skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people want to get high, they will find a way. For me, "Jenkem" is the ultimate argument ender

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem

Fermented human waste in tupper ware in the sun for a day or two. How can you fight a war against that?

Instead try some other approach to education, management, and social state that reduces the number of people who feel driven to this in the first place perhaps.
CL = Craigslist, for those who don't know.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org
what is this dashboard you are referring to?

In most municipalities, all public pools require testing daily. One can assume they're just going to test daily before opening like all the other pools and use that decide whether to open.
Here are some thoughts based on my experience with graphic design (not so much web design.)

First, you might find it interesting to look into Shape Grammars. While shape grammars are a dead end from a creative design point of view, they can capture layout strategies that work but can be varied parametrically. One crucial area that the theme you posted falls down on is balancing negative space around images and panels. Using a shape grammar which constructed the layout with border elements, centered elements, etc. could fix this.

Another thought is to consider the fact that letterpress printing is often taught to design students before computer tools, because it enforces a great degree of discipline in laying out elements. Students move on from that to design with a grid system. The theme "abdvbjtx" on the resimit front page as I look at it is missing a sense of alignment and grid structure, although it is impressively complex in terms of layering. The typographic and rational side of things needs work, basically to bring visual order to all the elements. I think some kind of generative grammar is probably the only practical way to achieve this.

As far as typeface choice goes, that seems to be a weak point but it is such a complex and emotional thing that I doubt it can be automated beyond specifying serif fonts for old-style centered layouts and sans serif for more modern, left-aligned layouts.
Get this going in Manhattan. You'll make a killing there.
yeah, for a while I blackholed china and india with ipfw. Hacking attempts against my server fell like a rock. I felt a tiny bit bad, but if these countries / isps can't police their subscribers, what do they expect.

Eventually I got rid of wordpress/php and just use nginx to serve static files so I felt secure enough to drop the firewall rules.
AES-256 is not the most secure variant of AES any longer, as it appears that variant with key extension improves certain types of attacks. One of those, called a related key attack, requires only 2^119 time against AES-256, and 2^172 time against AES-192. (Time against AES-128 is approximately 2^128, I'd wager about 2^126-127).

This is a very particular kind of attack, however, and it doesn't necessarily mean other weaknesses will be exposed. Cryptographers, though, are a conservative sort by nature, and many feel more comfortable sticking with AES-128, which was part of the original Rijndael specification and what was designed most rigorously. AES-128 also seems to have had the fewest weaknesses developed against it. The fact that any attack succeeded in reducing AES-256 to below AES-128's security can give crypto folks pause.

I think realistically they are all very safe and AES-128 is unlikely to be broken by anything within the next decade. After that? I wouldn't wager.
Holy shit! I work in a medical setting and our institute was considering using Azure to offload some HPC. Azure promises to be the only cloud that has georedundancy but all within EU (AMS and DUB) protected by EU data laws. If this goes through we won't be touching it.

What is wrong with the US judges these days?
In general, it seems as if there might be a market for people who want to get rid of stuff but want to expend near-zero effort doing so even if it means significantly sub-optimizing the revenue received (I raise hand for most any item under $100 or that is a pain to ship/offload.)

I'm fine with getting 50% for stuff that would otherwise sit in my attic or garage. That said, I suspect that this is a tough business. From what I can gather, most of the eBay-based versions of this have pretty much died out.

Edit: And I should add that, for anything that's bulky or a pain to deal with, I want it gone. I guess I'd be OK with smaller consignment items being returned but not furniture.
Ask HN: Recommendations for SAS70 / SSAE16 certification
We work with a lot of large enterprises and are going to need to go through this certification process soon. Any recommendations on consultants / auditors to work with? Any suggestions for going through this process?
I don't know how much has changed since I was doing it, but in the past there was a noticeable difference in dynamic range between digital sensors and film. This was less of an issue for stills since you compose each shot, but with film, especially if you are shooting cinema verité style, you have to especially careful in uncontrolled environments of shadows and light sources to make sure you don't lose info.

I'll add that I think that convenience and workflow is the #1 reason for the change. The cost of film and processing in all but small independent productions is a minuscule part of the budget.
Nice! Maybe this can be made to use stdout so I can grep -v raises.*eries and other money talk...
Sorry, forgot I don't get notifications of comments:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byy0Ndr-t_cjSG5pcHk2bVRTTjQ...
And you can cancel at anytime without fees.

And if you want to use more internet, or call more, or roam, or call foreign countries you can at really small prices. I have the 2€ plan that I use extensively like I'm unlimited and I usually pay 7€ per month in total.

And when I travel I can use my phone now :) the prices before for roaming were ridiculous.
This is hardly the first case of distributed liability. It's just not that complicated, and certainly not an obstacle to such a beneficial technology.
Odd, in the UK I get almost 100% success - plus you get the handy delivered (and optionally read) notifications.
The Linux Kernel Explained (1999)
I think everyone has the right to suicide, and virtually nobody should do it. Exceptions being hopeless, painful, imminent death.

Don't do it, you might miss something.
There are few cold-weather climates in which humidity is a significant concern, and heating tends to reduce absolute humidity.

What's the transition point below which efficiency is markedly reduced?
Back around 96 I went to Nagoya and ate at Denny's. My hosts wanted some Western food that day, I guess.
This should create a niche market within the used furniture market with comfortable ease.
My point to you is that SBC and D&A are actual expenses in every way imaginable. Just because Twitter says not doesn't make it so.
Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent
We'll still send you raw ingredients. This isn't about pre-chopped onions. It's more about the ingredients that take forever to make at home. Think more along the lines of fresh ramen noodles or pre-marinated meats.
This has the right words to make it to the front page...jk I love it. I made something like this for reddit a while ago; I really enjoy stuff like this. It allows you to stay within the terminal rather than keeping the browser open at all times.
I love this idea, but I'd love it even more if you donated stuff if it didn't sell so I didn't have to. Having access to a truck is hard when you live in a city and mostly don't use cars.

And you might want to flesh out a bit more on being a mobile consignment shop. I mean - the problem you're really solving is "I want to buy something on Craigslist, but neither the buyer nor seller have time to move it". No reason that should come with the restrictions of 90 minutes for moving.
Is anyone using Samza outside of LinkedIn? I've been interested in it for a while, and I'd love to hear your experiences.
There's a v4 beta for Windows, which is very similar to the Mac version. Better than the stable v3.

I'm using it on Linux (under Wine) and works well. The Chrome extension is a lot better.
>Our "sabre-rattling" over the Malvinas Islands was done during our vicious, murderous military dictatorship in the 70s/early 80s.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/12/argentina-falkl...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/05/falklands-under-ou...
The founder that quit is the one who founded Stellar.

He is also the one who dumped 9 billion XRP after that argument.
Sweet, and done. I had no idea GitHub has that as a feature.
What's the purpose of the target purchase?
There are at least two religions for which belief in one constitutes damnation in the other. At least one of them has to be wrong.

Of course, to any person, his religion can't be wrong. (If it can, then it is at least in some sense not "his religion.") So to every strong believer, someone else's afterlife precautions are either superfluous or futile.

Of course, that doesn't mean the question should be taken lightly, but it seems that as long as there are different religions, people have to believe that other people's afterlife precautions are not correct.
Choking People Made Me A Better Designer
If only the divide were as strong, clear, and deep as you make it out to be. Sure, what you're saying may be true of coffee vs. cocaine and aspirin vs. heroin, but there are plenty of pharmaceutical companies establishing new markets in the vast swaths of grey that lie in between. That's the whole point here.

And it's not just the drugs themselves that are being carefully engineered, but the social contexts and suitably sanctioned delivery systems that go hand in hand with the chemicals themselves. The really interesting thing here has less to do with the drug war in particular, and more to do with the way its increasingly anachronistic qualities stand in sharp contrast to what we're becoming as a society and a species. Discussing that shift - which is the real point of this piece - goes waaay beyond eroding the support for prohibition.

Other HN readers: please don't let this nitwit who completely missed the point turn you away from something that actually really well written and well worth your time. Indeed, the Aeon is becoming a great source for some of the best writing online. If you enjoy this, please know that there's a lot more where it came from.
Looks like the emails coming from stellar are delivered from an SMTP origin "mailgun.info" which uses an invalid client certificate; I'm getting errors:

SSL_accept error from mail-182-5.mailgun.info[23.253.182.5]: 0
warning: TLS library problem: XXX:error:XXX:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate:s3_pkt.c:1258:SSL alert number 42:

At least they retry without SSL aftwards, and manage to deliver the emails.
A number of random thoughts come to mind. Apologies if this comes across as negative. I like the idea because it makes selling a hassle-free experience, but the way I am imagining it feels inefficient to me. "Free delivery" == $150 for a $300 couch? Or am I missing something? Does your truck sit for 90 mins during the auction? or are you making more pickups? If multitasking, isn't a truck a FILO storage for a FIFO process? Couldn't I sell on CL, get a bigger audience and hire a delivery/mover service if the buyer doesn't have a friend with a pickup truck? If a mover service is more expensive than you, then why? A quick search looks like I can hire a two man moving crew for $75 an hour.
This book needs some serious editing. There is clunky English which native speakers can figure out the gist of it but English as a second or later language would have a problem with. There are parts where I wonder why certain terminology is not explained before using it and other areas where terminology is explained that I assume the reader needed to know before reading this material. Good technical books have a section in the beginning usually called something like "Intended audience" or "Who should read this book". I only did editing for a few years but those are the first things I noticed after reading the intro and chapters 1-3.
Also the name of an alarm app with 1M+ downloads https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.bitspin.tim...
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/17/edward-sno...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/15390323549/nsa-h...
This is interesting and well-informed, but it's important to remember that fraud is an adversarial problem. The bad guys will change their behavior to evade detection. The habits described here may exist when there is no defense in place, but if you use them to detect fraud, you'll likely see shifts in behavior to appear more "normal" and evade detection.
It's still an avoidable risk. And one that can be applied retroactively.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/15390323549/nsa-h...
That's exactly what kept me from cooking too. We're keeping things simple for now, but I'm sure we'll add more customization options over time.
This is fantastic news because I've recently been looking for a VPS with 0 ties to the United States and it can be tricky to determine who owns who.

With this ruling, I expect more companies to be advertising the fact that they operate entirely outside of the US and thus are not subject to these data-grabs. This will make choosing a VPS provider much easier for me.
A protocol for passive tissue clearing and immunolabeling
> Speeding is extremely dangerous. It's ludicrous to argue otherwise.

Actually, blanket arguments like "speeding is extremely dangerous" are ludicrous. "Speeding" is exceeding a semi-arbitrary speed threshold. If that threshold is, say, 70 mph I'm OK at 70 but if I go to 71 I am being "extremely dangerous"? 71 is speeding in that case, after all.

> A third of crashes (including fatal crashes) involve speeding,

If a third or more of all drivers speed, that statistic is meaningless.

> the faster you are driving the more likely you are to die or fatally injure another.

Indeed, and that statement has nothing to do with speeding. It is a continuum from 0 to whatever the top speed of a given vehicle is. This statement is equally valid when you are under the speed limit.

> Also, changing the speed limits on roads have been studied and it doesn't make a humongous difference. The government usually sets the speed limit at slightly lower than the average speed people actually drive.

I have seen that happen before, but in my experience that is the exception rather than the rule.
That is exactly the reason why we keep this porject as open-source as possible, have a disclaimer for it which basically tells YOU to be responsible what you do with the code and most importantly, we are on NO STORE, especially not GooglePlay. If an App moves to GooglePlay and does something that not plays by the rediculous "rules" (serach for what happened to the awesome HushSMS), they're kicked.

If any store, then F-Droid. But for now, why not just grab the most recent compiled WIP-Release from here and give it a shot? https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/rel...

Also, as much as I appreciate your comment just to find this thread later on, this is NOT the official discussion of the App. I HIGHLY recommend just starring the GitHub and (if you have balls) contribute to it's success by submitting pull requests. Thanks for listening, spread the link to the GitHub in all social media and places where potential developers and good Hackers hang out! ;-)
Consuming data from multiple RabbitMQ hosts
Look up "rolling speed harmonization," an attempt to mitigate atrocious traffic to and from the mountains here in Colorado by using a pace car (effectively a strictly-enforced lowered speed limit).

Initial "tests" with lighter traffic conditions proved that the system helped stabilize closing speeds and volume, but in the actually troublesome heavier traffic conditions the state has been unable to figure out when and where to deploy the pace vehicles effectively.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114922
I agree there are too many politically posts. The NSA story, although relevant to HN, has imho been exhausted.
My favorite part about this is the now widespread Hill euphemism "political intelligence". It has ecome de rigeuer that this is simply a "thing that is done". I know a few people who do it as a living.
Paypal has not been sending payment notifications to merchants
Satellite study reveals parched U.S. West using up underground water
I'm surprised you would say that. The Ars piece consists nearly entirely of quotes from this one.

The current article may not be well-written, but its claim to primacy is obvious. I have a hard time justifying massively lifted content on the HN front page.
18F Digital Services Delivery
CIA apologises for spying on Senate
> The government’s position is that the warrant is more of a hybrid — part search warrant and part subpoena.

That covers it, you can get any data you want as long as it is an "hybrid". Maybe Russia should do the same "hybrid" over the Microsoft representatives there and get the email of all US politicians.
Citizens should be able to nominate & disbar judges.
Same here .. why does a currency exchange need access to my FB friends and photos? For all I know the whole thing has been set up as a ruse to show that idiot tech-heads will give away their ID and family photos for "magic beans" in the form of potentially worthless private currency.

Of course I'm happy to beg for "money" .. so you're still reading gdb, please give me some stellar (username: pbhj). Thanks!
Awesome! Would be great if they began offering unlimited alerts in some countries other than the US & Canada (the UK would be a good place to start!).
Nice. The final piece of the puzzle that I didn't even realize was missing until reading this announcement.

When I spin up a new idea, step one is to register the domain with my normal $7/year registrar. But from that point forward it's all AWS except for the step of manually copying back the nameservers from Route 53.

Sure, this is a bit more expensive but it's a no brainer from a lot of perspectives. First, it's Amazon so there's no fear of flakines (even of the whimsical negligent sort that Google specializes in). They're certainly going to be more reliable than the guys I'm with now (not because my guys aren't reliable; they're just not Amazon). And naturally, there's the bonus of having everything in one place and tied together.

But mostly there's the silly psychological reason: I have to manually renew a few of my domains every once in a while, sending off my card details for a few hundred more of my precious dollars and feeling the pain. With Amazon it'd be completely different. They're already pulling a grand or so out of my account every month. It's just business expenses, so a bit extra for domains can get nicely lost in the noise.

I get the feeling I might be doing a bunch of copy/pasting in the near future. Let's hope they have a good migration tool.
This is actually a nice idea. Lots of potential. Congrats on building a MVP! Few things that come to my mind
- 50/50 split seems pricey!
- How about you do it differently ? pick up only those that have guaranteed buyer and you take a commision from both seller and buyer
Not sure what your point is. Every model, be it human or automatic/statistical, is by definition a "simplification" and is going to have some false positives and negatives. Having these flaws doesn't make the entire model useless.
Ugh. No.

The judicial branch is not a political one, as the Supreme Court wisely declared the other day it is not up to them to question the will of the people.

If the people elect a congress that passes dumb laws (including those in the constitutions) it is not for the judges to overrule them.

If you can't get the people to elect a congress to make suitable laws, how is electing judges going to help?

I don't disagree that this ruling will hurt US businesses, it's just that that is a political question, and not a judicial one.
Hell, if you have good insulation, you don't really need any heating at all beyond that produced by cooking, lighting, and body heat of the occupants; except in really exceptional circumstances. You do need air exchange, preferably heat recovering.
Are you suggesting that caffeine, alcohol and nicotine are not also damaging to the human body? Or are you retreating into "it's legal therefore we're okay with the damage it causes" territory?

X can cause people to do really stupid and dangerous things.

This is true for all manner of X which induces feelings of alertness, happiness, and confidence. Alcohol can cause people to do really stupid and dangerous things. Caffeine can cause people to do really stupid and dangerous things.
Do – A Platform For Making Meetings More Productive
Might as well just register domains at Gandi.
The calculations run locally, so your data is secure since it doesn't go anywhere.

The easiest way to check correctness is to compare what Excel returns to what our engine returns. If there's no discrepancy, you can rely on our calculations from then on.

(If there is one, let us know and we'll fix it! We've tested it internally, and part of the goal of the beta is to make sure things hold up in wider use.)
I was thinking electrical energy, but you raise a good point that photons have momentum.
> The 'ridicule' I was referring to is this firestorm of a thread

Which is not going to have any effect on the Linux kernel or the GCC compiler. I'm not participating here because I think it will change anything substantive; I'm just doing it because I feel like it.

> a large majority of the commenters here agree with me

Have you actually counted?

> I think it's pretty obvious to most adults that it was in fact pretty adolescent, silly & childish

I think you are overestimating how many "adults" agree with you.
Or a large portion of them could just be bots.
You're right, but people in that situation don't always have the luxury of rewriting the models or moving to a different tool. Hopefully we can help in those cases.
So if I'm understanding correctly, we're meant to trust a network governed by the CEO of Stripe, the VC funding Stripe, and a guy whom Stripe has given 2 Million dollars to?

Looks like this is yet another classic developer bait-and-switch. Make things look all independent and open at the start, have a different website, and make a half-declaration about your interests so nobody can accuse you of not being transparent... But keep the keys to the kingdom in your pocket so you can control it and profit once it becomes valuable.

Count me out.
It's not so much a matter of can as will.
Ah, so certainly malicious JS code could misbehave and gain access to your account. But this is true also for someone publishing a desktop client — in practice, people aren't going to check the code going into each release, any more than they're going to inspect the JS running on their page before entering the password.

I think the question of where your password by design will go is very important. If it's transiting the server, suddenly there's a lot more surface area to worry about. Logfiles, databases, and the like suddenly can be called into scope, and an attacker might be able to steal credentials even without being able to substitute out code.

In any case, the great thing about an open ecosystem is that, if you don't like the choices someone else has made, you are more than welcome to make your own implementation with choices you prefer!
Almost 200,000 people may have been affected by US visa system crash
Well, the data for the final master copy is measured in terabtes but when you add up all the ingredients (unusued footage, VFX intercopies, safety copies, multi-layered VFX and audio stuff) a sci-fi blockbuster can hit a petabyte, easy.
On a side note, how is the bed bug situation in SF? Is it typically safe to buy used furniture?

When I used to live in San Jose, it was common knowledge to not buy any furniture from the downtown area since it almost always brought in bed bugs.
I think it's a useful bit of feedback.