skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll be happy to know that all European Union passports grant you access to the embassies and consulates of all other European Union countries. So if you're abroad and want access to UK embassies in the event of an independent Scotland, then that would not be a problem. Check the back page of your passport for the full terms.
> Because of the need for network management. Even the idealised Internet has a few centralised resources, such as the IP address space (IANA + the hierarchy of NICs).

How is that an issue? You mean it's a problem because of the lack of volunteers for the job, or because of technical issues to achieve proper networking?

Guifi has network management policies which you have to follow to be part of the mesh (IP address space, network topology, routing at supernode borders, QoS, etc.) but everything else is decentralized. To be honest I've never been their user, so I'm not sure how good their networking is.

Guifi is quite active in Catalonia. What surprises me is how lacking mesh networks are everywhere else. Perhaps I should be surprised at how active Guifi is.
I believe it uses redis as one of the standard storage methods, but can interchangably use memcached, ssdb and beanydb. It's a bit hard to be sure from google translate documentation though.
10 things you should know about the supermoon
I think it's healthy that this discussion expresses amazement, skepticism, methodological questions, and observations about competition for public media attention, and frequent instances of journals cynically manipulating publication for maximal sensationalism under a scientific patina.

Strictly my own imagination, but I'm anticipating the introduction down the road of the world's most advanced hair removal system that gives cyclists a big aerodynamic advantage proven by scientific tests. Yes buy the XYZ system and fly to victory! Wow, I really am jaded, but too many times we've seen it happen.

So much bad science obscures the good work because the latter doesn't make the news, it's far too boring to attract attention. It's the small incremental, tedious, repetitious, careful, persistent work that provides the real advances. Edison I think said, "we find 20,000 ways it doesn't work" and learn something every time we try.

I propose a simple set of remedies. Journals should give highest priority to publishing careful replications of prior studies, whether it's yes/no/maybe. Negative studies whether original or replications are give as much priority and those confirmatory. Novel associations are of course welcome if meeting standards of adequate power to discern something beyond quirky results.

Ultimately, the impact of hyperbolic claims about the meaning of research causes the greatest distortions of scientific process and progress. Journal editors can solve the great bulk of misinformation their journals promulgate. It's remarkably simple. All they have to do is issue an edict, all that authors can write about are the history, background, what they did and factual results of their work. These "rules" apply to observational and experimental work all the same. IOW it would be forbidden to draw conclusions about the what the outcomes mean, what is proven, or what "causes" what.

Sure giving context about past results is necessary and usefully informative, but conclusions are for we the readers to determine. If this was the case, suddenly the strident "answers" and premature incorporation of findings into practice will be sharply reduced. Hysteria will subside. We can then actually use our scientific talent to accomplish honest goals, and solve the real and daunting problems we actually have.

Perhaps this seems a radical view and maybe it is. It's not whether I'm right or anybody will make any of these substantial changes. It is about getting back to careful thoughtful scientific inquiry and reducing misdirected human energies.
After 15mph a great deal of energy is used to overcome wind resistance.

I wouldn't have figured it to be so much but this doesn't seem so incredible to me.

Similar thing for swimming.
Hootsuite and Contactzilla Team Up for Contact Management with Social Listening
Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster'
Most awesome thing ever seen on HackerNews !!!
Or ReGrub - which has the awesome advantage(?) of being "burger" backwards ...
Setting up a HTTPS dev workflow on OS X
Isn't imagemagick a problem for a high perfomance site. I did never find a solution for the GB sized temp files which are created by imagemagick sometimes. I had better results with http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk .
Building Octify Part 1
When advertising companies weren't tracking my every move I had no problem with their ads. Since they seem to have decided I need to be profiled rather than to just use the contents of the page to determine what ad to display I have decided to stop honouring my end of the unwritten agreement and I feel absolutely no sense of guilt for that.

If an advertisement company pledges to stop any and all tracking I'll happily white-list them, even though I absolutely loathe any form of advertising I think that a company that would make such a pledge and would stand by it would deserve my support.
There's a couple of points going around in my head which I find interesting / relevant when it comes to emscripten/asm.js, the web and mobile platforms:

- asm.js code runs faster then Java code running through the Dalvik VM on Android (https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/08/01/staring-at-th...)

- porting and cross-compiling code to JS with emscripten is (arguably) easier then setting up and working with the Android NDK

- the new Javascript LLVM backend in iOS8 Safari runs asm.js code very well, and Safari on iOS8 adds WebGL support

- the web is a the only open software distribution platform without gate keepers (seriously, this is starting to get ridiculous: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/)

- web apps don't need all the code-signing and certification hoopla that native mobile apps need to go through

- app shops are becoming saturated and have the same or worse visibility problems as the web even though they are 'curated'

- you don't pay the 30% platform tax on the web (or rather: you're free to choose your store front-end)

- in the end, most successful mobile games need so little CPU and GPU performance that it really doesn't make a difference whether they run native or in BASIC, WebGL or Metal

I think that the advantages that a single centralized app-shop offered in the past over the web have already or will erode very fast once they have to manage a very high number of apps, basically modern AOLs but with shitty search engines. The open web is the only way out, even if it just means that multiple, decentralized app shops will be built on which compete with each other.

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Do you think small businesses MUST have an app?
Is happening the same as happened with websites some years ago?
10 Facts about iOS8 for Mobile App Devs
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you are ripping them off...
I'm sure the Swiss do, but just an aside that plenty of EU countries allow members from other countries to vote in their elections. E.g. here in Ireland I think we only restrict constitutional referenda to Irish citizens.
Users can choose which storage to use in config file. Beansdb for memcached protocol and SSDB for redis protocol. SSDB is an alternative to Redis. Or you can use any other storage backend which is using these two protocols.
SSDB compatible with redis protocol
Suppose that to log in to friendface, you enter your username, then it shows you the cartoon elephant that you selected beforehand, and you enter your password.

When fake-friendface wants to phish you, they get your username, then they give that username to friendface and receive your cartoon elephant in exchange. They show you the cartoon elephant, and you decide that this must be friendface.
Ask HN: How can an individual get into machine learning?
HN, I'm a web developer who's good at front-end programming and okayish at back-end programming.

Reading articles on large companies making breakthroughs in machine learning and neural networking makes a part of me quite excited.

So I wanted to ask if it's useful for an individual to get into this sort of stuff? Is this a viable career path right now? What beginner books or sites can you recommend?
Wearables, Payments, Chickens and Eggs
Qt 5.4 Alpha Available
Given that they're giving discounts on the current MacBook line (at least here in Ireland) it would seem they'll upgrade those as well.
Whether US wanted to or intended to "colonize" the Middle East is irrelevant. For a few years US used its army so that it could hold swathes of Iraqi territory to do what it does and that is just a fact.
As far as I see it waterloo doesn't advertise itself as a polytechnic, however it might be a fault of their marketing department.

I do not think I am mistaken with their intentions, why doesn't UoW charge similar rates (fees) as other polytech rather than charging the rates of MIT/Oxbridge ? They offer 4 years bachelors degree similar to the ones offered by any other top universities.

I disagree that mechanical engineering should be put in the same ranks as electricians/auto-mechanics.
Your math is off a bit[0][1] but you're right, it's a vanishingly small probability of a single collision. This is fairly academic though, when you're talking about an adversary exploiting weaknesses in the algorithm itself, and not a perfect PRF.

[0] http://preshing.com/20110504/hash-collision-probabilities/

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281+billion+*+7+billio...
Wow, really cool. Since you're already using brunch [1]. You should checkout chaplin [2]. It's a backbone framework built by the same guys who made brunch. It supports coffescript, pub/sub, dynamic url construction, plus a bunch of other features that make working with it a breeze.

[1] http://brunch.io/
[2] http://chaplinjs.org/
The real-world differences between asm.js and PNaCl are really not that big (basically only whether threads are true POSIX threads, or WebWorkers). Here's a (shameless plug) demo page which has the same demos as emscripten and PNaCl compiled from the same C++ code (warning: most of the PNaCl demos need the latest Chrome Canary): http://floooh.github.io/oryol/
My first "professional" coding was on a TRS-80 as a spotty 13/14 year old. My Uncle had one that ran pricing software for his double glazing business. I spent my summer holidays debugging their BASIC application.

When he upgraded he eventually gave me the thing.
This probably could almost be a FAQ.

Have a look here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783550

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645671
Depends of the business, they need to be aware that having an app is amazing.. but they have to work a lot to make it working!
No it's pegged to USD because it is backed by BTSX. BTSX does have value. It's an experiment, but it might just work. Perhaps this guy can explain how it works a little better than I have:

http://bitcoinist.net/bitsharesx-i-join-the-grand-experiment...
Application virtualization is not easy. Docker has done an amazing job of marketing the benefits, but the long-term solution is that OS and application developers (not sysadmins) will design minimal OS+app bundles. See recent discussion on Microsoft research, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8257250

Docker+CoreOS mimics Google infrastructure - CoreOS is probably a better "minimal server OS" choice for Docker than Ubuntu.
Here an interesting article about how to deal with iOS Betas: http://www.chupamobile.com/blog/2014/09/08/dealing-with-ios-...
Voyager.io – The Story of Us
Thanks for the reference. I was unaware of Wiseman's replication. Here is Wiseman's peer reviewed paper, http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/petsBJP.pdf with most of the data at the end. Some data is missing like the time of departure, which could reveal other correlations. However, I would say, that with the information available in that paper it seems pretty random and doesn't suggest any unexplained phenomenon.
I totally agree about both statements. My next hands on and post on that topic will be about moving from Ubuntu to CoreOS and what it implies for our existing infrastructure (I'm the article author)
>But if you have a billion dollars of gold in your basement, you should be very, very paranoid.

If i had so many bitcoins as Satoshi Nakamoto i would certainly not store them in my basement. I'd split my private key using n:m scheme and store them in secure deposit boxes in banks.
Why is that? Price is known and discussed, client is happy, i'm happy. What's the problem?

I suppose you don't do services to clients? The most important part is that you don't undervalue your own services. See here some opinions of patio11:

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/463934642500804608

Do not price software at COGS! :-) - Perhaps the most important lesson in any development / selling gig. (i had to learn it the hard way, initial discussed price was too low, had to put a lot of more hours in to get even below minimal wage - once but never again)
> As far as I see it waterloo doesn't advertise itself as a polytechnic

The marketing I see has very strong focus on co-op and particularity. I don't think anyone went into UW Software Engineering thinking they'd be doing ground-breaking CS theory. (Pure math or physics, on the other hand...)

> I do not think I am mistaken with their intentions, why doesn't UoW charge similar rates (fees) as other polytech rather than charging the rates of MIT/Oxbridge ?

What rates do other polytechs charge? Are you talking about UW's domestic or international tuition? The latter is mostly supply and demand.

> I disagree that mechanical engineering should be put in the same ranks as electricians/auto-mechanics.

I agree so it's probably a good thing mech eng co-ops design and debug auto assembly plants :)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
In real life, the three colliding bodies would convert their kinetic energy into heat and combine into a very hot body. Sort of how we think the moon was created, from a Mars-sized body colliding with Earth long ago.

But in a numerical simulation, usually what happens is that three bodies on a collision source approach one another but, because of the limitations of numerical differential equation solving, suddenly fly away from each other in a rather non-physical way, and with more energy than they had to begin with.

The tl;dr: most of the funny effects in a simulator arise from the limitations of numerical simulation methods, and many of those aren't representative of real physics.
There is a chat search functionality available in slack. Not sure about hipchat since I haven't used it.
The comment you replied to actually said "Groovy and Grails" which is correct because Groovy was originally intended by its creator to be a standalone product with applications using it to be separate products, as with other languages. The phrase "Groovy on Grails" was promoted afterwards by some Grails developers who wanted their product's name to sound like "Ruby on Rails", regarding Grails as the only viable use case for Groovy of any adoption potential.
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Thank you for the links, sorry for posting an oft-repeated question.
You don't even have to submit anything to Mozilla. Firefox is able to sideload extensions just fine (unlike Chrome). Just make it available for download straight from your website.
This is not completly true. When using Gmail together with Google Apps, Gmail will include the sender's IP in the X-Originating-IP header.
Np. Way to avoid this is to do this:

google site:news.ycombinator.com subject of your question

More often than not a bunch of links will pop up.

good luck with studying!

j
Blink(1) – the USB RGB LED notification light (Open source hardware)
A bit off-topic, but I would really like to see (P)NaCl apps directly supported on Android outside the browser, no need to mess with the NDK or Java. One can dream, right? :)
Because it's not using anything special. It's just checking when you are inactive and then changing the favicon/title and HTML. Three things which you should be able to do on any site. I'm struggling to think of how this could possibly be prevented
Quote from the article: “Research shows that very few people find advertisements in more established media annoying,”

I wonder where this "research" was conducted. I find any and all advertising annoying, no matter where it is located.

The difference between "more established media" (which I interpret the author to mean print/television) and the web is that the user has little control over being force-fed the advertising.

What they are really upset about is loosing the control to "force feed" users ads against their will.
I wonder how many functions are suppressed from issuing error reports, if any.
Previous test: "leg-shaving reduced drag by 0.6 per cent"

New test: "The tests showed that shaving his legs reduced Thomas’s drag by about 7 per cent"

Yet the blurb says: ''Even more confounding was that the results contradicted earlier finding''. What's contradictory about those results? Be it 0.6% or 7%, shaving your legs clearly reduces drag.
Dillo is so awesome! I urge you to apt-get install dillo

The forgotten feeling when computers responded immediately.

I guess I'll be using it for some web.
Nice, I remember being shown DSL and being amazed someone could make an OS that small.

> DSLR's approach to security is different . It is possible to run as root without causing a global disaster.

Is there any more information available on how this is achieved?
To expand on the creator's response, all resumes appear to be printable to pdf just as you would print anything to pdf from your browser. I keep my resume as html+css and print it to PDF as needed for this very reason
"...comes pre-loaded with many useful applications and breaths* new life into..."

*Grammar Nazi alert - breathes
My first linux that I managed to run on a vm. I only had access to dial up internet and thus could only download a very small package. The screenshots make me very nostalgic indeed.
Except a16z was their Series B investor, Oculus raised their Series A from a bunch of mid-tier VCs which implies it wasn't a hugely competitive round hence probably wasn't on particularly favourable terms.

By the time a16z invested Oculus had John Carmack as CTO and they already demoed to huge interest at E3. It was already a much later stage company by that point.
South China sea had been the traditional 'naval silk road' of ancient Imperial China for hundreds years while both China and the neighboring tribes/countries under tributary system hadn't learned the concept 'nation' from the western colonists.

Since 17th century, a few islands had been controlled by various western countries and more had been marked or renamed.But the pirates, armed merchants and provincial navy of imperial China were still the dominant power in the area for a long time.

Chinese people totally lost control of it after the Sino-French war which changed the geopolitical status drastically:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-French_War

The nine-dash line stems from the eleven-dash line when ROC was the ally of the US after WWII and was accepted as the transferee of those islands from Japanese army who had acquired them from France/Great Britain.

But the ROC were too eager to fight back to the mainland instead of sending naval troops to guard those islands.It just chose one island Taiping as a strong point.

The unattended reefs and islands have been occupied by various countries in all kinds of sneaky/funny ways merely in past 30 years after the US-Vietnam war.

The validity argument makes no sense in this 'occupy and claim to own' game. Every country is a thief and the biggest is Vietnam whose navy had been more powerful than China's with the support from the former USSR during the PRC-USSR conflict.

Maybe the ROC in Taiwan should be the rightful owner according to the arrangement after WWII. But it is too weak to say anything now.

The whole history of the area is a vivid example of military power dictates terms.
Target CEO Fired – Can You Be Fired If Your Company Is Hacked?
How does the power efficiency of DSLR compare to Ubuntu? Would I get longer battery life?
Thanks for the tip. I actually did originally start with Chaplin. It helped me to start quickly, but later I replaced it with a very simple, custom Backbone-based MVC (Chaplin-inspired to some degree).
Rakuten Buys Ebates for $1B
I use a passowrd manager (KeePass), but don't have it connected to my browser to auto-complete forms. Yet this hack could potentially work on me. I can imagine browsing several tabs at night, opening gmail, fb, my bank, etc. while reading reddit and getting tricked into filling in a phishing form. Granted, I always double check my bank login, but this is still a very valid attack no matter how "sophisticated" you are.
Dollar Accounts Over the Bitcoin Network
I cannot even think of how many security vulnerabilities exists in these applications used for this "remake".
Backoff malware could be stealing your credit card information
The future of Little Printer
Dillo also has an easy, approachable plugin architecture: http://www.dillo.org/dpi1.html

This makes me feed sorry for the people dealing with the XUI/JS/CSS cesspit of Firefox plugins.