skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with your first two paragraphs, but you lost me on the second half of your comment.

The TSA's response to attempted attacks has been to clamp down on the rest of us after the fact: shoes off, no liquids. This tells us that the intelligence gathering effort was not reflected in the airport security measures. They lock down those attack vectors to prevent "me too" attacks, but there haven't been any. Yet, the security gymnastics routine has not gotten lighter for the average traveler.

Where I disagree:

> no normal person would ever have occasion to set foot in

You just dismissed a chunk of humanity as non-"normal" along with their homeland. Yes, Westerners have rare occasion to visit some of the places where terrorists breed and train. But the world contains more than Westerners, doesn't it?

> If I was a black man in the US I'd be much more afraid of looking at a cop the wrong way than being caught up in a terrorist outrage.

You are making the same mistake we're talking about with airport security: you are blowing a few highly-publicized events way out of proportion.

Here[1] is some 2011 data from the FBI highlighting homicide victim/offender race & sex. Compare that to this report[2] from the Bureau of Justice Statistics showing arrest-related deaths from 2003-2009. (I know different years, etc, sorry) From that data, it looks like blacks kill way more blacks (and whites kill more whites) than cops killing either race.

[1]: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...

[2]: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf
Downtime graph: http://downdetector.com/status/playstation-network.

For Xbox Live: http://downdetector.com/status/xbox-live.
Presumably, this now means anyone providing significant material support to the CCC can find themselves on the US's shitlist, no?
Correction: You can estimate the number of truly dangerous terrorists targeting the US easily. Israel and Russia seem to attract more and they tend to hit easy targets that are more difficult to secure than airports.
Wow, that's surprisingly low.
So are those trusted providers going to be cheaper than Visa?

Not just cheaper than what Visa charges merchants today, cheaper than what Visa can charge and still make money.
I think this has always been the case.
A worthy cause. Also see this page for places to donate to Snowdens defense.

https://wikileaks.org/freesnowden
(scroll down to Other options)

Location for Chelsea Mannings defense/appeal fund:

http://couragetoresist.org/2010/09/chelsea-manning-defense-f...
Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful
I don't know about 'most drugs on silk road' but I've never heard of people cultivating coca, poppies, or sassafras trees for drugs in the United States. That's three major drugs right there (cocaine, heroin, ecstasy).
DeLorean.js – An Agnostic, Complete Flux Architecture Framework
Part One: Getting Started with Node.js for the .NET Developer
Show HN: Wrapulous – A simple link shortening and click tracking API
Looking at the features list, I see, "Complete support for Node.js APIs and all its third party modules."

Does this mean the JS code on your HTML pages has no sandbox between itself and the OS?

Also, how does this compare to QtWebKit [1][2]? I like the idea of blending HTML with native GUI components in a desktop app, or even having a "lite" web only version, become a "full" version when run on the desktop and share as much code as possible.

[1] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKit

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271511
Interestingly "Scottish"ness doesn't necessarily matter for eligibility to vote in this referendum. I was born and raised there for 25 years but cannot vote as I'm not resident there. Those who live in Scotland can vote, regardless* of their nationality or how they identify. Which is of course correct and reflects what I'd like an independent Scotland to look like - immigrant friendly and diverse.

* = within certain restrictions, something like a couple of years resident prior to the referendum. Don't quote me on that :)
Damn, Tech Investor Ashton Kutcher Was a Fat Baby
Not necessarily. Failure is always an option.
JavaScript has a lot of complexity and little gotchas. I often compare the simplicity of Go with JavaScript and wish JS were more like that, but I still find myself enjoying JavaScript. I hope that "use strict"; evolves to further limit the bad pit falls even experienced developers can get stuck in. Some of the new features like isPrototypeOf can replace the old behavior, like instanceof. I would hope that once browsers start supporting more of the new things we all migrate to using them, if they're implemented well.
Totally anecdotal, but I was once pulled aside on the jetway by a woman with a Treasury badge and a burly guy who was probably a sheriff though he never said anything. She wanted to know how much cash I was carrying. I was flying from SF to Frankfurt, and I think it was 1994. My net worth then was about $30k, so I laughed and told her I had about $200 and a credit card.

So maybe CBP doesn't check outbound travelers, but Treasury did at least once.
My first job out of school was with the US government. I'm speaking from experience. It is worse than you could possibly imagine. Onion levels of absurdity, snake oil levels of effectiveness.

Being young and naive I, at first, thought it was just an isolated case of astonishing incompetence but I came to realize it was actually accepted as normal and good practice across many parts of government.

Once my idealism about civil service wore off I got out of there as fast as possible.
This. OMG 1000 times this. I simply cannot understand why so many intelligent people still allow themselves to be divided like this. How can they not see that the politicians are playing them?
Making Chess Cool for Kids Using Star Wars Lego
Announcing Legal Entity Identifier Search
Ask HN: Is a college degree always a requirement?
Context: I'm a 23 year old junior software developer at a SaaS shop.

Due to economic circumstances I haven't been able to attend much college -- less than a full year. I recently came across ~$15k as part of an inheritance deal and am split between investing in furthering my degree, or using it to self teach where it has the potential to stretch much further economically.

How much am I wounding myself by not obtaining a degree? Is it possible for me to progress in this field on my own?
remember when aurora coin skyrocketed to the top of the list?
It doesn't mean you should run them into the ground about it.

Of course not, is there any evidence that doing so has a net positive return? Why even discuss that point?

You can't say the well rounded are any more or less worthy or worthless than the superstars. All are needed and all are as valuable as one another.

Disagree. You can replace the generalist performing a function on this "machine" and still have the same result. Not so for the superstar.

But it takes the watchmaker, the generalist who understands the value of all the pieces together, who has the skill (and a lot of patience) to bring them together as a whole that makes the result something useful.

While that all feels good and makes us all think we are beautiful snowflakes with real positive contributions that make an impact, the reality seems to not comply. Of course the idea that any one input is equally important than all other parts is not a falsifiable contention.

To wit: If the CTO (specialist) left our company it would fail basically immediately with no one able to come in and replace him. If I the CEO (generalist) left there are tons of people who could come in and run it probably as well. This is an example of something most people in this community have probably experienced at one time of another and proves my point. We as a community think we can augment this by requiring clean code standards with comments and distribute code so that individuals aren't irreplaceable but in fact it is often still the case.
The Essence of AdWords in 876 Words [Infographic]
Symbol has other traits beyond just not being unique. Properties added via symbols are not iterated over in a for in and do not show up in calls to Object. getOwnPropertyNames()
I used to play bayan, so I figured out the layout even before I saw the url. The orientation of keyboard makes it a bit hard to play though.
This is a false dilemma. "He/she" was never even mentioned.

In the context of the article[0], other options exist like:

If your child is in the kitchen, make sure he doesn't touch the hot stove.

If your child is in the kitchen, make sure she doesn't touch the hot stove.

These sentences are no harder to read than if "they" had been the pronoun used.

[0] - and I really think what the author is trying to do is make the reader think of a different child with each bullet point. Not a single, unspecified four year old, and not a collective group of every four year old, but one unique four year old for each bullet point. Alternating the gender of the pronoun creates this effect.
> Their sole purpose is to make people more comfortable with invasive government overreach.

Amen.
Similarity clustering with NCD works best when you can visually inspect the items..

Doesn't this apply to all the clustering algorithms ? And this is what we want to avoid for clustering, because it is not easy to visualize in higher dimensions.
Yes. Probably they will be free. Bitpay offers BIP70 for free to its merchants.
You're correctly describing the state of the world, but my indirect point was that we should stop accepting such behaviour in business and shun people who do. It's stupid and wrong.
Nice catch, I will update the blog post.
And I also missed out on including this, thank you.
No, that's not that. It is for Google. Something like : Google, if something bother you let me know! Just don't be evil and let y++ live. I'm a little paranoid.

Firefox and Chrome review this, so there is no exploit or anything "bad" in it.

Did you try it ? What do you think?
I suppose it could be useful as a theft decoy.
Beautiful work! I love the colour and contrast. The London, Phuket (both) and Byron shots are just great. Oh and I liked the article too, except I'd replace samsonite with rimowa :)
> he was sentencing them to juvenile detention, not adult prison. The bar is lower for juvenile detention.

I read that as "He sentenced them to juvenile detention where threshold for detection in case of abuse is lower."

As a hacker/engineer, ask yourself this: if a (trusted third) party is getting kickbacks for providing false positives, what do you call that?
Of my time, of internet file space, of internet domain space etc.
Assuming two people get together to make this happen is reasonable. It's also reasonable that two other people will get together and do US<-->BTC and another two peple will do BTC<-->BRL. That gives you the 'path' to make the remittances automatic. My point was there really doesn't need to be a cross border transfer at all - simply wait until someone builds another gateway to return the debt.

For people sending money home to Brazil, well, they don't have to know anything about Bitcoin to make this work. The network just takes care of it.

I love the postage stamp analogy! Great post man.
In the US we (individuals) pay taxes on our worldwide incomes. You'll have to file with the IRS every year and claim this income. There's no need to "bring your money back" for the IRS to get its share.
I've thought about that, having multiple kids and having lost one. My prediction is that I still would love the murderous child. It's rather surprising how strong my emotions are to my little girls for no conscious reason.
My soon to be 12 year old has been 'sneaking' books/lights into his room for most of the last decade. It is a cool problem to have, except he tends to do it to excess, and end up not getting much sleep. For days at a time.

Serious passion for reading, though we did end up having to 'bring the hammer down' and shake him down for lights before bed, alas.
Ask HN: What would you build if you would be a multi-billionare?
What would you build to change the world if you would be a multi-billionare? Like Elon Musk trys spaceships, elektro car, Honda trys humanoid robots, arab sheikhs build super tall buildings. What would you do if you someday would have enough money?
Lolz...
Not super related to the rooting (which is awesome), but I have a Chromecast question:

I have a Chromecast and I love it, but the one thing I want to use it for that I haven't been able to figure out how is to show a dashboard at work. We have these giant TVs that are basically off all the time, except when there's a football game or something on, and I want to put up my stats dashboard for our app. Chromecast should theoretically make it easy for me to just stream the dashboard to the screen, but what I've found happens is that it goes to sleep after 10 minutes or so.

I don't want to spend hours and hours rooting around and figuring out application IDs and stuff. I just wanna click some buttons and have my dashboard show up and stay up all day. Are there any resources for that?

Or is Chromecast just the wrong tool for the job?
Well don't freaking turn off earthquake alerts!
Probably like many of you I mostly hang out around middle class, highly involved parents. But sometimes I find myself around other parents who are not as involved. I think those other parents don't see themselves as the primary impact on their children; they probably don't see themselves as the primary impact even on their own lives.

Among my peer group there are kids with learning problems and disabilities and all sorts of things. And the parents are watching and notice these problems, and work hard to resolve the problems, and reach out (and know how to reach out) for help. Among those other parents many kids are fine, and will develop quite normally, but there are also kids with learning problems, disabilities, health problems – things that won't just be fine without intervention. And I've repeatedly seen those other parents just not notice, to resign themselves (and thus their children) to these limits.

With this in mind I've realized a lot of rules and materials aren't directed towards me or my peers. These "what your children should know by kindergarten" lists are mostly to catch the kids who are in real trouble, but their parents haven't noticed. (The parents who notice don't particularly need extra reminders that they need to give their children extra help.) A lot of programming and structure is intended to make up for a lack of structure for this particular group of kids.

The involved parents of course always make this about themselves (and me too). Because we're involved, because we're constantly asking "should I worry about this?", because we believe we can make a difference through our effort. So the interventions intended to bring up one set of kids instead get applied – and applied most vigorously! – to an entirely different set of kids that probably didn't need any of it.

And then we go on boards and talk about these lists and are shocked at how limited the expectations of a 4-year-old are (because the lists are intended only to catch kids in trouble) and we start to brag about our kids because we're trying so hard to do the right thing and it's never clear if we are.
I'd want to go check out the polar glacier on the moon.
S&P 500 tops 2000 for first time
The NoPhone is the next big thing since the iPhone.

(Yes, you can use that as a testimonial).
No, in fact, precheck generally means you don't go through the AIT device and instead go through the metal detector. If you refuse to go through the metal detector (or if you set it off, or you are the 'zone 5' "random" person), you get a (hilariously perfunctory) patdown that they use to collect particles for the explosives test device. Nothing like the Freedom Grope™ in the plebe lanes.
The point of it is you can implement private properties, as I understand it:

function MyClass() {
var mysymbol = new Symbol("foo");
this[mysymbol] = 3;
}

var bar = new MyClass();
bar.foo // this won't work
Show HN: A simple side scrolling game demo developed in Playcanvas engine
Your comment about the bool, got me thinking. This would have been better implemented if it was thought of along the lines of movie rating system.

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

However, this got me thinking that across cultural lines there are a lot of shades to what is "safe". So a website based in Austria might want to restrict different content than a website based in Australia, and who knows where the "browser" is based.

Of course your comments about the site actually implementing anything/correctly still apply.
No, I'm not. Pay attention. I'm saying you don't need to pack on unnecessary arbitrary laws because you think you're smarter than everybody else.

There are universals, for the times when there is not, you MUST recognize that by forcing them you ONLY cause harm. There's no arguing that.
Can somebody explain in greater detail what this means:

> This is true for the CPython interpreter world, but not true for Python the language. That these are not the same things is disappointing but generally the case.

My understanding was that the CPython interpreter is considered the "reference" implementation of Python, and that (except for bugs) it defined Correct Behavior for Python-the-language.
I didn't have to take shoes off, laptop out, or throw away liquids in India. They do a hand-wand metal detector and a perfunctory frisk if you're wearing loose clothing, but otherwise it's much less invasive than any TSA check.
Does open source boost mental health?
You know, I'm actually first on board with the idea that rather a lot of science is more poorly sourced than we'd like, and a lot of people place too much trust in "Science!". There's a lot of people who use the religion part of their brain to deal with "Science!".

On the other hand, this pathological need to disprove every study that has ever come out, ever, on every topic ever, is equally wrong. Perhaps it is also sourced from the same part of the brain.

Simply demanding more proof than we have right now is too powerful an argument; it disproves everything, and is thus useless. This may not be the all-singing, all-dancing result that is so easy to call for when it's not your job to provide it, but it is one of the few strong signals we legitimately have about early intellectual development, and it's as wrong to just dismiss it as it is to blindly trust it.

To forever demand higher standards is not sophisticated; it is to embrace endless, profound, uncorrectable ignorance. It is not scientific.
Building synchronized video playback
Their fundraising has been a success!

Edit: now it's [dead]. They lack of irony.
At least try and be subtle:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kannonboy
Busybox, lvm and some other similar packages are frequently static in GNU/Linux for obvious reasons.
How Madden NFL turns players into pixels
Money quote right here: "Time wasted on learning what all the other 4 year olds know is time that can't be spent learning what they actually want to learning that will make them a unique member of society", you sir, are absolutely right. +1
I'm not sure what is best for a 4 year old, but they certainly aren't helped by smug and self-righteous posts by parents that claim to have better answers than other smug and self-righteous parents.
In a true miracle of sweet reason working on kids, we said "you should go to sleep so you won't be too tired in the morning for school" AND SHE LISTENED.
And what about altcoins that issue an unlimited number of coins at a fixed annual inflation rate? If we price them as you describe, their value is infinite.

The correct strategy is somewhere in the middle. Shares with pre-programmed future distribution (as happens in traditional mining-based coins) should contribute less to the calculated market cap as they recede further into the future, using some discount function that produces a finite, reasonable present value for coins with unlimited exponential growth of the coin supply.

For coins with a central authority issuing distribution, the function has to be weighted by the credibility of the authority's plans. If some coin authors convince you that some portion of their coin will never enter circulation (e.g., if they publicly destroy them by sending to a vanity address so improbable that they could not possibly have a corresponding private key), you should drop those coins from your calculation of the cap entirely. If they merely promise to only release the coins slowly over many years, as with Ripple, your estimate of the market cap varies substantially based on how much you trust Ripple.
Oh, come on. I'm getting a little sick of how far the pendulum has swung in this privacy conversation.

I get the desire for privacy, but if every time people have data about them used we get this complaint, no one's going to listen when there's a real violation of privacy.
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> 1. Apparently everyone in Santa Cruz goes to bed early and gets up early.

What I'm guessing is that people in areas of higher population density stay up later and get up later on average. The 25-50 and 50-75 mile bands seem to contain the big urban centers, while the 0-25 and 75-100 bands are more the suburbs, small cities and rural areas.
It's built in - go to https://habitrpg.com/#/options/settings/settings and uncheck "Show Header"
Yeah! I'm really curious how long it will take for those "closed loops" to develop. I think cryptocurrency co's should be working as hard as possible to find them and get them online.

Thanks re: postage stamp :)
So that means they build the cost into their pricing, right?
That's why we have assembly instructions. Hex-values are language agnostic
The issue is when people (seemingly) randomly switch between he/she and his/hers, even within a single context. Then you end up with something like:

"If your child is in the kitchen, make sure she doesn't touch the hot stove. If he does, however, ..."

Even when the switch isn't that abrupt, if someone is switching between he and she every few paragraphs, it can become very distracting. Using singular they solves this problem.
Do you have any idea how hard it is for non-major party candidates to get on the ballot.
Nothing wrong with the actual article.

It also takes exactly one search for the username to find out the poster here is the author of the article, and since when has posting one's own articles (whether or not they're posted on your employer's blog) been forbidden?
Define achievement as you wish and you'll probably find it holds true. Expert pickpocket as a measure of achievement? Kids probably go on score well on that environment. And to be fair, in the right situation it's probably a pretty good measure.
Indeed. For chemistry, for the basic knowledge you could go back quite a bit further, probably to the 1930's when quantum mechanics was applied to it. More recent for some of the lab work, there are some really neat analytical toys to play with.

On the other hand, anything touching on biology, including to some degree biochemistry, needs to be up to date. Very complicated systems about which we're continuing to learn major things all the time. At the other end, at least for MIT's core science requirements, physics of the 19th century are fine (mechanics and E&M).
There's always been a persistent rumor that some of the vector-based Atari coin-op games like Battlezone were written in FORTH, but I've never been able to definitively confirm or refute that. (I can find messages out on the net from the mid-90s with people talking about this, but no actual replies from people who would know.) I always liked the idea, although I don't think I really like FORTH that much.

(Those who remember MUCKs like TinyMUCK might have actually used a FORTH variant: MUF. I actually wrote a couple of MUF programs, although by that point the language supported lists and dictionaries so it wasn't quite so headbangingly tough for those of us who do not have stack-based brains.)