skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really long term observations without atmospheric distortion, really long baseline stuff with very precisely defined distances between the various elements. I'm not an astronomer but there have been quite a few proposals for such observatories, all have been shot down on practical grounds, not on grounds of not having some kind of benefit.

There has been talk of very large liquid based mirrors (limited in size on earth), the far side of the moon is free from radio interference from the earth and a bunch of other proposals. All of them were shot down based on a very simple observation: we don't have people on the moon, nor do we have a power plant or a way to install this stuff or assemble it out of pieces after landing it there.

But that might change.
The concepts of JWT encoding and encryption are orthogonal. While they can be used in conjunction with encryption, the question of whether or not the tokens themselves are "secure" is outside of the scope of their use. All standard encryption practices apply and there isn't anything special about using encryption with JWTs.

Answering your questions completely depends upon your application. There is, in general, no "most secure" algorithm for encryption and what you handle on the server completely depends upon the security goals of your application.

For example, I'm currently working on something that passes JWTs unencrypted and unsigned because the application simply doesn't need it. Furthermore, the application does have a method of tracing used tokens, but there isn't really a need for rotating keys or anything else like that.

Hope that helps.
The RIT reddit community was very helpful and supportive during beta testing. Glad to help bump up RIT's presence!
As an ancient field, the history of combinatorial mathematics could be traced back over 4000 years to the age of the Great Yu in ancient China.

Interesting perspective.I will sign up though I know zero chinese.
Are there any recruiters that accept these instead of the standard .doc format?

I get it - it's about 10,000X better than Word format (esp. if you don't particularly like Word) and a 9,000X better than PDF (which I prefer over .doc), but if a recruiter/agency/employer won't accept it in lieue of a Word file, then I'm not sure it has a future.

Any plans to get around that issue?
It's hard to reason about the economic consequences of secession with a comparison to Quebec, because Quebec didn't secede.

The point of the article is that without its own currency, Scotland could not hope to match Canada's success as an independent member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Especially in light of Europe's experience after the 2008 collapse, it's nuts to think you can share a currency without sharing a government.
Take a seat. You may be able to reverse the damage to your health
I like XCP over MC also, but they both have their pros and cons. I like the analogy though, so true!
Not a single person in their right mind would blame Satoshi(or even associate him with) the Mt Gox scandal.
finally someone replied. thanks for your input. I do want to use Angular.js but i am not sure if it is compatible with vaadin or not.

Btw, why Groovy on Grails ? Any specific reason ? I want to learn something which can land me a better job (if i want to cash that skill). So is GoG more popular or RoR ?
But does it boot LDOS? Alas, there are few references not on the web to LDOS, which I always felt was so much better than CP/M or MS-DOS

http://www.tim-mann.org/ldos.html
gmail, for instance, includes the client IP address in mail headers.

I learned this myself recently from an article here on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083798

Haven't checked it myself, just reported there by a former gmail engineer in the context of their anti-spammer efforts.
> I am British and have a British passport. If there is a Yes votes I will have to change to a Scottish passport, which I believe will have less value, or an English passport, which is not my identity.

Er, no one has proposed that England become independent of the UK -- if Scotland leaves, you could have a Scottish passport or end up with a British passport. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- comprised of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland -- without Scotland will still be the United Kingdom of (most of) Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- comprised of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Lol missing context:

"Or he's really right and everyone else is wrong."
A nice reminder of the critical design failure of dns - putting the domains from leaf to root (reverse of file-systems) will be a security and usability problem for decades.
Yes. Parent commenter phrased it as one or the other. The choice of fusion given that restriction is even stranger.
Isn't that a Title VII / EEOC violation? Woman-only gyms - like sex-segregated toilet facilities - operate "because of a compelling and overriding privacy issue". This can extend to woman-only requirements for employees at such businesses, since some states have made an exception for health and wellness centers.

These exceptions don't apply to taxis, that I can tell. For example, in LivingWell (North), Inc. v. Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (1992), the courts defined a three-part test:

> A business must establish a factual basis for believing that not excluding members of one sex would undermine its business operation; that its customers’ privacy interests are entitled to protection under the law; and that no reasonable alternative exists to protect the customers’ privacy interests.

Taxis don't have a privacy interest. Plus, are there really no other reasonable alternatives?

(See http://download.ihrsa.org/gr/womenonly.pdf for some of the information about the the law allows sex-segregated gyms.)
I get the binding a value inside an if statement.

if (i=3*someFunctionResult()) { ... blah using i ... }

makes perfect sense to me. The "let" seems unnecessary and, for lack of a better term, unpoetic.

Aside from which, the use of let to define a constant in the middle of an if statement is about as wrong as you can get, in my opinion.

Define your constants at the top or in another file, FFs.
Ask HN: As a developer how do you want to be hired?
As a Front End Developer, I find myself and my fellow workmates almost on a daily basis complaining about recruiters either spamming us with jobs unrelated to what we do, or calling for a "catch-up" and to find out the names of our managers... Why do we put up with them? Surely as developers we can change the way we get hired.

Maybe something similar to Tinder where employers browse and make job offers direct to us? What are your thoughts?
It seems to me like the breach may still be ongoing/the vulnerability may still exist. In the announcement, they use "have been" as in its actively occurring. Additionally, in the press release (http://ir.homedepot.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=63646&p=irol-newsArt...), they don't indicate that the breach has stopped; they only say they have taken aggressive action.

It seems unlikely that the attack would continue since the attackers have lost their cover, but the wording is a bit strange.
No, professionals should not strive for "balance". They should strive for reason based on evidence. And when the evidence changes, their conclusions should change accordingly.

If some people say the Earth is flat and others say it's round, I don't want my geologist to say, "opinions differ on the shape of the planet".

Many influential people claimed that easy money after the 2008 collapse would cause massive devaluation of the dollar and sky high inflation and interest rates.

Krugman's models and historical evidence suggested that, contrary to popular opinion, inflation and interest rates would actually stay very low for many years, and that the dollar would maintain its value.

Six years later, the results are in. Look at the evidence and challenge your model, or you're just spouting baseless ideology.

If you'd invested with Krugman, the guy with a model who showed his work, you'd have made a lot of money. If you'd invested with the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and the others who have an ideology without a model, you'd have lost a lot of money.

Go with the evidence.
Just because it's important doesn't mean Dawkins does anything useful for it.
Not if the webmail implementation passes-on your IP, which it should if you believe Spam is a bigger issue than email sender privacy.

Basically, if a webmail service doesn't pass along your IP, there would be no way for recipient networks to ever block a flood of unwanted email because they could never blacklist, say, yahoo.com.

I read something about this lately... maybe from Paul Buchheit?
Awesome! We are just doing up a blog post now for http://represent.io who now supports JSON Resume as an export type.

Let me know if and when you do import/export support and we will do a blog post also and list you on the homepage.
> A package management system that you don't have to invoke lucifer to use would also help (leiningen for CL)

What do you think are the biggest problems with ASDF?

> A common threading model that makes sense would also be nice.

Which memory model should this threading system guarantee? Which concurrency primitives? How is this going to be supported on all the different platforms the different CL implementations are available for? What do you think are the biggest problems with bordeaux-threads?

> CLISP, SBCL, CMU-CL, GCL, ECL, ABCL, MKCL, MCL, Movitz, OpenMCL, CLiCC, Kyoto, CCL, Jatha, ThinLisp, UABCL, WCL, XCL

CLiCC and ThinLisp are deployment tools and not full-blown implementations. Neither of them have been actively developed in the last decade (I was the last person to touch ThinLisp about 8(?) years ago). WCL is a shared library from the 90s. Kyoto, GCL, ECL, MKCL are forks/descendants of the same implementation (in that chronological order). Corman Common Lisp hasn't been developed in years.

> good Lisp hackers seem more interested in writing yet another Common Lisp than extending the capabilities of existing ones.

If you actually look, the two sets of people (Lisp library/application hackers and Lisp implementation maintainers) are pretty distinct. If someone wants to make another Common Lisp implementation, that doesn't take resources away from Common Lisp libraries, and it doesn't fracture the community (that's why standards are a good thing). It would be great to have better array libraries and package managers and thread libraries. Saying that having less Common Lisp implementations will make those things happen is a false dichotomy.
"Oh, you're a software engineer. That means you can you fix my computer, right?" -> Frowning ensues
The closest modern equivalent to Javelin is Quantrix Modeler, although it doesn't seem to have the breadth of functionality that Javelin did.
Thanks for letting me know! I'm investigating this one along with a few others everyone has found (: I'll touch base with you here or via email soon.
> But if you have a billion dollars of gold in your basement, you should be very, very paranoid.

At close to 25 tonnes, and ~1.3m³, I'd like to see the engineering behind such a heist
I translated the pingpong example to use events instead of CSP. https://gist.github.com/aynik/94c9f3d01139986d2b91
> Canada's status as a different country has always made relations between Canada and the U.S. substantially different than between Scotland and the U.K

That is literally the point of Krugman's article, not a reason to dismiss it.

To spell it out for you, the comparison is that an independent Scotland would have a relationship to the UK analagous to that between Canada and the US, a small northern country bordering an economically dominant southern one that is its major trading partner, and with which it has close cultural ties.

The Quebec tangent you go off on makes no sense, since the situation there is colored by a long history of struggle along religious and lingustic lines that has no parallel in the Scotland/England relationship.
It used to work wonderfully in the UK each year, around August or September, that the registration letter would change. Telephone a bunch of dealerships (in the days prior to email) and tell them you wanted to buy a very specific make and model and the current year which only has a week or two left before the registration letter increments. I don't know if it still works because I haven't owned a car in the UK in over 20 years.

But every car dealership in ever country has sales quotas to meet. You just have to find out when they are.
I don't see a CEO or even vp being given two days to decide. I think senior programmers have earned at least a little professional courtesy, no?
Can someone turn this into English? I think it's missing a verb?

> Currently, it is not permitted by the CAB Forum Baseline Requirements to revocation pointers out of a cert, ever.
That would be great.
Since you're asking, here are my pipedreams:

- interviews where I can dress up in a t-shirt and jeans

- max 3 interviews, none of this 9 interviews stuff

- simple questions to confirm my experience but not to assess whether I'm suitable for Mensa
do you have a portfolio?

Most startups need stuff to get done quickly and fresh grads are either in need of months of training or ( a small minority) are self starters who want to make their own companies.

Startups usually hire friends/through connections. so until you establish a reputation it's going to be hard to enter.
The original buttcoiners seem to have moved on to http://reddit.com/r/buttcoin

The buttcoiners seem to make light of the BFL purchase, since in their mind, the former owner has done something that many Bitcoin investors have not - made a profit off of Bitcoin.
If you want to geek out on the politics of Scottish independence, Charlie Stross has just the thing.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/09/the-refe...
I find it interesting to argue this referendum in comparison with the Province of Quebec (disclaimer: I'm from Quebec). Forget Canada vs Scots, both are different.
I've learn two things about referendum:
1. It gets emotional. It's ike the atom bomb of politic. What? You disagree and you'll get out of the country!? People behave differently. So... This article from the nyt looks like a scarecrow in support of a No vote. Scots do not care about our housing bubble caused by artificial low interest rates.
2. A referendum is not "unusual" or about "substantial funding". It is history in the making. Why the Scots will make a referendum, is not about federal money.
I believe in federalism, for the motives expressed by Milton Friedman. His way is to give more power to the states, and more to the cities.
A strong big spending federal gov is not ideal. Thanks housing bubble!
I don't think you get my point.
This has been standard practice since the dawn of SMTP.
Compiling to Javascript is nothing short of a mental illness. The perversions that the terrible design of the web has driven people to are simply breathtaking...
I would love to have a linkedin that is owned by the users.
https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/509145414008725504

Peter Todd
‏ @petertoddbtc

"Interesting, got another forwarded email from "satoshi", from 2011 - indicates this was a hijacked account, not expired and re-registered."

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Going to grab some popcorn, this might get pretty entertaining...
What do you mean by terminate? I know it means end but not getting the just of what you mean
Not saying that's untrue, but when you think of it, it's pretty amazing that card companies can legally do this. Testament to the efficacy of K Street I suppose.
You forgot to mention its also home to Strangeloop, one of the best developer conferences I've ever attended: https://thestrangeloop.com/

Full disclosure: I'm hosting a workshop at Strangeloop this year.
Unless you're Verizon, who is still working on deploying IPv6.

http://www.verizon.com/Support/Residential/Internet/HighSpee...
I don't use Rap Genius often, so I almost missed sama's responses.

Be sure to click on the annotations to see them.
the nine interviews are there to filter you out before you hit the actual decision maker.
Yes, so I think that a resume builder that can't export to PDF or DOCX isn't going to last long for this exact reason. That's why I added and opened up the DOCX exporter even though it's still missing a lot of functionality. My hope is that something is better than nothing and a big goal of mine is to improve DOCX exporting over the next month.

I'm not too knowledgeable on the DOC format other than it's a binary format and it's much harder to export to (AFAIK Google Docs can't even export to DOC).

The best workaround I can offer is to export to DOCX, open in Microsoft Word, then save as a DOC. If the DOCX exporting is misbehaving, sit tight, it'll improve slowly but surely.
Ask HN: My employer doesn't want to pay me
Hi HN,

I'm UK based dev. My employer is avoiding me. I'm sure he/she doesn't want to pay me. What can I do?

- I have signed contract but without a witness. Is it still valid to go to county court?

- I have the access to the server so I'm going to take down the website (I can do other suff as well)

- I'll use my SEO skill so the first result on Google will be "XXX is someone cannot be trusted"

- I have a evidence that he/she was acting in a conflict of interest. I'm gonna email board members and investor.

What would you do and in which order?
Does this same danger also apply to bitcoin exchanges?

Are they heavily guarded?

Just wondering...
Have you considered using Ubuntu MAAS?
Ha ha, Yu the Great is a legend!

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

At the bottom it says there are English subtitles and the course materials are all in English.
What are your skills? Areas of interest? Whatever they are, there is a meetup group in the Bay Area that would be a great place to get started.
> straight-facedly suggest that oil is a curse, because of price volatility, rather than the blessing every other country considers it to be?

Easy. the price volatility is a red herring. The real curse is that the UK already rode the peak of production, but the average of all North Sea fields is now in terminal decline.

In particular, you will spend more and more money (currently about 8bn OPEX/yr and growing [0]) but only get a declining production: lately about -5% less oil/yr [1]). There are still many billions to be made, but it won't fuel _growth_ in Scotland. (the link you provided explains how the UK already took that opportunity)

[0] http://euanmearns.com/uk-north-sea-oil-production-decline/

[1] http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...
yep, I was thinking the same thing. While I've never used paypal at home depot, I wonder what the fallout from that would be.

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ent-instore-payments
while I don't condone blind commenting like you described, I have encountered threads with titles such that they conveyed the entire article accurately enough to comment on from just the title alone, so I can understand that with certain topics.
At no point did I touch on morality or ethics. I do not know why you think that I did so.

> I agree with you that experimentation is futile in the absence of ethics.

I do not agree with that.

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Dictionary.reference.com:

> useful: being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect

> good: having admirable, pleasing, superior, or positive qualities; not negative, bad or mediocre

I urge you to reevaluate your understanding of the words "good" and "useful". Don't you understand that I'm not talking about morality?
Jetbrains appears to be making some effort to "modularize" the IntelliJ platform. I'm not sure exactly what that entails, but they've at least gotten far enough such that they are building a web-based tool for code browsing and more [1], so it appears they've made some effort to decouple the Swing GUI from their underlying platform. I'm not sure how much of this can be seen in the open source IntelliJ Community Edition or where it stands, but maybe something similar to NRefactory (what Omnisharp uses for C# support) can be achieved.

BTW I've recently tried omnisharp-emacs, but found dealing with larger C# source files was way too slow to be useful. But it's pretty great to be able to use Emacs for C# and get useful code completion, so I'll be continuing to make efforts to make this work.

[1] http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/09/18/upsource-a-platfor...
I can see why Snowden is heroic for alerting the American people to the unconstitutional acts of their government, but I fail to see how other countries are owed such consideration. In particular, the idea that Snowden could trade information on foreign intelligence operations for asylum is puzzling.
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Either: speak to a lawyer, or go to county court (if it's a small amount; it sounds like a county court is something like the small claims court where I live).

Don't do anything retaliatory or hostile until you've exhausted your legal options, because it will either leave you liable for damages, or harm your case, or both.
You're right it's a poor way to change someone's mind, and certainly doesn't foster inclusion, but what of people who are still making up their mind? Mainly, I'm talking about young people who have been raised in a mostly religious context, but haven't gone head-over-heels yet.

It might be that challenging superstition in the most brutal way possible (outside of physical violence, that is), serves to promote more rational beliefs among this group.
Or just use an IRC bouncer and connect any IRC client to it at any time, and get a lot more features than what Weechat offers. ;)
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That's a silly position to take. It works quite well in practice, and is completely competitive with a "designed" VM bytecode.
No kidding. Until now, I'd have been hard-pressed to imagine any sentence that started with "I got into an argument with the guy at the Home Depot paint counter", but didn't end with "because my paint color didn't match".
I use Genius almost exclusively for its rap annotations, so reading news on this platform felt strange to me. While I can definitely see its merits for lyrics/poetry, I'm not sure how much I like it in this context. I think that expository/news articles should be written well-enough that annotations (other than hyperlinks, I guess) are unnecessary.
> Hipchat:

> 1) Paste image

Then the history if filled with stupid crap and you can't find any useful stuff in it. Stupid text can be easier to jump over, images spanning the whole page can be more annoying.
Surely Edwin Armstrong bears even greater responsibility in light of his invention of the superheterodyne receiver!
Yeah, I never understood why a business would need more than 2 interviews tops to decide if you are suitable. Work portfolio would have been checked out before first interview and then would just be personality fit/meet team after that.
If you take any of these actions (specially the "other stuff") you'll open yourself to criminal and civil prosecution including damages, defamation and cyber crimes. You need legal assistance. Maybe you can start here: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/work_e/work_rights_at_..., http://www.lawontheweb.co.uk/employment_law
Ask HN: Government-Run Internet?
Anyone have examples/a list of ISPs that are run or owned by local governments or municipalities? Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Scots don't want to be dragged into America's next war. That's probably reason enough.
Ah, that's why the gmail page looked dated. Still interesting. It's obvious in hindsight but I have never thought of it before.
I'm not sure how one is even supposed to know that Sam was the one writing the annotations. Is there even a way to see who wrote them?
Not really; I was thinking about taking all those Awesome Features IRC Doesn't Have and actually implementing them in various popular IRC clients, web-based or not, in order to make IRC a viable alternative to HipChat, et al. for power users.