skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
awesome name!

would like to see more of this for hardcore stuff like this:

eternal virgin

smelly neckbeard

aspy social retard

and then, let's make it clearer in case my sarcasm needs a tag :

were nigger, kike, wetback already taken?

yes, words matter you fucking morons. needs to be explained to a profession that relies on precise language aka code to accomplish anything.
Some parts of government are slow and stupid.

Other parts are exceedingly clever and ruthless.
It is true that you can't manage what you can't measure. It's also true that you'd be hard pressed to find a crowd more quantitatively oriented than HN readers. It follows that there must be a fault with your analysis.

The fault is in the ability to measure cognitive abilities in children. We know surprisingly little about how the human brain develops. A wrong measurement is worse than no measurement at all, for a multitude of reasons, the biggest of which is the fact that measuring will introduce undesired side effects. If you are introducing side effects, with no actionable result to show for, you should consider the value of measuring.

As such, and given that western societies can accommodate free education at least until puberty, the solution is to provide free education. Assess cognitive abilities, for resource allocation purposes, at the terminus of the free education track.
You can test whether the kid is mature enough to start the school and it makes perfect sense. E.g. fine motor skills, ability to listen to instructions, attention span, ability to split words into letter requires some center to be developed enough too, etc.

If the kid is lacking in some too much, it makes sense to delay him a year. It does not mean the kid will be stupid, speed of development has little relation to "final" intelligence.

Ability to read the alphabet (or any other set of memorized facts) at that age has very little relation to how the kid will be able to do two years later.
The kindergarten testing in the article doesn't control whether kids can be in kindergarten, or stop them from from entering the next grade if they fail.
FYI if you are perpetual traveler and stay less than 3/6 months in every country, you won't be tax resident anywhere which means no taxes at all. Doesn't work for US citizens. (I'm Russian who travels for last 3 years and I don't owe taxes to any country)
The Ferguson Challenge to the Libertarians
Iota: Never lose sight of what's important
For Cloud services, SSH is "cloud native" meaning authorized keys are automatically injected by the cloud provider.

If using metal installs, you can also set this up in your preseed or kickstart.

However, you should never have to bootstrap a machine with another script to install things like python-apt, as you can just use the "raw" command to do this for anything that is not part of the box, see http://docs.ansible.com/raw_module.html - so it's still self-bootstrapping.

disclaimer: creator of project.
Yes, yes, and yes. We should stop blaming government officials for this. For all the flaws of American democracy, we still mostly get the government we (collectively) want.

A lot of techies seem to look around at their fellow techies, see little support for ubiquitous surveillance and other erosions of civil liberties, and assume the general population feels the same. They then conclude that the government is doing this for nefarious reasons against the wishes of the people, and that the solution is to make government more representative of popular sentiment.

As far as I can tell, government is already representative of popular sentiment here. If we want to change these things, we need to convince people in general that change is a good idea.
The problem with "you're smart" is that it does not reward you for the habits that helps you improve and continue to achieve that state, but for an achievement which may very well have involved little effort on your behalf.

If you are currently coasting when you are given that praise, then the implicit lesson is that it's ok not to work hard. It comes back to bite you once you're eventually hitting real challenges.

If you praise someone for being smart after they've actually put in lots of hard work, perhaps it'd work better. But praising the effort itself is "safer" because it works in either case.

Also, to the extent this functions as a "self fulfilling prophecy" it is still better to get people to work hard, because you can always work harder, but it's not at all obvious that a kid will make the connection between praise for "being smart" to putting in more effort to continue getting that praise.

For my part, I feel that the fact I was regularly praised and rewarded for my achievements as a kid, rather than for effort, had a bad effect on my study habits that took me years to undo once I started being challenged. All through school I basically got reinforced that I should expect great results and praise for pretty much no effort, so I got used to slacking off. I rarely revised for tests more than an hour or two. I expected to be finished with a test in less than 1/5 of the allotted time. Because that was just how things were, and I knew I'd do well enough to be praised for it. It was all very well meaning, to be sure, and I don't blame anyone but myself, but then I started university, and basically had to learn to study from scratch because I couldn't coast through every course any more, and it was a nightmare.
To be fair, quite a lot of HN users honestly find NSA related articles to be more noise than signal, particularly when they lack technical details and can have the tendency to spiral into political arguments and blind conspiracy theory. One doesn't need to necessarily invoke the specter of government-driven censorship to explain that effect, given the way some stories can overwhelm the site.
GP said "identify", not separate. In high school they kicked me out of Algebra class into a higher math class because they could see that I was bored. It would have been a huge waste of time and resources for me to keep sitting in that class for the rest of the year.
Is there a map for the area that's grounded yet?
I don't think you could make a IP firewall that enforced read-only either, at least not in a general case.
I beg to differ. How many 'hot start-ups' are hiring experienced developers in their 50's vs. 20-somethings? If we're going to discriminate on things other than merit, we're not in a meritocracy. Your experience may differ, but it's also just anecdotal.

This is GP's point. If you want to stop discriminating based on irrelevant things like age, you have to test relevant things.
Does anyone know how likely it is that this eruption will cause disruption (to air travel) as severe as the one a few years ago?
The problem with cluster SSH is it's not declarative, so if one server already has a package, and another does not, your servers will not behave the same if typing into all of them.

This is why Ansible modules (and most other config tools) instead describe the desired end state, and perform the commands needed to get you to those states.

Basically all config tools arose out of a need for solutions to replace parallel scripting with something more robust that accounted for potential variance between systems, and also to make things more push-button.
oh you nerds.

HN doesn't even let me post the alternative names as the post gets autodeleted. so some names are really, really bad - but hey, let's offend people for fun.

as if the whole sexism debate wasn't enough.

as to why it is more offensive than genghis khan, i guess it needs to be explained to the ignorant neckbeard crowd: there are enough people still alive today that suffered due this mass murderer.

if even russia does not use his name for say naming an aircraft carrier (as opposed to g.w.bush) you should know it is bad.

this name was picked on purpose, to offend. not a common name, as some other ignorant shits in here have claimed.
If teacher has no idea if a kid in her class knows the alphabet or not without the kid taking a formal written test, then that is a terrible teacher who should be fired.

And more importantly all you'll really be testing is how the kid copes with the stress of formal testing, not what the kid actually knows.
‘Coolest Cooler’ inventor explains how he raised $9M on Kickstarter
If you look at my previous post you'll see some more details but basically it boils down to friendlier, happier people, lower cost of living/higher standard of living, better weather, better and cheaper health services compared to the rest of SE Asia especially and some western countries in particular.

Also, and this is a big point I have to add, it's easy enough to get around with basic english here unlike China for example.
Here are some actual sales figures:

http://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/#tabs-3

http://www.webrokr.com/soldsites.php

For sites/apps with steady traffic & earnings, the general rule of thumb for calculating valuation has been multiples of monthly net profit:

* 2002-2004: 3 to 6 x monthly net

* 2005-2012: 10 x monthly net

* 2012-2014: 20 x monthly net

* 2014: 30 x monthly net

So to flip a site for > $200k, you need to be doing approx > $7k/month.
Thanks! Didn't knew about this, or just read over it. I'm mostly using ansible for learning how to use it, don't have huge clusters yet to manage. Most of the hosts I have come from LEB (LowEndBox) offerings so therefor no way to deploy my own base image.

And thank you for the work you put into ansible sir!
The Icelandic safety institution: http://www.almannavarnir.is/displayer.asp?cat_id=8&module_id...

Also mapped by ruv.is here: http://www.ruv.is/files/imagecache/frmynd-stor-624x351/myndi...
About that mesmerizing signal: just take a look at the pop music industry.
You are right that any kind of work in Thailand, including volunteer work, requires a work permit. But you are leaving out the big gray area in Thailand between the law and what actually happens. That gray area is small or non-existent in America or Europe.

In Thailand pornography and sex toys and prostitution are all illegal, but visibly sold on the main tourist streets. In Thailand driving without a license will get you a small fine ($6 to $12), and a receipt to show you paid in case you get stopped in the next 24 hours. In Thailand there are numerous digital nomad get-togethers and communities and co-working spaces full of farang with their laptops, operating openly. The many language schools routinely employ part-time teachers who don't have proper visas and work permits.

As an American I've been trained to obey the law, and I understand that breaking the law leads to well-defined penalties (unless I'm a banker or a politician). Thais, on the other hand, treat the law (and road markings) as suggestions, with penalties that have flexible and often on-the-spot enforcement denominated in baht. So while you are right about what the law says, the reality of how it's interpreted and enforced are more important in Thailand.
Yet still relevant,even if you dont like it.Because trust me foreign businesses using US based internet services still care about that huge scandal.
It's not a guarantee, but on the other hand it does give you stronger Fourth Amendment rights (if the NSA is what you're worried about as opposed to Russia or China, at least).
Nowadays they would release a pre-alpha after half a year and everyone would be done with the game before the full version is out.
i'm still waiting for the browser plugin that replaces "hacker" with "rockstar", but i dont think it will ever happen :(
Ansible is great, but could really have a better first time experience. The system itself is incredibly simple, but the docs and instructions are anything but, and seem to be modeled after Chef and Puppets which are frankly terrible. Instead, look at something like Vagrant as the shining example of how to do it right.

Just compare http://www.ansible.com/ with the excellent http://www.vagrantup.com/ when it comes to downloading and running your first commands. After clicking around for a good while on the Ansbile site you finally find "To install on a Mac, make sure you have Homebrew, then run... ", yeah, no thanks. Oh, there's a "pip" command, if I happen to have that installed (hint: nobody on Mac has by default), but at least there's some more magic commands I can run to install that first. After running the "Looks Totally Safe To Me! (TM)" command "sudo CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments pip install ansible" it blows up on Mavericks with some error about something called paramiko and headers not being available. The attrition rate for newbies on Mac must be phenomenal, because you have to be really dedicated to give it another shot after this. What I'm getting at is, Python software distribution is an abysmal experience, always has been, and you should not subject your users to it. They're not Python developers, they're largely not even devs at all, they don't care about your pip's and brews.

Compare this with Vagrant: Double click this here DMG, run "vagrant init", "vagrant up" and done, in nice _big_ friendly letters on the web site.

Disclaimer: I use and love Ansible (on Linux), and want to see it succeed. Telling my Mac using ops team to check it out soured everyone's first impression right from the start. Rant over.
Team working on Hoverbikes for Humans
The Raspberry Pi Gets a Hat
What does "reverse migrate" mean?
Myna – Voice messaging, Simplified
But if you work for a US company, won't you have to pay taxes on the income earned from the US company?
There's also friendly fire.

"Dark money" (using your term) isn't allowed to coordinate with the candidate's campaign. But voters don't make the distinction between candidates and their supporters.

I've spoken with campaigns who were hurt by independent expenditures by their own supporters, with messaging that reflected poorly on the candidate.

The lack of accountability creates the opportunity to sabotage a campaign. If we can imagine it, I'm sure it's been done.
The posted article doesn't have much context, but it's the only source I found with images of the ultravoiolet photographs which justify the colored patterns. More context and photos in this Smithsonian review: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-17888...

A comment on the social status of color, http://moco-choco.com/2014/04/18/true-colors-of-ancient-gree...

"While to our modern eye, the bright colours scream ‘tacky,’ to the ancients who painted them, it was ‘expensive!’ Back in the day, slaves wore roughcloth, like undyed and unbleached icky tan colors. The well-to-do wore ‘inexpensive’ colours, and the extremely wealthy wore ‘royal’ colours. There were even laws about it, a very wealthy merchant without a noble title might be able to afford purples and blues, but could be put to death for wearing them. Same goes for statues, only the very rich could waste colours on statuary and decor. It was a status symbol. Dyes, pigments, and paints have become so inexpensive that we’ve become a bit jaded."

For offline archiving, a PDF with photos of the exhibits shown at Harvard: http://harvardmag.com/pdf/2007/11-pdfs/1107-32.pdf
I don't understand, how can a sane UI have a target audience?
Mobile USB charging ports (as found in airports etc) are more of a gimmick than anything else. A shoddy one will easily damage your device, and if you're constantly plugging into different ones, that seems like just a matter of time. Plus, an unknown one will most likely just put out 500mA (slower charging), and USB A connectors aren't made for high insertion cycles so expect flaky connections. Plus you still have to carry the bulkiest part (the cable) so you still need kit.

I personally just carry a three way AC power splitter cube while traveling, which gives me enough ports for laptop+phone+whomever I ask to share with.
This probably doesn't work in most countries...Canada also requires you to be a resident of SOME country.
The US company may be required to pay extra tax, but i just add it on top of my consulting rate coz i don't care about other people's taxes. On my side i don't owe the US anything
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Call me Ishmael.

Anybody have any more?
Obama sez africa not ready 4 cure to decease
It works in all countries afaik. "you stay in Canada for less than 183 days in the tax year." makes you non-resident.
I think you deserve your own blog post as well.

I'm currently working remotely through some extremely lucky means (Company I worked with full-time let me work remotely for a year) and I would love to continue doing this full-time.

My biggest hurdle is finding a company that is interested in hiring a junior-intermediate remote worker. I just recently officially graduated and only have 2 years of 'real' experience and it seems most companies that offer remote work are looking for workers with 5+ years of experience.

When did you start this lifestyle? Do you find the benefits outweigh the positives? How do you balance having a family/wife/children?
There are multiple projects/products out there for this, some of which are linked here and some of which are not. Not all are currently available. There was a fair amount of discussion and useful information in a Brian Krebs article: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/gear-to-block-juice-jacki...

USB Condom: ~$10, available. Tends towards either a bare board with USB connectors or that board with plastic shrink tubing on it. (https://www.crowdsupply.com/xipiter/usbcondom) (http://www.usbcondoms.com/) (probably an earlier version but the same person: http://int3.cc/collections/frontpage/products/usbcondoms)

UmbrellaUSB: ~$12, available soon? More polished/finished looking than the USBCondom, got their information on voltages from the USBCondom folks (see comments in the Krebs article above). Working on fulfillment of their Kickstarter (funded July 3). (http://www.umbrellausb.com/)

ChargeDefense: ~$??, a "coming soon" page, a picture of a prototype, and maybe more in September. (http://www.chargedefense.com/)

LockedUSB: ~$20, available. More technical details available, more expensive and very blocky looking - expect it to block any adjacent ports. Technical information indicates that the single unit should work with both Apple and non-Apple devices (https://lockedusb.com/product/lockedusb-adapter-charger-fire...)

Practical Meter: ~$20, available. Protects ONLY when used with their optimized 3-in-1 charging cables otherwise passes data through. Provides a 5-bar indicator of current. (http://www.powerpractical.com/product/practical-meter) more details in their kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/david-toledo/the-practi...)

PortPilot: ~$60, not yet available. Much more expensive, MUCH more informative, switchable between data/no data. Includes a display showing possible and actual power draw, etc. Almost a development/diagnostic device. (https://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/portpilot)

At least 3 listed below via Amazon (2 in UK): PortaPow $7 (2 versions, www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GC4AJOU, looks like a "beat you to market" device), and Pisen ~$1.70 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E8ALIYU and http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E8AJ41E).
Self cite. Nice. Very authoritative.

>> If one party spends $100M on their message, and the
>> other just says it loudly at city council meetings
>
> In fact, nothing like this happens.

That is precisely what happens.

You should lobby. Or at least watch your local equivalent to C-SPAN. See how the game is played before you comment.
Most iOS jailbreaks have required a USB connection, so it seems the USB port was/is an attack surface. I haven't looked at the individual exploits used in each jailbreak, though.

And this is a more "embedded" example: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-Lightning-Cable-Hacke...
I have a feeling that adoption for D-lang is going to be even harder today because of the glut of new languages we have that now solve the same problems, specifically (IMO) Rust and Go.

D may be a fine language, but it never really marketed itself or got the "killer app/library" that convinced people to give it a try.
Poop to power and the trials of entrepreneurship
I think it would be amusing if these "sympathetic NSA agent tipoffs" are actually tipoffs of bugs they've seen utilized by Iranian, Russian, etc. intelligence agencies and would put activists friendly to American values at risk, but can't be revealed publically since that would reveal those ever-popular intelligence "sources and methods" of the NSA, or even the U.S. Intelligence Community at large.

We already know that Tor is first and foremost a scheme to enable U.S. covert and clandestine operations, so it wouldn't be that surprising to see the USG trying to fine tune the balance of Tor security to be breakable against bugs only they possess while ironclad against vulnerabilities known to the rest of the world.
Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX [pdf]
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
There are bugfixes in the x.org code based from a "@tycho.nsa.gov" developer that might even be from the Bush 43 Administration...
how is the language barrier? do you speak decent vietnamese or can you get by with mostly english?
I can see that for some kinds of admin tasks, but why package management? At least on Debian, the package manager is already declarative: There's an install/upgrade planner that figures out how to get from the current system state to the final desired state, given constraints such as packages' declared Requires/Conflicts/etc. lines. If the system is already at that state, it does nothing.
I think this zooms in too far on the last level. Very nice, though!
The rationale for not investing in the first three areas is that there's already an 800lb gorilla in each.

What I see is an environment where if you can chip away and get a very small percentage of a big market, it's still financially rewarding. I'm actually surprised at how I've fared against some massive competitors on some small projects in Google SERPs.
Downvoted for this? Thankless job indeed.

Thank you.

(I will say, substantive discussion for a topic like this seems hard. The people really interested in this are those who haven't heard of it, which means they will have little input. From what I've seen, topics like this usually grow slowly as experienced people post interesting anecdotes or general PL tangents, and others hop on).
I don't have any objection to basic assessment tests, such as the Iowa Basic Skills test. It's been used around the USA since the 1930s (my mother grew up in Iowa in the 1940s and took the test every year!). It's useful for gauging general progress, but I would definitely object to using it as a "final exam" used for determining future advancement. I don't think the article even hints at that.
Show HN: Django Project Page
Sin City 2 BTS covering the RAW difference pre-VFX and editing
Charity Campaign for Officer Wilson Is Run by Ferguson PD
Interesting. I can't find the exact literature since the wording is not clear to me but I think you may be correct. Being less than 183 days in Canada and NOT receiving any income in Canada, makes you a non-resident that doesn't have to pay Canadian taxes.

[1] - http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/nnrsdnts/cmmn/rsdncy-eng.html
[2] - http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/nnrsdnts/ndvdls/nnrs-eng.html#tx...
Sent an email to your interfacelab email address. :-)
I used to work with a guy who was a body-builder type, and all he would eat was chicken breast, breakfast, lunch and dinner. I guess you have to pick what's important to you.

I think that if your goal is just to be generally healthy, there's no need to eat that much protein.
send this to my friends whiners
Patch Adams: A smile is not enough for saving the world
But what/where is the metadata? Is it functionally equivalent to the Gutenberg's info (e.g. in the RDF dump). Or something else?

I was looking to write an alternative search for Gutenberg, based on the RDF dump, so would be happy to collaborate/discuss ideas.