same, but I do buy one by 365 (Whole Foods brand?) which is cheaper and IMO better that the alternatives found here.
Bose accuses Beats of using patented noise-cancelling tech
S being the entropy and q being the heat, thermodynamics for the win.
This gizmodo article reeks of sensationalism. They go so far as to say half of his face got "older and wrinkly," while the other half stayed "exactly the same," even though it's plainly obvious that all of his face has aged, both sides have wrinkles, and the half that was struck by the beam isn't the same as it was since the accident. At the very least I'd love to see more information substantiating the claim.

An article explaining part of the reason why I'm suspicious: http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/24/i...
Ask HN: Computer security / hacker
I want to learn more about compute security or in other words I would like to become a hacker. Maybe white hat or black hat in the long Idk if being a Blackhat is illegal or not but I want to learn more about computer security and fully understand everything.

Any good books,tutorials or videos on this matter?
I thought the same, but after their cast on "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity" I'm not so sure.
Some "ethnic" (ex. Asian) stores will sell small glass bottles of it (they look like miniature coca cola bottles), sometimes the come in with chunks of coconut.

Not sure how fresh/healthy/pasteurized/sweetened they are but I seem to like those best out of the ones I tried.

Can't even tell you the brand. There were two that had the same packaging and one tasted better.

And yes, it was sweeter.
Extremely nice UX design! I started building something like this (static pages with cms) recently, it yours looks like a good enough realisation of the concept that I'll go with it instead of continuing my project.
I have to point out none of the problems you point out are specific to HIIT.

Over training, lack of warmup and lack of technique can be problems with any exercise regime.
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Wonder how they're interfacing with iMessage. As far as I know the binaries are heavily obfuscated and have no public interfaces.

I'm guessing the name is based on Jeeves?
They don't have ACID transactions. We had to put up a page to dispel some of the misuse of the term ACID. Aerospike's excerpt:

"Aerospike does not provide true ACID transactions. Just like Cassandra 2.0, Aerospike only provides compare and set, and misleadingly labels it as ACID."

https://foundationdb.com/acid-claims
But you can get to infinite temperature from either direction. So it's more a curiosity of notation: instead of temperature T, the more natural thermodynamic concept is β = 1/T.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta
Also from the US and California. I bet the guy above us has bad teeth and likes Dr. Who.
The USB 3.0 ethernet adapters are also quite good if you're not running OS X (and thus don't have thunderbolt support).
Ever notice how people from the UK tend to generalize in a condescending way that only really serves to highlight their backward, provincial attitudes? Sort of like this?
Interesting. How can this truly be unlimited (albeit 15 minute) tasks?
There's no way I'm giving you my personal info without knowing what your pricing structure looks like. It's in the HN title, but it's not on the site.
Crimea is basically Russian, the vast majority of the population identifies themselves as Russian, 77% of the population only speak Russian. It was "given" to Ukraine after the fall of the USSR and was an autonomous region, it was part of Russia for like 200 years. To me, they had the right to "bring back" and protect people that were of their kind, Ukraine government even wanted to ban the Russian language in Ukraine!

Let me give you an example, in the south of Latin America there's a kind of country people that share a culture of the same origin and are present in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, they are "gaúchos". Lets say tomorrow the north of Brazil takes over and outlaws being gaúcho. Wouldn't the gaúchos in Argentina and Uruguay be right to be against that? Give me a brake. Western corporate media is bullshit factory and propaganda machine, I don't find it trustworthy at all. I'm brasilian, BTW.

Also, nobody talks that US is supporting their side with propaganda, money, arms, "military consultancy" since the start of all this. Apparently a USAID "non-profit" even gave out cakes to people during the revolution, how cute!

From my point of view, the West side is obscuring facts waaaaaay more, but you can't know without really digging(well, that's the whole point, right?)

How about people angry with their government was "the will of people must be respected" 5 months ago, but now people against the new one are "terrorists" and "send the army against them! Here, take some military consultancy". It would funny if it wasn't tragic. Sorry, but it's really easy to expose the USG hypocrisy, turkey anyone?
How to get publicity on the radio and get podcast appearances
In international contracts, the activity might be legal under one state but illegal under another. Which law applies? Without some reasonable language to cover it, I guess one could end up with one party to the contract between a rock and a hard place. Their legal entity in one nation bound by a contract in that nation, with their legal entity in the other nation bound by the laws of the land. I don't know the intricacies of all of this, but I suspect things could get ugly without some defined behavior built into the contract in such instances.
I can't seem to validate '100$/month'. Do I have to sign up in order to see that info?
I am skeptical of the widely-held view that induced exercise extends lifespan. To my knowledge, there has been no study that demonstrates the effect that could be considered definitive. The physiological mechanism seems like wishful thinking. Reducing resting blood pressure is undoubtedly a good thing. But to lower resting blood pressure through exercise, your blood pressure has to be increased during exercise. So you haven't really changed the equilibrium. The likely result would be to reschedule cardiovascular events away from periods of rest to periods of exercise.
The article is wrong on a key point. Stingrays don't "force" your cell phone to do anything. Your cell phone reaches out and connects to it of its own accord. The Stingray doesn't reach out and collect private data from your phone. Your phone transmits your private data into the aether at the user's direction.

How do you reconcile this techno-literalist interpretation of Stingray with your techno-intentionalist interpretation of the Aereo decisions[0][1]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7945159 (referring to Aereo's "contrived" business model that is based on a strict view of the technology's function as a really long antenna cable)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7944271 (referring to Aereo using a "technicality")

[2] Other comments abound, but I didn't want to keep searching.
Actually, with DigitalOcean, you get quite a lot of bandwidth for the price. Additionally, their transfer limits are high (1TB for the $5 instances), and overage is only $0.02/GB. If you combine this with something like Route 53's anycast latency-routed DNS, it can work very well.
1 minute of sit ups or push ups isn't going to be very effective.

Jogging is great in a park, but for a lot of people a lot of the time it's not practical because of either the weather (running isn't great fun in the rain / snow) or safety (some people can only find time to run after dark and for women that isn't sometimes safe).

So it's bad advice to say avoid the gym, as people should be finding any opportunity to exercise, not more excuses / rules to tell them not to.
Makes me wish Flow Concierge was never discontinued.

http://www.getflow.com/blog/2012/05/introducing-flow-concier...
I don't see why they would need to interface with iMessage at all. Perhaps I'm missing something, but it just seems like they're responding to text messages sent to a particular number.
I also don't see any legal information.
This endeavor misses the whole point. There are two possibilities for 10,000 years from now.

1. Humanity is extinct.
2. Humanity is extant.

The first possibility means we can ignore any need for markers, let's focus on the second.

If people are still around, there are two possibilities.

1. They still understand radioactivity enough to detect it beforehand, or to recognize it after it has made people sick.
2. People have no sophisticated culture that can understand radioactivity.

Only if the latter is true, would any warnings be necessary.

If this is the case, what obligation do we have to those people? Literally any action we perform right now could lead to the eventual death of some arbitrary person thousands of years in the future. Butterfly effect and all that.

Is this place going to make the human race extinct? Possible, but unlikely. So we're talking about killing a few hundred people in the next few million years, supposing there is some sort of Hollywood-esque unfolding of history with its apocalypse and long-haired swordsmen going on quests in the aftermath.

We already do our nuclear (and other) engineering knowing that people are going to get killed. Hell, when we build bridges, we know that statistically one or two will be killed. And when a nuclear power plant is built, it's even bigger... someone will likely be killed. Over so many years of operation, someone will be killed (and not necessarily from some Three Mile Island thing, a person will be stressed out in the office and have a heart attack).

So if in the span of 10,000 years some savage dumbasses who fucked up and wrecked civilization die of radiation poisoning, what's the big fucking deal? Refusing to deal with our need for nuclear power, refusing to build the waste disposal facilities that such needs because we can't come up with some universal symbology to mark it as a dangerous place... that might be the reason that technological civilization does drop dead.
Jarvis is Iron Man/Tony Stark's computer assistant in the movies.
the screenshot they put on the homepage suggests that it does interface with iMessage?
I'm honest about what I am. I don't live to screw people over, in the way that management consultants do. (They invented the stack-ranking practices that destroyed a great number of technology companies, and that are directly responsible for the Enron calamity.) I'm also not trying to maximize my Niceness Score. The world is on fire and I'm not afraid if other people get soaked in the process of saving the damn thing.
Your arguments are the conventional wisdom, but do the statistics support this? Stretching was once thought to be a good way to reduce risk of injury. It was a big part of the conventional wisdom. It isn't that simple, however, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1250267/.

I think a good study would be to track people through something like their first 60 cumulative minutes of exercise after no exercise for, say, 6 months. If that 60 minutes happens in one hour or spread out over a week, is there any significant change in risk? If it is aggressive or gentle, is there any change in risk? This should be studied and verified. If it has, let me know.

I think we should treat all risks like the lottery or keno. Every time you play, your odds reset. This should be the conventional wisdom in all things.
But the code is not competitive.
Maybe it can work. I'm still a little skeptical. But I don't see why you would ever want to deal with managing all this infrastructure yourself when there are many established providers that can likely do a much better job at a comparable price.
>I'm not a racist, but I think all the Chinese do is copy other people's work.
A lot of useful information there, thanks.
Usually JS is the compilation target, not the language being compiled, though.
A difference of kind is evident when people say racism is the same whether referring to racial prejudice by a Black US person or White US person. People are using a 100 year old dictionary definition to say racism is just racial prejudice. Wikipedia's first sentence says it is racial prejudice AND discrimination. While the US Civil Rights Commission is stronger in saying you have to also subordinate someone based on race. You want to say racism is derived from everyone's individual racial prejudice but you miss the economic exploitative motives from 200 years of slavery and group behavior. So let us be clear it is not just personal racial prejudice behind racism. To subordinate someone you really are talking about racial prejudice and discrimination with power backing it based on institutional racism, hence power. Otherwise you are talking about racially based prejudice that is based on the individual and not the group or its historical circumstances. People here want to address racism by lifestyle choices and racism is not fixed by lifestyle but by law, institutional changes, and starting with the recognition of what racism actually is.

The newspapers are not going to report on a street riot if I go out by myself on the street and break windows and set fires. To report me as a street rioter there should be a street riot which makes me part of a group dynamic. Racism is a group dynamic effort to oppress another racial group. If someone is not a street rioter without a group dynamic of street rioting how can someone be racist without a group dynamic of racism to oppress another racial group. To have a group dynamic of racism to oppress another racial group you need power.
Out of curiosity, besides the Russian government-owned media and various crackpot conspiracy theory sites claiming, among other things, that the Jews did it, what news sources are presenting a pro-Russian point of view of this calamity?
Isn't that pretty much the whole Chinese internet industry? At any rate, there isn't much reason to use Baidu outside of china.
WebPG is pretty solid though not totally passive.
The screenshots I see just show a regular text message conversation.
Perhaps. In 2002, the Red Sox hired Bill James, who formulated the sabermetrics that Beane popularized. The GM they chose after Beane turned them down, Theo Epstein, is also considered a practitioner of sabermetrics.
Recently I was developing this kind of application on Android for my personal needs because 3G is recently launched in Pakistan and it is not affordable yet.
Over on /r/math you hear this sentiment a lot from maths postgrads.

The recommendation you hear a lot on that board is that if you are doing a maths degree you should also study something else somewhat complementary (comp sci is a popular choice) and hope to find employment in that field. I had honestly at some point considered doing a Ph.D in Maths but upon further consideration - and realizing then that my future would likely involve low pay, excessive travel, low job stability, and a crushing amount of work - it just seemed like a very sad proposition.
I use 2x Dell UltraSharp U3014 (2560x1600 at 60Hz), I would recommend this monitor only if you want a big resolution and great, rich, vivid colors, it’s IPS though. Avoid any version previous to A03.
Then they are sending signals to my computer system (phone) in order to gain access to information without authorization.

Do you think you are free to do that?
I'm a US citizen living in china, the Chinese government could seriously mess me up if they wanted to. The US government is a lot more reliable in comparison, though a bit more sinister (in the sense that the Chinese government is obvious in their disregard for rights, the US government is not).
Managing the infrastructure is definitely where it falls short, but if you can get it done quickly it can be very cost-efficient for smaller projects. Three $5 DO boxes can easily handle > 1TB per month, which will cost over $100 on most CDNs.
Do you know where the pink coconut water comes from?

I drink it most every day straight from the coconut or poured into a plastic bag, and it always looks clear as water.
Blue bubbles are for iMessage, green is for SMS.

It also says "iMessage" at the top of the conversation.
>Many scientists tried to replicate the experiment with the few details available. Hopes fell with the large number of negative replications, the withdrawal of many positive replications, the discovery of flaws and sources of experimental error in the original experiment, and finally the discovery that Fleischmann and Pons had not actually detected nuclear reaction byproducts

What's up the reading comprehension today?
That's embarrassing, I know characters from books in the 1800s but not movies in the last decade.
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I've been thinking of try something like this. The way I thought about it was to only run a five minute mile. My plan is to go to the track and sprint for as long as I can at a five minute mile pace. When I drop below that pace, I walk until I return to walking heart rate. Then I run at a five minute mile pace. The workout ends when I have run a cumulative mile at a five minute mile pace. I figure the workout will take about 20 minutes.
Maybe the concierge is using a Mac, or an ipad with Bluetooth keyboard, or a Hackintosh?

Couldn't you script iMessage on OS X with AppleScript, and thereby allow multiple people to interact with the same instance?
Would be nice to see some references for all these unconventional statements