skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HOPE X: Citizens Band Microwave Spectrum And Free Internet For All
Any advice on aeration? Doesn't seem to be covered...
Like a publicly traded corporation, the utility issued bonds to raise resources to invest in the new broadband project. Similarly, just as many private corporations ended up receiving federal stimulus dollars, so did EPB, which put those monies into its new network.

This is kind of a bullshit comparison. The bonds they are talking about are bonds issued by the city of Chattanooga and backed by the revenue of the local electric utility. That isn't something a telco can do. And they are muni bonds so they receive favorable tax treatment (the interest payments on the bond are tax exempt at the federal and state level) which is reflected through lower interest rates (cheaper borrowing costs) for the issuer. So to say that, hey, the local electric utility did a thing that any old telco could do is not realistic. Also the part about receiving stimulus money is really contrived. The utility directly received DOE (Dept of Energy) moneys in a way that none of the big telcos did.
On the opposite, everyone should use it. I love using it for queries I feel embarassed about, like googling for illness symptoms or watching wildlife documentaries.
If you're a student you can likely get a PDF for $0 through your library. But...yeah. Steep price.
Most demos don't push pixels but vertices. Graphics hardware turns that into pixels. If you'd do all pixel rendering on the CPU your code size would maybe, what, double, but you usually don't want that because the GPU is multiple orders of magnitude faster than that. Also, given that most size in demos is taken up by data, not code (except in 4k intros and the likes), it wouldn't make a significant size difference, really - just an effort difference.

Additionally, many effects in modern demos run purely in shaders, written in HLSL or GLSL. The CPU part draws a single rectangle and the rest happens in a shader. Would you count that as depending on system libraries? Shader languages aren't much more high level than C, so its pretty close to the metal. In any case, you can't go more low level because GPU machine code (which HLSL etc compile down to) is pretty inaccessible in practice.
New Research Shows “Leaky Gut Syndrome” May Be Real
It has the same problem of every cryptographic (and not cryptographic - see paper) voting system. It's impossible to create a system that assures both a correct result and voter anonymity.

Paper assures none, but has quite strong guarantees on both. I'd settle on some system that assures the result, and has good guarantees of anonymity, what one can create with pseudonyms, but at that point it's a political debate, not a technical one.
Other than providing a nice interface what does Charles.app do that something like Burp can't?
Do the laws prohibit private companies from installing fast internet? I don't necessarily want a city government running my internet. Cities should not be in the telecommunications business. However, there SHOULD be laws promoting competition and thus restricting the de facto monopoly positions of many providers. Where I live in France, I have, in just my small town of Avignon, at least 5 high speed internet providers available -- resulting in my monthly cost for 120mbs + full cable (all the movie channels) cell phone with unlimited data, unlimited calls to over 49 countries in the world AND home phone (which I never use) for about 70 euro per month. The internet portion of that is something like 20 euro per month, the cell portion is about 15 or so (give or take 3 euro.)

Cities don't need to get in the telecoms business -- however governments do have a responsibility to promote competition. Cities getting into the internet business would be about as efficient as the Post Office getting into the letter delivery business -- a ton of public-union-related waste, bureaucratic inefficiencies as well as an inherit incentive to discourage private companies, thus reducing innovation. You also have the issue of city-run networks being subject to political pressures such as "I'll donate money to your reelection if you allow my content to have preference on the network." You also have the city having access to your usage records and they'd be nothing keeping them from using it for law enforcement purposes without a warrant or your consent. After all, you'd be using city-owned property, thus you really wouldn't have much leverage. The police would certainly leverage that. We all know that most internet traffic isn't going to be safe from NSA-types, however, there's a reasonable belief that NSA-level intercepts aren't filtering down to the local cop on the beat. Maybe it's a bit of paranoia, however based on my experiences with city governments in the US, they are some of the most power-hungry, corrupt sufferers of little-man(woman) syndrome I've ever encountered. These are the same twits that want to ban large sodas because they think they're your daddies and mommies. Yeah, count me out. Last thing anyone needs to do is give a city (or any) government more power to do anything.
a VM still seems pretty good? what are they gonna do, benchmark it? (yes.)

it's also super quick to install and update. just snapshot before browsing anything and restore to there. you can install anything you like, before browsing anything (flash etc). there's no logical way to save any state if you throw away the hard drive snapshot.
I typically use Fiddler (Windows) for this. Dig the article. Very clear steps on how to get setup and start playing around.

I remember a similar article about how the author intercepted the API requests for CandyCrush and was able to give himself lives and whatnot. Pretty neat.
Emotional Detachment in Children with Different Attachment Histories [pdf]
It's not that novel. If an attacker gets root it's game over.

That said, the article is a good reminder of the risk of keeping decrypted keys in a long-running ssh-agent process.
Ask HN: Best mail server practices for deliverability?
I've run my own mail server for a long time. It's not high volume; just me and accounts for various friends. I've never been an open relay or a spam source, but lately I've been getting reports of emails ending up in the spam folders of a major email provider. I'm looking to make sure I have all my email ducks in a row.

If you run your own mail server, what have you done to make sure your mail server's mail is getting delivered? And if you work at a major email provider, what do you recommend legitimate small email hosts do to look maximally non-spammy?
Most of those examples lead to counterparty risk, unfortunately, where there must by some direct trust in the issuer on some level.
And municipally owned utilities can't lobby (read: buy) congresscritters like the telcos can. Life's just unfair to everyone, innit?
The thing that stops them is the lack of a reason to start them. Why would Goldman throw that much money at a new system, rather than using the existing one? Bitcoin has an existing user and development base; it's proven, whether it's at full scale or not. Goldman does not have a guarantee that their hypothetical coin will gain any acceptance outside their walls. And Goldman would have to ask themselves that same question - "If we can create a successful coin overnight, why can't BoA or Chase?" If Goldman can do it, their competitors can, so that $8 billion they apparently have sitting around with no better investments to make is better spent on getting an early hold on Bitcoin.

And, of course, this all assumes that big banks are forward thinking enough to see coins as worthwhile, and that they have the kind of developer power in a new and obscure area to outperform 5 years of FOSS development before anyone else beats them to it.
> Maybe there's some rule out there that no one competes on the basis of transaction fees, and those who do are shut out of the cabal.

Because lowering your price does nothing if your competition can lower theirs just as easily. It's a race to the bottom.
I don't disagree, but it seems weird to treat physical media and digital media of a similar type exactly the same when they are simply aren't the same. The truth is you can make infinite copies of an e-book.
It is my understanding that the AGC is the computer within the PGNCS. Terminology varies, as the last link below from NASA notes.

So far as I can tell, the AGC maintained the state vectors for the KF. Ground control would run batch mode least squares solutions, and pass it on to the LM, where the updates to the state vector would be applied by hand. I freely admit to not having worked through the code, but I believe the state vector update computations occur here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Comanche055/MEASUREME...

sources:
http://www.ieeecss.org/CSM/library/2010/june10/11-Historical...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_PGNCS
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2009001...
This is how you organize your inbox
Interesting, if you hadn't already reported it, I'd go ahead and do that shortly.
Ripple is a rip-off. You buy a gift card and the money stays there..
Seventeen ways driverless cars could change America
> It doesn't get much easier than that

I think a lot of people would argue that sticking with their current system (banks, fiat currency, etc) is, in fact, much easier than that.
Congrats on releasing this great game!

A couple of thoughts.

Tracking:
- If you are not yet tracking your users, start doing that (Google Analytics, Flurry, etc.). The analytics will give you great insights into user behaviour, retention, churn rate, segmentation, etc. Use the data to decide what you should focus on next (e.g. if the user engagement is too low, try focusing on that).

ASO
- Optimize keywords to ensure that you are ranking in the top 10 for each of your keywords. I have written a series of blog posts about this topic (http://blackboardmadness.com/blog/app-store-optimization-aso...) and also developed my own keyword selection/scoring model. I'd be happy to help with this (szilard at blackboardmadness.com).

- Optimize file size: got a warning on the Android Play Store that the file size is very large (probably wouldn't prioritize this too high at the moment, though)

Review/ Rating:
- Allow users to rate your app from inside the game (e.g. use Appirater to prompt users to rate after X app sessions)

Social Integration:
- Deep FB integration (add an invite friends button, post achievements, FB leaderboard integration as in Dots)

Good luck!
"SO goes to great lengths to reduce garbage collection costs, skipping practices like TDD, avoiding layers of abstraction, and using static methods."

I don't understand this at all. What does TDD have to do with reducing garbage collection?
You're not alone: all the people who bought Bitcoin and holding it use Bitcoin mainly as the best store of value in human history. All fiat currencies are being printed like crazy (CHF was an exception, but it changed a few years ago)
I am hopeful that this will show people why municipalities granting monopolies to phone and cable companies is a bad idea.

I've argued this for years, and many of the people who are now pro-net neutrality, in years past would argue that there needed to be these monopolies, because otherwise the infrastructure wouldn't be built, or poor people wouldn't be able to afford it, etc.

In fact, EPB is probably a local monopoly- many power companies are, though that is less the case today than in decades past.
I wouldn't exactly call that trivial if it needs to be "synchronized over a sufficiently long time series."
Disabling Internet for specific processes with libfiu
I imagine his motives for giving a virtually unique gun worth $10K to the local sheriff are pretty straightforward. Keeping the local officialdom on his side... probably not sinister just good politics
On the other hand, 10x concentration is not absurdly high, and if you use this to make tea (that's the kickstarter project) or to purify water (the third world project), you get that 85%.
Obvious way: Sell the "anonymous" users to advertisers to allow advertisers to improve their targeting.

Or... if some legal reason prevents third parties buying data, enhance this: https://advertising.yahoo.com/Advertisers/Mobile/ such that the benefits are worth more than $100m/yr
Haroopad – The Next Document processor based on Markdown
Interesting. Highlighting the vast amount of valuable archives was one of the conclusions The NYT had in their plans for the future.
So, as someone needing to run unattended scripts across a wide variety of hosts, what's the best practice for managing SSH keys? I've been using ssh-agent. Is there a better way?
> There's no inherent problem with publicly funded services

The scale of the problem isn't clear, but I would argue that the economic calculation problem is certainly an inherent problem with publicly funded services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
For those interested in what is happening in and to journalism, I strongly recommend Jay Rosen's blog [1] and Twitter feed. In particular, his work on The View From Nowhere [3] and the Church of Savvy [4] was very helpful to me in understanding how mainstream news, which is theoretically a vital guardian of our democracy, has become dangerously weak.

[1] http://pressthink.org/

[2] https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu

[3] http://pressthink.org/2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-question...

[4] http://pressthink.org/2011/08/why-political-coverage-is-brok...
Interesting. How do you use this?
There's no comparison, from my experience, Flurry is a lot better and more useful. But, I'm not a google analytics guru so its possible google is better if you know how to use it.

That said for the newbie, Flurry was much better.
You're in the wrong ballback here and off by a factor of 1000 - it would be $100B/yr for $0.05 per session. Of course, $0.05 per session for mobile analytics is not reasonable to begin with.
I don't see who is in a position to even want to stop this talk

A government agency that wants to stay a step ahead of the competition or of its targets?
And WinJS https://github.com/winjs/winjs
Thanks Charlie - I'll definitely drop in a note
It is refreshing. I'm glad they are getting some love because they are great to work with.

As far as business users go, they could drop their prices a little, but overall - they are top notch.
No it doesn't resemble MLM more than superficially, because there's no hierarchy or levels of anything of that kind. At worst it is like another bubble in that manner, like tech stock bubbles before it.
maybe a little undeserved, but remember, on HN put on your serious face

>:( <- serious face.
You need to log in as "anonymous" to see ZIP and Tarball links.
You can also make near 0-cost copies of physical books. Only thing stopping you is copyright law.
Just taken a look. I agree there's some stuff in there they probably don't want you or I to know, but no sign of ability to book from what I've discovered.
We are looking at improving jetlang with LMAX. Super excited about this code.
This is an internal representation. JS strings do and continue to behave as sequences of 16-bit integers.

This change takes advantage of the fact that most JS strings fit into an 8-bit charspace, so for those that do, it uses a more compact representation internally.

This optimization is simply: if we have a string and we know that all of the uint16_ts in the string are <= 255, then just store it as a sequence of uint8_ts.
Thanks! I think this is a super interesting thing to do - there's tonnes of great stuff to discover - and something that's not very well documented online. I wanted to make it easy for anyone to do this kind of thing.
Various IRC channels across freenode; generally social spaces.
While this is probably very close to foolproof, it is just insane that our best method to accomplish "DNT" is to... throw away all changes at an OS level :|

It is incredibly alarming to consider how much control over our own damned gear we've lost over the past 10-15 years.
Your articles are entitled "Learning Vim" so one could expect a little bit more depth and actual "teaching". And not promoting crap like Janus… installing that shit is the opposite of learning. It's like paying someone to do your homework for you.

http://benmccormick.org/2014/07/07/learning-vim-in-2014-work...

was ridiculous.

In "Buffer Management", you don't talk about :find or command-line completion or the wildmenu or the possibility to use mappings or the fact that one can use buffer names to navigate or tag-based navigation. And under "Plugins", the following sentence (and the mandatory list of plugins) is not really helping you to get your point across:

The good news is that Vim has solutions. They're just not baked into the Vim core.

Seriously, don't do that under a "learning vim" umbrella. That series should be called "Get Vim to look like all those screenshots without worrying about learning to use it".
Professional auditing and security testing should be necessary for any piece of software from which it's possible to drain large sums of money, regardless of who's running the software or holding the money. In fact, I'd argue anything less constitutes an ethical breach on the part of the lead engineer(s).

I'm not really sure why that particular regulation is so onerous in any of these situations, since any responsible team would be thinking about security throughout, including and especially post-development.

At least in principle (maybe you'd prefer different auditing standards or practices -- that's what I mean by in principle).

edit: of course each of these is a different sort of service, and different levels of risk management are appropriate. In particular, the case of Blockchain seems like a real quagmire. I guess it would probably depend heavily on the revenue model.

Really my only point is that I would have a really hard time sleeping at night if I had to sign off on not applying state-of-the-art auditing and testing techniques any of these, even Blockchain. Maybe I'm too crotchety and old-school for bitcoin.
Just tried it - much cleaner than Charles for Terminal lovers like the average HN user.
Is this just your idea? Or is it an actual working solution?

Because people have known about padding for a while and yet we still have methods to de-anonymize TOR networks. When you use those techniques on a minor mesh network like this, it's an order of magnitude easier.

Keep in mind that the cable company or broadband provider doesn't have to have much in the way of proof, just a suspicion and your connection will be terminated.
Hum, each subreddit has its own moderators as well. They also have a front page with questions from the different sites[1], though it's not filtered by the ones you have an account on.

[1] http://stackexchange.com/
You can make infinite copies of a physical book. It just costs more to do so - both in terms of currency and time to copy. But that's where copyright law steps in. You can sell your copy, but you cannot duplicate the content (bar some caveats).
I am. It's less buggy than iOS 8 betas but it's somewhat rough if you're not used to living with beta software. Dock freezes twice a day, Safari's rendering is faster but app itself is quite slow.

Personally I have high tolerance for this, but I know some folks would get frustrated quickly.
Nothing really - I suspect that Charles is more approachable for the average person though. And besides, I hadn't spotted any alternatives when I wrote the article ;)
Privacy Badger - https://www.eff.org/privacybadger - might be able to help. It's like Disconnect or Ghostery, but based on behavior, rather than a blacklist.
85% efficient at taking heat and using it to evaporate water isn't that high, they are not talking about thermodynamic cycles producing work.

This doesn't look like something you would use to drive an engine with as for that you want the high temperatures that go with the high concentration of sunlight, as the amount of work you can get out is directly related to the relative distance of the hot and the cold end from 0K.

edit:

0 - you must play the game

1 - you can never win

2 - you can only break even on a very cold day

3 - it never gets that cold
Amazon at 20: billions, bestsellers and legal battles
What can be done about the Canvas security vulnerability?
Just How Fast is Splice?
We used Flurry last summer, but ended up switching to Localytics who we've been very happy with. The main reason was real-time data (which was really important to us since Flurry was lagging by several days). The nicer UX and faster customer support are big pluses as well.
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/115223/my-openid-pro...
Thanks - that's a great watch.

Essentially they're trying to keep SE from becoming a "chat" community, and keep it focused on being a Q&A community.

With Yahoo Answers, Usenets, even Subreddits, you have people having conversations within posts, which generates noise for people who were looking for answers to questions.
Sorry, I'm not the author, I'm the guy at Stack Overflow that's being cited by the article (Marco C.).
Could you explain that? Compared with traditional currencies, Bitcoin's high volatility and unknown long-term risk profile make it look like a terrible store of value to me. (And, for similar reasons, very attractive to speculators.)
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I thought tracking wasn't logging ("we remember what you look at") per se, but "we remember where you are whenever you use our stuff", but I agree, the difference isn't that larg for desktop use, given that most web servers log IP addresses.

I also reread the web site, and couldn't find a privacy statement. I think there should be one, and hope the product will come with one.
bww, how did you get there initially? What app was it?
Make sure that the SSH keys are tightly restricted in the authorized_keys file so they can only run the commands that need to be run unattended. If possible, also restrict them by source IP address. Here's an example authorized_keys file that I have in production for doing unattended backups:

command="/usr/local/backups/backup_server /etc/snapshot_backup_list",no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty,from="10.70.0.0/16" ssh-rsa AAAAB...

I wouldn't worry unduly about protecting the keys themselves - since they need to be accessible for unattended operation, there's not much you can do to prevent them from being accessible to an intruder.
In what way are the enumerated programs well run? Well run compared to what?
For the Reddit Tip Bot?
process address space != physical memory
Its kind of sad that when you actually want to spend money on specific things, you're met with puke upon puke of advertising, forums infested, reviews scammed, its a hellhole just to finda good router for example.

I guess its an effect of having much money or people willing to potentially spend money in one giant network - internet. You just cant make a review site or forum which is immune to scamming, that is when sellers start hiring people to puppet around their marketing message.
The idea that there was an entrepreneurial "market" thousands of years ago is just wrong. The entrepreneur is a fairly recent social role. Thousands of years ago it was possible, without selling your labour to another person, to make your own living off of the land. This was how most people survived. The aristocratic class was created through the employment of slave labour. Life consisted not of running a business but of social life. Most people were not "business owners" in any sense of the word that would be recognizable to us. So the idea that this is somehow a return to a more ancient way of life is simply wrong.
GENERALIZATION == SUPERSTITION
Extreme Temperature Testing
Could you do it using a docker container for your web browser instead?
Yahoo to Acquire Flurry to Strengthen Mobile Products
Well, that's pretty generic...