skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be frank. I don't need you. So if I see you being mugged/raped/beaten, should I just go on my merry way or should I help you?

Saying "I don't need animals so fuck them" is not a great attitude to have.

Not to mention that we do need plants/trees, and we'd find it difficult to keep them going without the biospheres that they survive in.
Understanding app deployment made me a better designer
Hmm... whenever I see this [articles about dark matter or dark energy] nowadays I think back to something Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson said on the subject along the lines of "We're calling it Dark Matter or Dark Energy because can we measure it (or rather the fact that we're missing a huge chunk of it), but that doesn't mean it's 'dark' or even 'matter' or even one single thing."

It's cool to hear about breakthroughs on the subject but as someone else said, at this point this article feels more like link-bait than anything concrete.

Maybe it's just some folks who are incredibly stoked wanting to share before they have their ducks-in-row. So I'm not trying to say it's intentional.

I'm just hungry for new information, and excited about it, so when it's not all there I'm disappointed. Nerd problems, haha.
More evidence of Facebook business page advertising ineffectiveness
Yes, definitely.

But not online (I can put you in touch with someone who is much more directly involved). The chances of retaliation are just too large.
Details of DRUPAL_SA_CORE_2014_003 Deny of Service
Best example for this is Tomb Raider: The start of it was so awesome, a breath of fresh air showing that games can be w/o killing hundreds of people. Unfortunately ~2 hours in the game that got lost.

Oh but the people complained about the bad story-telling then, go figure...
You are going to kick sand in my face for being a nerd now.
Or a high fantasy game that has non-white male characters. Dragons and magic and throwing out all of science are OK, but you heaven help you if you aren't (what some think of as) historially accurate.
Two or three of the tanks in the Littlefield auction had functional main guns. You needed a special ATF license for "destructive devices"(?) to take delivery. Getting said license is probably non-trivial, but very much possible for law abiding citizens.
codecombat went opensource and this accelerated the growth. http://blog.codecombat.com/uid/137237
> Is racism/sexism really that much worse from torture and murder that it's ok to use the later for storytelling, but the former always brings an outcry from the community?

The issue is, well, the racism/sexism is usually not important to the story. The story could usually be told just as easily without the isms.
I could have written something similar when I was in my late 20s.

My teenage years were filled with depression. My circle of friends consisted of a handful of people I knew from IRC. My 20s consisted of a string of failed business ventures. I was living at home. I had almost nothing in my bank account. I had very few friends and I would inevitably sabotage every friendship I had. I was overweight. I didn't have a girlfriend and had never even experienced a kiss. I lost a parent and then lost a step parent. I felt like the supposedly best years of my life were slipping through my fingers.

After being rejected by a girl I met online because of my weight/appearance, I decided that getting in shape would help. Eventually I was able to lose weight and I met a girl after attending a rare social event. I thought she was perfect and we hit it off but after our first date she rejected me in a very harsh way. I was devastated and decided to end my life.

I'll spare the details but I spent considerable time researching. I purchased the instrument of my demise. I wrote letters to the few people who I thought would care apologizing for my shortcomings.

Before I took what I believed would be the solution to my pain I took all of the money I had from a gig and went on a solo trip overseas. The first night I cried myself to sleep. I literally walked everywhere until the heels of my feet bled. I talked to some people I met and had a wonderful experience that reminded me good can enter your life in the most unexpected of ways and at unanticipated times. But most of my travels were in my mind.

My pain didn't end when I came back but I didn't end my life. Today I am in much better financial shape but I don't feel I have lived up to my potential and I'm still very much a procrastinator. I still don't have many friends. I have a girlfriend although anyone in a relationship can tell you they look easier than they are. There are days when I feel lost or like an impostor. I still have more regrets than I can count. I am currently mourning the loss a pet who I considered one of my best friends.

You're not silly or pathetic. I don't know what the purpose of life is either. Life is absurd and undeniably impermanent. I don't have any advice to give but if I could suggest one thing, it's that absurd, impermanent things aren't inherently worthless and incapable of providing happiness. "Nothing matters anyway" is as much an invitation to experiment with life and live it without worry or expectation as it is to give up on it.
This is true, and is a good counterexample to my point since I do use these on an everyday basis.
Reagan did slash fusion funding in 1986. This included cancelling a $372 million reactor the day they finished building it.

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

Of course the Clinton administration cancelled the Integral Fast Reactor when it was a year or two away from finishing up a development project of thirty years, so there are complaints on both sides.
> Btw, I would completely disagree that the sysadmin side is or was behind Debian. FreeBSD is way easier to sysadmin than most Linux, even without pkg.

This may be true now but it certainly wasn't the case in the early 2000s. When we switched, our number of systems went up by an order of magnitude (100s) but the amount of sysadmin time required actually went down. Consistent package management and debconf were most of the reason.
"Oh sh*t we should have gotten in at 3"? :-)
"evim" (easy Vim) is normally installed wherever vim is, and opens in insert mode by default.
The Tools That Helped One Man Skip the Daily Staff Meeting
If the infrastructure that we have collapses there will be mass starvation. Probably more so in 1st world countries than in places where people are basically hand-to-mouth.
Awesome, I'll have to sign up.

Just as a side note, here are a few other interesting podcasts that may not fall into this category.

Intelligence Squared (Debates) - https://soundcloud.com/intelligence2/

Joe Rogan Experience - http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/

StarTalk Radio (Neil DeGrasse Tyson) - https://soundcloud.com/startalk/

Hardcore History (&) Common Sense w/ Dan Carlin - http://www.dancarlin.com/

Rabiolab - http://www.radiolab.org/

Talk Nerdy (Cara Santa Maria) - http://carasantamaria.com/podcast/

The Tim Ferriss Show - http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/

Anarchast - http://anarchast.com/
TL;DR: A previously trusted/paired computer can read data on an iPhone. The pairing code can by copied to other computers (via restoring from backup etc).

So use full-disk encryption on your computer and backups as well.
Here's what the English "National Institute for Health and Care Excellence" say: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG90
I rewrote my LESS using fat's guide to Medium's CSS. Here are my thoughts
The weight of the vehicle would likely destroy the road and any pipes underneath it. You would have to find something light with good weight distribution. Maybe a wheeled APC or armored recon vehicle?
Accounts created just to promote a story usually get banned here.
The first part of your sentence makes it sound like you strongly disagree with my understanding. Can you elaborate?

My point wasn't that you can turn stock into cash, but that you can turn stock into some of the same things that large amounts of cash might be used for -- acquisitions.
That was in response to: "It is a huge improvement. Nobody can impersonate the bank without the bank's cooperation."

And that is not true. The alternative is not to let other organizations impersonate you without your cooperation. That is very clear from the article. Storing plaintext keys with Cloudflare was never on the table. That's not why they built it.

There reasons to why Cloudflare built their own, probably good ones because Cloudflare employs some talented people, and I would think they have to do with the scale Cloudflare operates at.

Network attached HSMs are off the shelf devices. If you've worked with PKI, you've seen them. And that is what they would have went with if they hadn't built this. If it was right or wrong to go with a home-grown HSM instead of an off the shelf one is not something I could possibly know -- but I know it's not a "huge improvement in security" to build your own. The fact that is offers comparable security is probably why the bank chose it.

If there is one thing to take away from the article, it should be: Don't invent your own security protocols. Buy off the shelf devices. If you really need to build your own, this is how.
The method for extracting data requires access to the phone and the user's laptop. When someone has physical access to a device, the vast majority of security goes out of the window (sans disk encryption).

This is very different from remote monitoring of a user's data in Apple's data center.

Obviously, privacy needs to be addressed in the larger political arena, however Apple's moves here should be applauded.
Ask HN: How do I input custom text to ID3 and MP3 Encoding tags in an MP3?
So I was looking at how header frames work in MP3s and wanted to see if there was anyway to input custom text into the Encoding With tag and the ID3 tag? I have a couple of ideas, but was curious if any of you knew how to do it effciently. Thanks!
Do you have any actual examples of this? I have never played a fantasy game where all the characters were white males and have never heard any complaints about that. Shit, I don't think I have played a high fantasy game where all the characters were human.
Open src experiment to build a chrome ext for more transparent browsing in 2 wks
> It's silly how much goes into [political] correctness in games nowadays.

This ain't a "political correctness" problem. Political correctness is probably not even what you think it is. Political correctness is about, for example, being able to say in your own mind "Watermelon-Eaters" (?) while speaking outwardly about "African American"s. It's that case of the anchorperson who says "N-Word" and enjoys that the audience goes "Nigger" in their minds. It's about the guy who thinks "I'd rape you if I wouldn't get caught" and speaks "Young Lady" with a polite smile to the person in the next cubicle. Or about the one who speaks of "having fun creating and playing a game" but who actually is mentally masturbating to his impossibly (em)bodied ideal woman.

This is about representation. Lack of representation silences population segments and educates them in the false premises of the status quo as if they were real (into self-hatred). Mis-representation enables others to discriminate against these segments and remain in peace with the violence they inflict upon their others. Reclaiming one's representation is an important step in consciousness raising efforts because you get to learn that you do not need to, nor should, become this absurd representation that you are served in almost every possible venue as the ideal, the idealized, the desirable. Then, this is about construction --the "normal" culture's efforts to produce and ever reproduce its own deranged fantasies and imageries that serve to maintain said status quo.

Furthermore, most critical thinkers and media analysts who know what they are doing also already know that, in a [insert discrimination type here] culture, the production of non-discriminatory material is impossible. It ain't silly to keep thinking critically and having fun de- and re-constructing imageries to show the underlying fuck-ups. Regardless of who produces said cultural product and what excuses they use to legitimize their work (or, whatever else they do for free advertisement).
For those of you that aren't familiar, OWASP (the Open Web Application Security Project) is a great resource for security neophytes. When my team is on application security engagements, we'll frequently introduce our clients to the OWASP cheat sheets for various different areas.

For developers, it can be a great resource -- although I'm not sure how much stock I'd put into this "testing guide."

Where OWASP really shines seems to be coverage (both detection and prevention) of the most common web application flaws. Given that their claim-to-fame is the "top ten" web application threats, this makes sense. Here's an example of what I'm talking about: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(...

For people who are unfamiliar with different classes of web app vulnerabilities -- especially if they are developing an application themselves -- this can be an excellent resource.
My Little Operations: DevOps Is Magic
Who are your current users? If they are from a certain industry (real estate maybe) then try to target them and monetize off of that market.
I don't see why not? I can easily see the appeal in creating slides in as minimal a format as Markdown. And it has a sort of geek cachet to it, depending on the audience. The only real downside I see is that you can't easily use visual aides such as graphs.
I'd love to get HN's thoughts on our post about fixed-priced projects. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
> traditional taxi pricing seems expensive but is actually pretty fair once you account for costs and a decent wage.

This isn't true in some cities, such as Boston, where weird politics have driven the cost of a medallions, required to operate a taxi, up to ridiculous levels (The Boston Globe did an excellent article series on this http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/30/spotlight/9eVWW7..., there are a lot of factors that go into cab fares, and some of them genuinely are stupid and antiquated.
> Is software going to eat your job if you are a jr. developer?

I hope so. There are bigger and more interesting problems to move on to.

I'm sure the capacity for more complex and more capable software systems is limitless.
> we were solving the important problem!

Can you elaborate please? What exactly was the important problem? Was the important problem turning huge codebases into trivial problems?
Show HN: GitHub trash, Quickly remove your GitHub repo
That's interesting. Could you say something more about OO being about naming everything?
"But before long more than a hundred decorated omnibuses were crowding the streets of the city, with names painted on the sides, from George Washington to Lady Washington to Benjamin Franklin. They were popular. And they caused complete chaos. For the individual owners of the omnibuses, nothing mattered more than the paying passenger. Drivers whipped their horses repeatedly to speed them past a competitor to the next potential fare, even if it meant a harrowing few seconds for those already on board. Grazing a lamppost to cut a corner or to cut in front of a rival was fair game, and pedestrians not paying attention could get maimed by a cornering horse or the trailing carriage."
This sounds exactly like the present situation with dollar vans on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.
As a longtime user of Ruby, improving performance is by far the primary thing I want out of the MRI team. Erlang-style pattern matching would be nice but I can't say I'm hurting for its absence.

One of the topics that's been discussed for a long time is breaking the standard library into gems (installed by default), so they can be developed and improved separately from the core language. That's probably the #2 priority for me.

One of Ruby's strengths (and sometimes one of its weaknesses, too) is that it has a fairly decentralized ecosystem. The standard library is small and has had few additions since Rubygems was added to the core distribution. Frankly, it could stand to have more taken out of it.

Ruby is already a pretty big language (in terms of core features and syntactic complexity); I think the core team is well-advised to exercise caution in adding new features.
I looked at the PHP documentation and realized that it was basically just a forum with a stickied thread per API. And honestly, that seems to work.
Larry Ellison's Oracle Started as a CIA Project
There's also http://github.com/arnemart/slid.js (disclosure: I wrote this)

No fancy transitions, but does not need ncurses and supports syntax highlighting and images.
Yeah, Docker seems to be more popular than dotCloud ever was, but do we actually know how the pivot affected their finances?
Professor Jay Ritter of the University of Florida is a subject matter expert in this area:

http://bear.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/ipodata.htm
Wayland and Weston 1.6.0 released
Microsoft didn't buy Nokia brand, it only licensed it. Nokia still manages the brand. Agreement forbids Nokia from manufacturing or selling mobile phones until 2016. Same applies for licensing the Nokia brand for other phone makers.

ps. Microsoft didn't by Nokia Research or the patents. It's possible that Nokia enters into the consumer markets with their own products.
I think the FreeBSD devs have done a cracking job with pkg and I did comment about how it's a new package manager to give context that it's likely to be refined and improved upon with time.

All I was just trying to give a balanced opinion but it seems you can't post anything on here these days without someone finding criticism. {sigh}
The US RAF bases where little piece of America in the UK vehicles drove on the right.
Iranians Sentenced to Six Months, 91 Lashes for Dancing to “Happy”
This is incredibly stupid just for using the term "hipster"

--interest
I clicked the button about 24 hours ago, and just got my photos now.

It's slow, but it works.
Would you demand the same of other art forms? We don't tell artists what to paint. If something is offensive it's deemed 'powerful' for the emotions it's capable of invoking. If we hate it we move on and don't look at that painting. We all have the right to an opinion about art but we are not entitled to forcing our opinions on those who create it.
"Without any jail time, what's the disincentive?"

The SEC doesn't have the authority to file criminal charges they can only pursue things themselves in civil court.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-so-few-securi...
Reported income is not comparable to effort or economic activity.

The Slate article states that when income tax rate increases, the rich report less income, by fudging their taxes. It says nothing about rich people expending less effort.
github.com is mostly open source.
The Key Differences Between Alibaba and Amazon in One Chart
Well, the message gives specific examples of the kinds of code that might need to be modified: "debuggers,
macroexpanders and code-walkers".
You sort of have to see it to believe it. The technology is super impressive; a lot of interesting technical challenges to overcome especially when working over 4G networks.
Sure, but Sun (now Oracle) could have chosen just to support Java.

So it was a good decision to give support to C and C++ developers as well.
Evaluating Bitcoin as a Currency
Maybe that was done on purpose?
He's completely correct, though. Most screen-oriented programs, in power and flexibility, are closer to pull-down menus with predefined commands than to proper command lines. ncurses is "GUI without the G", not "CLI".

If you're calling a curses program "command line" just because its physical appearance is close to a shell in a terminal... that's like calling a Gtk application a Windows app.

If you're calling a curses program command line because you don't know the difference, the clue is in the name: command-driven and line-oriented - command line. As opposed to keyboard-driven and screen-oriented.

Among other disadvantages, screen-oriented things have this built-in model of forced interaction.

The technical advantages of being CLI don't matter to a powerpoint, but it's still incorrect call it as such.
Summary: You piss someone in power off, and you're subject to a SWAT raid for one reason or another
Those 'quick n dirty scripts' will work for you (and work well) but when others need to rely on them it gets messy. At my company we have 50 developers and everyone relies on "Jeff's script". No one really touches it because no one really gets it and Jeff might move across the country soon. :(
The article's essential claim is that the workers do not own the means of production in any meaningful sense, despite the careful legal fictions to the contrary.

The claim is that Uber et al have developed a way to own the upsides (aka positive cash flows) associated with the means of production, while externalizing the downsides (repair bills, depreciation, insurance, bodily harm from accidents, etc) onto the workers. And even in a strictly limited literal sense, the cars are bought on credit, so the bank owns them.
Isn't Ruby scripts that call Makefiles exactly how Homebrew works on the Mac? :-D
Patent troll gives up, can’t defend “matchmaking” patent under new law
Solar City and Tesla Hatch a Plan to Lower the Cost of Solar Power
It's silly, because there's a difference between portraying something and endorsing it.

Yet it seems there is a shocking number of people out there today who cannot make that difference.
Speaking of the sharing economy, why isn't AirBnB setting price and using surge pricing?
It's not just labour conditions that improved. All conditions improved. Houses are nicer, food is plentiful, streets are cleaner....

You could say that it was due to new legislation in those areas but it could as well be that we simply became richer and richer people buy various comforts.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc and all that.
It was painful for a few days but after that I can't imagine going back to , especially since that is actually a useful default binding.
IMO, immigration has very little to do with the problem, and is more of a political whip.

We as a country are simply eroding our own need for (or at least focus on) unskilled labor. In fact, we're eroding "almost" all of our labor, unskilled, skilled, artistic, etc... Engineers, software devs/coders, and machinists are some of the only ones that have really escaped the purge, and even they're being eaten by foreign labor and technology. By its nature, entrepreneurs who want to make money try to find areas of the market where there is a cost/supply, productivity, or other form of inefficiency, and then fix it.

And they're doing a good job.

Whole ranges of American labor have been automated, crowd-sourced, or offshored right out of existence in the US (and world). See this chart by the MIT Tech Review that talks about it. [1] In particular, note the effect of changes in the service industries, such as Uber, which already make up a ridiculously large portion of our economy. Purely speculation, but I'm generally on the side of folks that think "first world problems" is very shortly going to represent having tons of productivity and no actual jobs.

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/d...
Nokia replaced some Motif applications by Netbeans based ones in some of their products for network operators.
I really didn't try Clojure on Vim, at the time Emacs seemed unambiguously like the authoritative option and it did serve as an excuse for me to jump into Emacs. For Clojure though, I find that Paredit tremendously reduces my need of vim motions. But evil-mode is great for all my prose editing needs (along with org-mode) and I do find it more robust than Vim at all the fundamental vi functionality.