skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see it going the other way around depending on the emphasis of the narrative. For example, if I were to say "Oh, it was a big, red barn", that sounds wrong, because "red" isn't something you'd usually emphasize. Whereas "It was a red, big barn!" sounds good.
Homeowner association http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association
Truth @ http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html
I've never heard of that term before... is there a good resource for reading up on federated servers/networks/design (I'm not even sure which of those three terms is the most appropriate here).
International students coming to Australia for their education is a very big business. In total its about 22% of the student population, up to 40% at some institutions.

https://aei.gov.au/research/International-Student-Data/Docum...

http://www.australianuniversities.com.au/directory/student-n...

Domestic university students in Australia have no upfront tuition fees. We have a student loan type system called HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme) which is sort of like a student loan but effectively interest free (it rises with inflation via the CPI). Payments are made automatically from your salary but only when you reach a thresholded salary (~$50k). Its been a very good system in that it achieves a specific objective - accessibility of higher education to most Australians.* If your parents arent rich you can still go to a good university.

https://www.ato.gov.au/rates/help-repayment-thresholds-and-r...

International students are not eligible for this system and pay full tuition fees. Fees vary considerably but you are looking at $50k-$250k depending on whether you are going for an arts degree or full medical school. It is a massive source of funding for universities in Australia.

There are occassionally some minor scandals, for instance every now and then an academic passes an overseas student that should have failed because of administrative pressure. There is also a real concern that research is second place and the institutions are becoming undergrad sausage factories churning out graduates. Universities here are certainly more like businesses than they were 20 years ago (see comment below about our current government). But overall I think its been very positive for Australia. It aids multicultural thinking and integration with Asia. It also subsidises the cost of education for domestic students.

* the current government are trying to change this so we have a system more like the USA. They have a fight on their hands.
Cool, thanks. Last time around I used a pg-driver-specific datatype to hold the parameter on its way through sql2o, and felt rather guilty about doing so.
KnockoutJS 3.2 released
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2014/08/18/knockout-3-2-0-released/
This looks like an awesome release from the Knockout Team. I'm excited to play around with their components solution.
> And a federation of networks can get together and decide to share what data they have about you with each other.

Federation means competition. You can choose providers you trust and who agree not to do that. Or you can run your own, which in a properly designed system shouldn't require more than some free software, a domain name and a machine to point it at. Which ordinary people might buy off the shelf as an appliance that plugs into your modem.

> Could you clarify this? I'm really not sure what you mean, sorry.

OK, so right now you have a funny cat video, so you upload it to YouTube and then post the link on Facebook. So Facebook can tell who you've shared the link with and who has clicked on it, YouTube can tell what you've uploaded and who has watched it, and anyone you've shared it with (or, in the absence of authentication, anyone in the world) can download it and save a copy on their hard drive.

In the alternative, you upload the funny cat video to some distributed CDN thing like Freenet or BitTorrent, and then your friends get the link in something that resembles an RSS reader that gets its feeds from something that distributes messages how email does.

So anyone you've shared the video with can still download it and keep it but there is nobody who has the complete list of everyone you've shared it with and there is no third party middle man who can keep track of everyone who is looking at it.

Whoever is doing the uploading can still tell who is downloading but presumably these are your friends who are not keeping permanent records rather than some corporation bent on converting every aspect of your personality into a data set for selling hotdogs and health insurance.
My neighborhood is much less interesting than yours. We have someone stealing mail but no detectives yet.
The EB-5 visa is quickly becoming a popular route for wealthy Chinese citizens to get permanent residence status in the US:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/25/news/economy/china-us-immigr...
What about "component" or "module"? Well, maybe not "module", but I'm just brainstorming.
Untrue. See http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html for an explanation of this allegation and its background, legal and otherwise.
CORS testing CDNs: Azure, Google, Rackspace, Amazon
Imagine if the next version of C would break the previous one. How many operating systems and critical software would have to be rewritten in order to be maintained.

I don't think the idea is to force existing software to be rewritten. It's to provide a clean break so that new software isn't saddled with the baggage of the old. Over time, most of the older software is retired or replaced, and the industry migrates to use the better tools with more and more projects.

This seems a very reasonable strategy, as long as your ABI or equivalent interface specifications can remain compatible for the common subset of functionality, so that programs built using the new language can still use libraries written in the old one. (See also: Every successful general purpose programming language in decades has offered a FFI for C.)

It doesn't work so well if you don't have proper formal standards for your old and new languages. It's also much harder to achieve in practice if your code is effectively running on some sort of virtual machine so you can't have that clean break at the ABI level, which might be one reason why several languages have failed to make a convincing big jump in recent years (Perl 6, Python 3, etc.).
This is such head-in-the-sand logic.

In his post, he also mentions all the open VNC servers he found that he didn't publish. Emails, checks, prescriptions, industrial control servers, etc.

We should be much more worried about what a more malicious attacker might do, armed with nothing but a trivial port scanning script. This guy should be lauded for exposing how dangerous this is, not sued or imprisoned.
The nominal answer is that HOAs are membership associations to which owners in a condo building or neighborhood are sometimes obligated to join. The homeowners pool dues every month to cover things like garbage collection, building maintenance, etc. The HOA also acts as a governing body over the building's residents, and is free to impose any number of rules and restrictions on usage, design, etc., in anything defined as a "common area" (chiefly, any part of the building that is outside the airspace of the condo interiors). Some HOAs set additional restrictions on what you can do inside your condo, provided that activity, construction, design, etc., affects the neighboring units in any way. Above and beyond their common-area jurisdictions, many HOAs are free to establish "house rules," which are arbitrary and binding restrictions on just about anything that the HOA board happens to dislike.

The cynical answer is that HOAs are legal fictions set up to shelter building developers from the financial burdens and liabilities of having to pay for, or be on the hook for, any of those services or maintenance needs. HOAs are the greatest invention in favor of real estate developers since the timeshare.
You will never reverse this oddity of English vocabulary, no matter how much you bellyache about it on the Internet. Sorry that basic lingual fact contradicts your sense of fairness or whatever.

If it helps, you can think of "American" as shorthand for "American of the United States". If that doesn't help, I suggest you just get over it.
Since this runs un nodejs, you could use edge.js to use scraperjs in your .net project.
Untrue. Swedish law does permit it. See http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html
With 12 years of burnup? I've been having trouble getting burnup codes to handle thorium. What are you using? Apparently I should be using Serpent.

But anyway, 12 years is too long, even if it's feasible. Something like 4 years should be better, due to the learning curve on these. For instance, think of a reactor in the field as a ship on a long trip while technology at home continues to improve

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

Edit: The lower the enrichment, and the lower the excess reactivity, the better.
Hack of Community Health Systems Affects 4.5M Patients
Papers linked at http://paul.rutgers.edu/~babaks/
I've seen you say this a few times now. Do you have a source?
The New Statesman article and its author David Allen Green have been extensively debunked. If you do choose to read it, read it in conjunction with http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html to get the full picture.
Community Health says data stolen in cyber attack from China
What is SageMathCloud: let's clear some things up
Hey HN I'm Jake, one of the co-founders of UPower. Some good discussion here. I've posted a few responses below, happy to answer some questions here. Thanks!
there's definitely an opportunity in providing thermal at factories. lots of remote sites in India and China have their own purpose-built coal plants that could potentially use something like that...I have a harder time seeing the financing line up for serving remote villages that can't afford any power today. In those cases finance will always flow to smaller increment technologies, even if they're higher $/kWh, like solar + battery or diesel
If you need someone to investigate your mail theft, I'm happy to put in a word with our vigilante. I'm sure he'd love to take the case.

Fair warning: based on the tone of this guy's dispatches, I'd say there's an outside chance he is the car thief. The plot thickens.
There is a company called Gen4 Energy (formerly Hyperion Power Generation) that has been pursuing the "nuclear battery" concept for 7 or so years: http://www.gen4energy.com
Regulatory approval has been elusive, and that's for a team of 30+ year nuclear industry veterans. The challenges in this industry are brutal, I hope UPower has deep enough pockets and extreme patience to shake up the industry.
> I'm also interested to see how well Rust tackles this, as I agree it's a problem.

Is this a "see how well it actually works" or a "I don't know how this works and I'm interested?"

I'm curious because this is possibly Rust's most important, interesting feature, and I want to make sure we've got some reasonable messaging here.
This is in the context of messages between two users, so probably forum [img] tags win this one in terms of prior art.
Another day another huge data breach. It's starting to feel like the A+B+C=X formula from Fight Club. If the cost of rigorous security is greater than the cost of the backlash from a breach, we don't do it.
Patent trolls usually have lawyers working on contingency fee basis. The lawyers take most of the risk ... the troll has very few costs. In comparison the defendants usually rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in discovery costs (because, unlike shell company trolls, they have lots of records).
It looks like this comedian died in 2005. So I am wondering what the percentage was when he was alive and making this observation.
More importantly, 9/11 hit the WTC. When it did everyone immediately said "imagine if they'd hit a nuclear reactor".

But they didn't. They could've, but they didn't (and it also wouldn't have done very much damage). The reality is that even at the largest conceivable scales, nuclear security as implemented is not threatened by violent terrorism or direct action, so much as leaky side-channels (scientists selling off isotopes on the side).
My recent project uses standard C++11. No dialects, no restrictions. Gcc 4.8.x. It's not a mirage, it's all up to those who want to use it or not.
I am one of the UPower founders. The key takeaways here are that the main hindrances to novel nuclear are (1) meeting regulatory and safety necessities without huge testing costs, which also require a customer interested in purchasing, and (2) competing with the grid, (3) huge scientific/technical risks if not yet proven.

UPower meets these by
(1) being small enough to build a very tough, full scale emulator for testing, never before done in nuclear.
(2) not competing on the grid, which gives immediate, in need customers which is also necessary for regulatory process to complete in (1).
(3) using technologies and materials with decades of experience, in a new way, eliminating the huge uncertainties of many startups you see in the news.
If you mean choice as something external to whatever deterministic/indeterministic framework we use to understand physical systems, it is mystical. If you mean choice as in "I wanted to do something and then I did it", which is the commonly understood meaning of choice, there is literally no conflict with determinism.
There are millions of sources on the use of high-end real estate for foreign money-laundering operations. Like this one: http://nymag.com/news/features/foreigners-hiding-money-new-y...

The question is: why are we allowing foreign speculators in our real estate market, prices where they are, in the first place? Once an average house costs more than 8 times the average income, you have to protect the homeland. Unless you've stopped caring about your own people.
Yes. Think of it this way at $2000 USD an hour ( cheap for a top law firm with the relevant expertise ) $600K USD is only 300 hours of representation. Figure roughly 10 hours a week and suddenly 6 months of negotiations looks damn near impossible for anyone less than a multinational.

Patents are one of the few areas of the law where it's cheaper to attack than defend. And at present they are the greatest threat to the most dynamic sectors of an otherwise sclerotic economy.

Any politician that is not actively pushing to reform the patent issuance and defense process is blasting the seed corn with a blowtorch. Burning the future.
Not in my experience with Melbourne.

Glen Waverley, Box Hill, Springvale and then the spillover. I can't get a look in. One house went for $200k over the asking price. Glen Waverley has supposedly ~25% Chinese but its a lot more in practice. There are also a lot of Indians looking in the surrounds. There aren't that many anglo people at the viewings at all.

I was talking to a mortgage broker and he said that in some cases the children were advance parties with parents money.

A lot of the estate agents are Chinese as they cater to the Chinese.
You don't need to use the compiler from the distro to release for that distro. There is such thing as cross compilation after all. Most do it out of habit and because distros don't offer such services out of the box. But if you build the cross compiler, you can use the newest one even if the distro ships the older.

For example I had a building machine running RHEL 5 which was building for both RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 while using gcc 4.8.2 for both (cross compilers).
Also if there's any lesson here, it's that government intransigence is the real threat here. They don't want to build new reactors, they don't want to shut down old ones, but they still need electricity too.

And of course consider the scale - something like 8,000 people died from that tsunami. Oil refineries burned for hours (how much heavy metal got dumped into the ocean and soil?)...how many people did Fukushima actually kill?
Hey! I appreciate the intel, but...

Sorry, I'm less than entry level. My studies were general math, though I did get 'supporting coursework' in CS (~half in CS theory, half 'applied:' Java, C++). I can't find any entry-level/junior positions that don't require 3-5 year experience in X.

I'm willing to spend my free-time (in addition to working early/late hours) learning whatever technology you work with, but no one feels like giving me a chance.

I have a resume link in my profile if you don't mind giving advice.
They started with a good-sized design, but have scaled it up a couple times since then. They're no longer in mass-production territory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
Cheer up, man. Who wants to fit in anyways? Kind of a platitude but it's true. The homogenization of culture (or asking immigrants to totally fit in to their new surroundings) are negative things for humanity.
Bill Gates is older than Steve Ballmer, they were friends, and his stint at Harvard was not short
XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story
You make a really good point. I didn't sufficiently consider the subversive nature of the actual patent.
Doesn't Coltrane (as the most prominent musician to have a religious movement inspired by him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane#Religious_figure) qualify more so as the high priest of jazz?
Dance Off Turns To Mortal Kombat
> how many people did Fukushima actually kill?

Hey, we already know the answer. No-one. Not even the guys who went and exposed themselves to high doses of radiation to keep the reactor under control. And people who may have been contaminated are being strictly followed for potential leukemia and other cancers. Following the events, I'd say the risks regarding the nuclear power were relatively well managed.
That’s a fair question. Quitting at the first mention of patents would be hard to justify to my wife and family, and in any event would not avoid the situation. IIRC John had left Facebook while this was in process and was still obliged to sign, per the terms of the employment contract he agreed to when he started.

Whether an employee would actually be fired or sued for failure to cooperate is doubtful. But if you wish to avoid any possibility of taint, the only option would be to boycott all patent-holding entities. That would severely limit your employment options in this industry. That's RMS territory.

I don't really have an opinion beyond that. Patents, like lawsuits and depositions, are a non-zero risk if you do programming for a living. But they are rare things day-to-day. Deus volent.
Great, great call to point out.

The author very unfortunately did not understand that there is NO "reprocessing" necessary for our reactors to reuse fuel. Why, oh why, don't we get to preview what they write. Wording is so important in such a massively misunderstood space.

It is a proven process utilized previously in fuel manufacture, and simply adds a little new fuel to existing used fuel. It does not involving isolating any portions of the fuel as done in reprocessing (which is the main "proliferation hazard" of reprocessing).

-COO UPower
You can browse through all the panels here:

http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/
I skimmed the article, clicked through to http://hauteday.com, and shrugged. It wasn't until I read the About Us page that I got why this is actually interesting. Seriously guys, if you're reading this, your current tag line doesn't work. Right now it says:

Each day our community votes on the hautest
new finds in fashion.

And instead it should say:

Find the hautest new clothes, and we'll buy them for you.

I'm really, really confused about why you're burying the lede. I'm also grimacing at the use of the non-word "hautest".

Rule 1 of any website: your greatest competitor is the back button. If you can't sell a visitor on what you're offering almost immediately, you're going to lose them.

Rule 2: It's not about you, it's about me. No one cares about your community. People care about getting free shit (and winning), especially if that free shit is a free pair of Adriano Goldschmied skinny jeans.

I'd love a free pair of AG jeans. So let me know when you launch this for men ;)
This could be a reasonable comparison had you not chosen one of the irregular adjectives that places itself before the noun. The large majority of adjectives in French come after. (Though some can come in both positions, differing in meaning depending on placement.)
I fully agree with the author. The hoops that AAAS makes you jump through are ridiculous and make me kind of sad. It is worth noting that this particular manuscript is easy to access with a google scholar search: http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Deinococcus+radiodurans+o...
Ask HN: Why do we believe that we need to change the world?
What is your question/answer structure? Do you take a photo of each person you meet?
I'm not referring to buying real estate. I'm referring to your specific accusations that Chinese (edit: foreign) nationals are launching fake identities in Bay Area companies.

I'm a foreign national, incidentally. I contribute to the high rent in NYC. I'd say tech money is ruining the city but the fellas down in FiDi got in ahead of us 30, 15 and 5 years ago.
It's not transparent about how it models the supply curve and how much demand there is. If they didn't want to be hated, they'd establish enough data that one who wanted to could prove that it was fair market pricing (and that Uber wasn't making additional profit during surge pricing, silencing doubt about perverse incentives).