skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is why I'm of the mind that both canonical identity and permission need to be managed in a globally distributed fashion with blockchain. In order to facilitate the level of data transfer that would need to happen between devices to accommodate the distribution of global scale permission data, networking does need to change fundamentally.

I envision my fridge having a permission entry that neighbor can use my car tomorrow, and also that a person I will never meet has purchased a ticket for a flight to Argentina next week. That data is constantly being shared on a mesh network with my car and everybody else's I drive down the road next to, across all of my devices and those of every other participant. No government or corporation should be able to have the whole set of data, and none of it should be able to have a very long half-life.

The only way we can move forward to a truly connected version of the future is with trust, and the only way to have a truly trusted security model is to have it be globally distributed. NDN may or may not be the next version of networking to support it, but I'm rather confident that TCP/IP isn't going to be the way we get there.
I absolutely love VICE News and how they go first hand in dire situations that are under reported. However, their pop culture section is worse than trash, only a step above 4chan. Example: A segment where a kid makes anti-semitic jokes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQKtz4d-QiM&list=UUn8zNIfYAQ.... Hope VICE will grow up and remove these unnecessarily stupid content that they think are "edgy".
Here is Coursera's official response: http://blog.coursera.org/post/96686805237/response-to-report....

We have already implemented fixes and mitigation strategies for all of the vulnerabilities - including completely disabling type-ahead hinting for email address on our instructor interfaces (instructors must now enter the complete email address of a learner in order to manually enroll him or her in the instructor's course) and rate limiting and referrer header checking on APIs to slow down and stop enumeration attacks by third parties to discover learner enrollment status for courses.

Finally, we would like to thank Dr. Mayer for reporting these security problems and helping us make Coursera a more secure and privacy conscious platform for our learners.
This is unbelievably accurate. Not even joking. And the last response I got was indeed, more or less, blasphemy!
Another factor besides habit and status: perhaps Chinese culture is simply more accepting of animal cruelty?
there's one thing I don't understand about this robot, as well as the roomba: how does it clean corners?
So noSQL was absoleted by relational databases in '80
It's bad to be rude, but it shouldn't be illegal to be rude.
A woman called Frances Gabe essentially did this with her entire house ('the self-cleaning house'): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/garden/son-of-carwash-the-...
Makes me wonder, how often does accidents like Colgan happen that don't result in a crash?

Are they even public? Investigated?
Tim Cook Says Apple to Add Security Alerts for iCloud Users
When I graduated from college in 2011, my good friend and classmate went to work as an engineer for a high-frequency trading firm. They offered him a $160K base salary and a signing bonus of ~$20k.

I'm not surprised at the $200k offer.
"Western culture" has very similar (and extant wrt sturgeons amongst others if mostly curbed when it comes to mammals) issues, Chinese weren't the ones slaughtering charismatic megafauna for fun and status symbols in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Moto 360 circular smartwatch released by Motorola
> This doesn't mean it's not scientific by definition.

On the contrary, that is exactly what it means. Science requires empirically testable, falsifiable theories backed up by empirical observations. If we only have observations, it's not science, because observations are neither particularly useful nor falsifiable.

> Predictive value is also helpful, but again not required to be considered science ...

Many commentators on this issue argue that an empirical, falsifiable theory that is able to make predictions about things not yet observed is a requirement for science.

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

Quote: "A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that is acquired through the scientific method, and repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimentation.[1][2] As with most (if not all) forms of scientific knowledge, scientific theories are inductive in nature and aim for predictive power and explanatory force."

"The strength of a scientific theory is related to the diversity of phenomena it can explain."

Also, very important, observations (descriptions) can only be a preliminary to shaping an explanation, a testable theory (an explanation). Observations without a theoretical dimension are indistinguishable from stamp collecting and are a step toward science, but are not science themselves.
This whole recycling thing is a joke and really pisses me off.

I used to be big on recycling and composting. When I moved in with my current roommate, he didn't do any of it. He just dumped everything into the closest bin, and dumped the bin in a random colored bin. After many arguments with him, I've come around to his way of thinking.

The calculation he had made was actually a very smart one. He wasn't careless, he was actually being very careful. He calculated that he makes on average $150 an hour. If he wastes about 20 minutes a month or more sorting stuff, he basically is already behind. Even worse, sorting adds so much mental stress that the cost of this actually much higher. Even for my salary range, which is about 1/3rd of my roommates, it is still a waste of time to sort trash.

Here is some dude optimizing his time by not wasting it on recycling and he already has a competitive advantage over me, while here I am struggling to get through some for loops. Why should I regress myself even more?

The system heavily incentivizes not bothering. I wish the world was designed where I could care about the planet, but we as a society have chosen to not reward that.
When announced at I/O, I was ready to buy it as a personal Android Wear device (already am developing for the Samsung Gear Live). With the announcement of the LGs and the black bar triggering what must be OCD, I will give it a pass. I wonder if they should have waited with an announcement until it was ready...
If the public thought psychiatrists were all quacks, I would agree, but the public's regard for psychiatrists means their evaluation of a public figure could be very damaging. Therefore I think the Goldwater Rule still serves a purpose.
Is he a journalist now?
>high in cholesterol and saturated fats, usually high in sodium

...which are not bad for you. That's part of the controversy.

Eating cholesterol doesn't raise your cholesterol. Piles of studies show this. Eating carbs raises your cholesterol.

There are basically no studies that show eating saturated fat is bad for you. The one study that was pushed by industry (and a SINGLE nutrition researcher who happened to be leading the FDA) back in the 50's was using hydrogenated coconut oil. Even the recent FDA guidelines admit there's no research-based reason to avoid saturated fats.

And salt turns out to be fine for you unless you've already got high blood pressure.

>devoid of many nutrients that are good for long term health and exercise

I do eat vegetables. I eat almost zero fructose (what you'd find in a small handful of blueberries, once a day or so), and less than a couple of teaspoons-worth of sucrose in a typical day. And I get about 6-8 hours of intense exercise in a typical week.

But all of that was true before I went low-carb, and I was stuck around 200 lbs unless I effectively starved myself. With no other lifestyle changes, switching to a low-carb (and high fat) diet caused me to drop 30 pounds in six months; my memory improved, my thinking is more clear, and I've been healthier (and lighter) than I've been since high school.

No other diets I've tried have worked (including going nearly vegan at one point, and trying to go low-fat caused me to sink into depression, which is a known side-effect). This one works and is awesome. I don't see ever going back.
How would you share a temp access to a priv ftp without giving your credentials?
Hi, I was wondering how would you share a temporary access to a private ftp without giving your private credentials or creating a new ftp user (because, let's say, you don't have control over this) ?

I am thinking of developing a platform on which ftp's owners add there credential in a secure way, and create a temporary access to their private ftps accessible by a web UI. And let's imagine that ftp's owners could restrict access to specific folders/files of their ftp. Then, they can share a unique URL and let other users access the files without giving their credentials.

Is there already a solution like this?

Thanks!
These quotes fail to notice that, notwithstanding all the non-repeatable results in physics that come and go, physicists eventually settle on a few extremely reliable theoretical precepts, precepts that lead to new technology. A classic example is quantum physics, the most successful and reliable scientific theory we have, a theory that makes numerical predictions about nature that prove accurate to better than ten decimal places:

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2011/05/05/the-most-preci...

Psychologists have many non-repeatable results but don't shape reliable theories about their subject. Physicists have many non-repeatable results but do shape reliable theories about their subject. The computer I'm sitting at is proof of that.
It's interesting to me that using the height of the bounce against the ground for estimating the spring constant is worse than using the height of the bounce against the battery.
Hey man, take the sad part out, life is too short to get sad, do what you like, do what makes you happy, don't bother about labels, you might be a Hacker not a Programmer, keep on having fun :-D
I had no idea that such things are possible in C. The things about I've read recently (the "friendly" C suggestion) and this seem like violations of the spirit of the language. And for what, really? The language looses its signature predictability, which to me seemed like a great feature of C.

If you write crappy code and expect the compiler to fix it for you, you should maybe consider another language. I can only imagine how hard it is to write reliable system software in a language that does these things.
Sure, if the reason why you flagged a story gets fixed, unflagging it is a good idea.
Fixed (YC S14) is hiring engineer #1 – Rails
> Ironically, a second definition of "common" is "showing a lack of taste."

Like Common Lisp? Explains a lot. /sarcasm
At the time, they were still owned by Google, and it clearly kick-started the category (something Google wanted). For that - it succeeded.

I'm curious about the black bar as well. They show something being below it in the exploded view, so I wonder if there's additional controls there?
I don't know about the 360 eye, but the roomba has a little protruding spinner (http://bit.ly/1AdpUzs) that allows it to move things into the sweeping area. Works reasonably well on corners - it doesn't get dust right in the very tight part of the corner, but neither would a regular rolling vacuum cleaner.
Motorola Announces the New Moto X
Man, I love the USA, such a great country.
I take issue with your use of the term very little.

Granted it didn't change the ruling party, however our system isn't just the ruling party there is also the consideration of the majority of the house.

From the linked source on your page [1] we see:
41 Labour MPs were sent to Westminster
11 Liberal Democrats
1 Conservative

From the overall election we know that there was a total of 646 MPs in Westminster [2]. So combine the (41 + 11) - 1 is a combined swing to a Conservative majority in the House of Commons. That's giving the Conservatives about an 8% greater majority.

Whilst Scotland didn't pick the Westminster parliament, they certainly had a hand in providing opposition to any Conservative government.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_ele...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election...
"What do you do when you realize you are not a programmer?"

Double down. You enjoy the realization of creation but not the act itself. You like the view from the top of the mountain but you hate hiking.

Either come to terms with the hiking part, or resign yourself to only seeing pictures of the mountain top.

The third route is to simplify the workflow required to get to the final realization of creation but that tends to be a magnitude more difficult than the typical act of creation.
I think one of the bits I liked most was "Romeo (Retired Old Men Eating Out) Club" - looking at its website it seems like quite a large thing over there. I know that my Grandma goes to something similar (restricted to just tea and bingo), but it makes me wonder if a similar organisation exists in the UK; a lot of the older folk I know just aren't very social any more, simply due to the fact that their social groups have died off or are spread out and have restricted travel options. Social interaction seems such a huge part of our existence to be missing for any individual (unless that's what they want of course).

Again, anecdotally; I've found amongst the older folks that those engaged in discussion and interaction keep their wits about them longer/easier than those bound by isolation.

Anyway, enough babbling on - time to go do some research.
This things are so popular right now in Japan. After going to the shops and seeing a demo of them, I'm also wondering how they work in a Japanese style apartment (most of which are tiny).

My friend got one (forgot the brand) because she didn't have time to clean.
Not just German Telekom, several other operators around the globe deployed ATM in the 90s for ISDN services. However, just after a few years, most companies started dropping ATM in favour of IP based networks. By "it failed to see real world usage", I meant, it failed to sustain itself in real world.
The CDN is down :/
Which is not going to help the officer. If the officer deniesmmisconduct it looks pretty bad if they have deleted the evidence.
That is absolutely true but the main driver behind the replacement is the increased address space. None of the other changes seems to have been a driver at all.

So as far as the consumers go IPv4 is 'good enough' and if and when IPv6 will finally take over it will remain the de-facto world wide networking protocol used to power the internet for a very very long time.

Cisco attempting to drive a wedge between IPv4 and IPv6 in the midst of this (very very slow) transition seems like a very strange move to me, almost certainly bound to fail or in the end not replacing IPv4/IPv6 but maybe ending up as a transport layer underneath it (killing most of the advantages it would offer in the process).

And that's besides trying to replace TCP which would require re-writing/adapting of virtually every computer program active on the net today.
he's describing voltdb (that he built)
This technique is described in Peter van der Linden's book "Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets" (and also explained really well by you).
We're building Inbox, an app to develop services on top of email, using Flask and SQLAlchemy: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox.
The ambient light sensor is in that black bar, probably the only smartwatch with auto brightness control.
I think it's reasonably clear what has happened.

What is less clear to me is why the Comdard Markdown (which is what I think I'll call it from now on) folks are so desperate to choose a name that delegitimizes other versions of markdown, including the original. And now that they've chosen a second name that does the same (although not quite as blatantly), it's clearly not accidental.

Even people like me who broadly agree with almost everything they've said and tend towards their side in this debate can see it's not a classy move.

No reasonable person could have disagreed with calling it something entirely new.

Some people could have disagreed with calling it something that indicates it's a kind of markdown but doesn't try to usurp the whole ecosystem (eg. X flavoured markdown). I presume Gruber would have still been irritated that it isn't a superset, but most people would have thought it was acceptable given the situation.

Choosing any name with connotations like 'standard', 'basic', 'definitive', 'normal', 'authentic', 'original', 'true', 'certified', 'ratified' or yes, 'common' is pushing the limits of good taste.
I want to allow rich open data formats but provide grossly superior tools for their creation, viewing, and editing in a single slick interface. People dont want a personal wiki. Or to use org mode or whatever. They want the computer from the star trek enterprise, tailored to them. Simple, clean, interactive, adaptive

I have a unique (so far) webstack that is enables alot of magic but some of the tech is new so theres alot of exploring atm.
Also gender. Public loves under-represented genders.
Raft itself is very nice, and the paper
https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...
Does an excellent job in explaining it, but
I have some problems with this claim:
"A user study with 43 students
at two universities shows that Raft is significantly easier
to understand than Paxos: after learning both algorithms,
33 of these students were able to answer questions about
Raft better than questions about Paxos".

Honestly, what I think happened is this: They first explained paxos to the poor students, then asked questions.
In a later session explained Raft and asked questions.
Can't it be the students started processing the problem of distributed consensus between the sessions so they got a better grasp of the topic? This would mean paxos helped them understand raft better.
Anyway I'm nitpicking etc etc.
The quantity and variety of things that I've opened up during my lifetime without 'gloves and a mask' would probably scare you very much. The worst mistake I made to date is grinding off the top of a BLY90 as a kid before I knew what a MSDS is. So far so good, I think these folks will be fine as long as they wash their hands afterwards before eating, cleaning up after you've dropped a fluorescent tube is probably a lot more dangerous than this.

Don't go and turn anything into a fine powder!

Probably the most risky thing they did here was cutting up the batteries with a hacksaw which will create a bit of sawdust composed of metal and some electrolyte. But that's pretty easy to get rid of and won't become airborne. Using a grinder for the same job would be much more dangerous.
InfluxDB too, a time-series database written entirely in Go.

http://influxdb.com
I've seen them at work in Japan and they are far from being efficient because of the space constraints, and because there are usually carpets everywhere in Japan too so it makes the surface uneven. They are way too expensive too, yet they seem to sell pretty well. Sharp even has a funny model that say "Ouch!" ("Itai" in Japanese) every time it hits something. That's cute, but that shows how stupid these robots are.
Thanks for the feedback.

This is a service to provide cloud sync for private data, both 1-on-1 and between groups. It is intended to be used by app developers as their cloud storage platform.

The difference between this and existing options is that Selective Share enforces client-side encryption. Unencrypted data won't be accepted for storage.

We will provide a client-side library that handles all the encryption and sync details which allows the app developer to work with local files only.
The method has even been patented! http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5567541
Assert you rights, on and off the street. If you give them up on the street you may find you don't have them in the court room.
How to generate news?
I am thinking to create a news digest app.
Which show you the daily hot news.

But where to get the news source?
From their rss and api ?
Yes, they have the log entry, but it can still be rolled back, can't it? Here's how I understand the process:

1. Client sends log entry to leader

2. Leader appends log entry, forwards it to followers

3. Majority of followers confirm

4. Leader commits the log entry

5. Leader confirms the commit to the client

6. Followers commit on the next heartbeat

What happens if the leader goes away between 5 and 6? To my eyes, it looks like the followers will time out, elect a new leader, and have to roll back the last log entry.
"Even IPv6 hasn't picked up" - this needs correction.

http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...

http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/

You can notice that 9% of the internet users in the US are IPv6-enabled. Germany is over 11%. Belgium is almost 30% (of course due to smaller population it's less in absolute host count).

How many IPv6 users this is in millions, is an exercise left for the reader.

The things are moving very very fast - lots of large SPs have bumped the values within this year from low-mid single digits to nontrivial double-digits, and lots more are in the pipe.

All major CDNs support it, helping IPv6-enable thousands of sites that don't run IPv4 on the server itself. I'm saddened by the fact that HN site, being Cloudflare customer, did not flip the switch - there's really zero excuses today. (http://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-the-last-reasons-to-n...)

(On a side note, there are today millions of users not worrying to have any IPv4 at all - on T-Mobile's network. See: https://conference.apnic.net/data/37/464xlat-apricot-2014_13...)

Here's another data point, from my home gateway (I'm in the remaining 70% of folks in Belgium who yet don't have IPv6 so I am using Hurricane Electric tunnel - and the Vlan50 is the IPv4-only internet connection, so that counter shows IPv4 user traffic + IPv4 tunnel traffic - so you can count it as "aggregate").

ay-home#sh int Tunnel0 | inc packets|escr
Description: Hurricane Electric -- Paris
5 minute input rate 5000 bits/sec, 6 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 5000 bits/sec, 3 packets/sec
171400464 packets input, 193001468663 bytes, 0 no buffer
90187695 packets output, 13837665814 bytes, 0 underruns
ay-home#sh int Vlan50 | inc packets|escr
Description: Outside - internet-facing
5 minute input rate 143000 bits/sec, 24 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 34000 bits/sec, 25 packets/sec
618491041 packets input, 607147678054 bytes, 38 no buffer
390716032 packets output, 83476555174 bytes, 0 underruns
ay-home#

Do your math.
I'm assuming "commit" means whatever "commit" means in the linked document.

EDIT: and it's not P(5...), it's P(Leader...) in the case I'm worrying about.