skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that Germany is a close ally to the US. It's one thing to spy on your ally's leaders to make sure you know what they are up to, but it's another to engage in mass surveillance of their civilian population. The US is doing to friend and foe alike what they have publicly shamed China over.

Spying on citizens of another nation is an act of aggression because it undermines the sovereignty of that nation. If you're outraged to find out the NSA is spying on US citizens, why wouldn't you be outraged to find out the US closest allies (say, Japan, the UK, France, Germany or Canada) are spying on US citizens?

Why should it be acceptable for them to do what would be unacceptable if your own elected representatives did it to you? But undermining the sovereignty of other nations seems to be SOP these days. See US drone strikes in Pakistan or the Russian not-quite-official involvement in the Ukraine.

It's not that what the NSA has been doing is orders of magnitude worse (though some would argue it is), it's the sum of all these things the US has been doing while the presidents and media are continuously cheering for Team America as the One True Beacon of Freedom and Democracy.

Europeans (and Germans in particular) have been uneasy about US politics and how they clash with the country's public image at least since the days after 9/11 (I remember thinking "oh crap, the US will go to war with someone over this") and this is just another drop in the bucket. I guess you react to ultra-nationalism differently if you a have strongly engrained cultural memories of what it's like to be a nation that is "superior" to everyone.
But the point of the article was, that there is some reasonable evidence that the Great Filter is in our past, so there is no particular need to postulate a necessity of more Filters into out future. Sure there can be more in the future, but they are not needed to explain the Fermi Paradox.
this sounds like it could be histerical. i wish we had video.
I would imagine there is corruption involved. They get rid of these as "unfit" so they can turn around and buy some more from their "friends" that just happen to build these.
Well I knew the border hack for the <select> would pop up at some point for some reason. I'll fix it ASAP.
lol what? using medium to sale a product. I was expecting some great insight on why, but it quickly turned into a pitch and then an action to sell.
Yup, I mainly wanted to stress that there options for non-funded startups with little budget. We got lots of positive feedback on the video and I'm sure it did its job of explaining the app to the viewers.
That wasn't a dream. As we move closer to the CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN configuration, natural Sensitives will find themselves drawn to installations with high levels of occult activity.

Of course, this represents a national security threat, so we've determined your location using a traceroute-on-steroids that Bob whipped up for us. The Plumbers are en route. If you have any especially nice rugs that you'd like to bequeath to a family member or friend, please make sure you're not standing on them about 3 minutes from now.
Anyone under 20?
Just wondering if there were few young hackers here.
Just ignore if you're not happy answering, but do you regret asking for that specific sum or are you content that it was the right amount to go for?
Technically it isn't REST.

However what makes the most sense for a RPC style call is a POST.
Starting out with Hydroponics
The video title on youtube is "Formula E Car - Test Debut", which is good too.
Great idea. Love to run it, but... crash and burn:

~/Library/Safari/LastSession.plist
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "osxauditor.py", line 1702, in <module>
Main()
File "osxauditor.py", line 1663, in Main
ParseBrowsers()
File "osxauditor.py", line 808, in ParseBrowsers
ParseSafari()
File "osxauditor.py", line 745, in ParseSafari
ParseSafariProfile(User, UserSafariProfilePath)
File "osxauditor.py", line 717, in ParseSafariProfile
LastSession = LastSessionPlist["SessionWindows"][0]["TabStates"][0]
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC/objc/_convenience.py", line 451, in __getitem__objectAtIndex_
return container_unwrap(self.objectAtIndex_(idx), RuntimeError)
IndexError: NSRangeException - -[__NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)
Those cold war agreements always came with one important constraint: That the US would not use those facilities on German ground to spy on Germany.
> At least then people would think twice before ordering a $10 corn-syrup soda vs a $2 no-sugar one.

That's just it, I don't like the idea of bullying people into healthy eating. I don't want to end up in a future where it's illegal to consume more than 2000 calories in a day. Fortunately people don't seem to like this idea given the reception of the large soda ban in NYC.
TLDR: I received a single traffic spike for a game I just released and looking to make a quick buck, take everything and make me an offer before traffic goes away.

There are so many things wrong with that blog post.
That sounds like a sure fire way to get more stress and possibly lose the whole thing.
Yeah. Considering locations, traveling, hours of preparation and editing, $50k - $75k is reasonable if you want beautiful ad.
Modern chemical analysis is exquisitely sensitive.

People take medication and excrete some of it.

Sensible water use, especially in drought areas, means that water is reused - the water you drink has gone through someone else before you.

BBC Radio Four has a programme about this: "Urine Trouble: what's in our water?"

http://bbc.co.uk/news/health-29108330

Other uses for very-sensitive analysis of waste water include real time drug sampling. We can tell that it's the weekend by the amounts of MDMA and cocaine (metabolites?) in the water; where heroin doesn't show weekend spikes. This can be used at festivals to see if "legal highs" are actually used and in what kind of quantities.

The programme is better than this page makes it out to be.
It was interesting to see that Uber is providing financial support for police militarization:

https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/507978633894313985

Shane Bauer's full coverage of the "Urban Shield" police convention in Oakland was great:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/09/video-highlights-oak...
https://storify.com/smbauer1/urban-shield-swat-convention-in...
I won't discount that therapeutic doses may have such side-effects, but the question is whether that is relevant to the present discussion. I claim that the side effect of being docile would not occur at a dosage of 100 times smaller than therapeutic doses. Maybe there is such a thing as a "1/100th as docile" effect, but it doesn't always make sense to extrapolate effects linearly; it can also be that the effect just isn't there. The way I arrive at that intuition is by making an analogy with water: you can drown in a bathtub of water, but no person can drown in a droplet of water.

You call it "simple reasoning" to make your inference about microdosing, but actually we have no idea how lithium even affects the brain / mind, so it's not possible to arrive at the conclusion by reason. It would have to come from evidence from controlled studies, and I believe these indicate that side-effects are restricted to high doses.

Also, "practically no chance of suicide" -- you can't be serious about that; no drug can guarantee or even come close to that.

You already have salt with and without iodine, so no, wouldn't be difficult to avoid. Whether you should call it "medication" is debatable; giving someone vitamin C is not necessarily medication, it can be a food supplement. The same could be argued for lithium which occurs naturally in certain water springs.
These programs are a nice application of the "Stanford Prison Experiment". Dress a man like RoboCop and he starts acting like RoboCop.
That online reference stops in 2002; for newer, near "state of the art stuff" (e.g. yes Pauseless, no C4), check the second book that shortsightedsid linked to.
The article is somewhat misleading in portraying Germany as a leader. In fact, these policies find their origin in the 2003 EU Energy Directive. What they describe is true in all the E.U. countries which met their respective renewable energy objectives as mandated by the E.U.
Nice, what abou a Ruby wrapper for this API? Like this https://github.com/rodrigoalvesvieira/NYTimesAPI
:) Well, I may have overstated it a bit with "no one." You and I would like it. But Coq, as cool as it is, is definitely not as accessible as say, python.

I doubt there would be sufficient interest in a website with problems like "Prove the sqrt(2) is irrational with coq."
Ever since I meet this man, my life is not the same.
Haha, I had a similar experience when I lived in Central America. I came in crying to dinner with my host family because my girlfriend Alejandra had broken up with me. The mom of the family said, no problem, just memorize this poem: "Alejandra era una rosa, y Alejandra era un clavel, pero ahora es un cerrote envuelto en un papel!" (Alejandra was a rose, and Alejandra was a carnation, but now she's a piece of shit wrapped up in toilet paper!). Definitely made me feel better.
How well do the EU countries meet their objectives? Are any doing better than others? German demand for solar was so strong it drove up the price of silica.
I can't even get pyobjc running on 10.9..
New cancer therapy uses molecular ‘Trash Man’ to exploit a common cancer defense
WTF Secrets – Redditors dirty little secrets sprinkled with light illustrations
I wonder how much of the increase in men living alone can be explained by economic migration? It might have become more common for a man to move abroad to find work and send money back to their family living back home.
There is something about there being 4 electrons in the outermost shell of an element.

What is it?
Interesting how this post is disappearing fast from the front page.

On the other hand, when Apple launches a new product, the front page looks like the front page of Apple.com, for more than 1 day.
It's called an expectation of privacy and it is something along the lines of not being investigated when you're not the suspect of some crime. Seems reasonable to me.
Rocket-Launched Noodles to Cook on Re-Entry Heat
I tried this kind of selectors for styling and I don't like it. I can explain why with a question :

What if you want a button that looks like a like and a link that looks like a button. In your case you will have to overwrite "button" selector, which is with very high specificiy and to override the main selector styles.

button.link { color: white; border: 0; background: none... }

and then copy the relevant for only a link styles to your link selector ( a ).

This works good for small code base, but once you go to several pages and need specific links it starts to make a lot of problems.

I stopped using this way of styling buttons not so long ago and I switched it to :

<button class='button'></button>
<button class='button button-primary'></button>
<button class='button button-danger'></button>

And also for links

<a class='link'>Link</a>
<a class='link link-primary'></a>

And then I can easily switch

<button class='link link-primary'></button>
<a class='button button-danger'></a>

without touching my code.

Same applies for input[type='...'] rules. I just add class name.
Status of Response to 2014 California Drought
I'm not sure if you're talking about connecting a monitor or connecting a graphics card. Graphics card is easy, USB is only a small multiple slower than thunderbolt, and as long as you have room for the textures 4Gbit/s is fine.

Uncompressed 4k is trickier. It looks like thunderbolt 2 has barely enough bandwidth, and USB 3.1 has barely not enough. No reason to expect they won't have a 3.x that supports it.
Looks like you have an empty session list. Have you ever used Safari? Quick workaround might be to pop open Safari once (and browse a little) and then try again.
Can Genetic Engineering Save the Florida Orange?
Multiplayer Browser-Based Pokemon Red
IMHO, I must respectfully disagree. It is easy for non-nerds to try defining nerds in their own image.

This is true especially for journalists. They have a conflict of interest in the matter.

Their interest is to sell content online or in the newspapers. To appeal to people's self-aggrandizement is a very powerful motivation in this case.

Is that what Mr Cohen is doing? At a glance that's not certain. However with regard to this opinion piece, reviewing definition of terms and how they are used, looking for logical fallacies, reviewing the background of people being interviewed and some healthy skepticism is warranted.

Journalists talking about science and scientists is not equivalent to a thorough understanding of it.
Win a Paleo Vegetarian Cookbook
Very interested to try this out on my own machines to see the results. I know somebody who does computer security at a University and the staff there has been frustrated with the lack of available forensics tools for OSX, so this may nicely fill an empty niche for some industry people as well.
Recalls are a sign that a manufacturer takes its reputation serious and has the interest of the customer at heart. Beware of the car manufacturer that never has recalls.
How would you value a site that has no current revenue but many users? Would it just be something like PAGEVIEWS * POTENTIAL_CPM * RISK_AND_DIFFICULTY_FACTOR? I'm sure it largely depends on the type of site, but I was wondering if there's any general concepts to keep in mind.
Cryptanalysis of Vulcan [pdf]
Actors are to be forgotten, but the message isn't.

Sure the 1-in-all credit card is so funny and powerful that I can remember the story and what the actor (Adam) kinda look like. That's because the actual selling product resonate with the viewers and the ad itself is both dramatically and realistic.

You probably can arrange your contract with Adam such that you can be the voice while his team does all the acting. Think of Apple's videos, usually Jon Ive is the one talking (probably due to his English accent) and his appearance only last 1-2 seconds in the video.
Sending too much data is often better than having to do many RPC calls. It's the same problem than normalizing/denormalizing DB schemas, except that DB engines are smart (denormalizing can hurt perf) while RPC clients aren't.
We're living in an exciting time for the media industry. Traditional companies, with their origins in paper-based news distribution, have no choice but to change their business models. The content supply chain, fundamentally, must look something like this:

NYT[ journal -> write -> edit -> publish -> distribute]

Content has to be produced, and it has to be distributed. In general, any piece of content will flow along that chain.

Before the Internet, the "old guard" of media -- The Times, The Post, etc. -- held a monopoly on the entire supply chain. They found the sources, wrote the articles, and even delivered them to your door, printed and ready to read. It would have been difficult for an outside company, or industry, to encroach on any part of the NYT business. Why would the NYT surrender part of such a valuable supply chain? By controlling content from production to distribution, they were able to charge higher prices for it.

But now, the distributive power of the Internet has broken the supply chain in half, resulting in new economic specialization. Buzzfeed beats the NYT in distribution, but the NYT beats Buzzfeed in production quality. Now, the supply chain looks more like:

NYT[ journal -> write -> edit -> publish] -> [distribute]BUZZ

It seems that there is a place for both Buzzfeed and the NYT on the supply chain. One can control, and should specialize in, the production of content. The other can distribute it.

Old media companies are finally "waking up" to the threat of content distribution experts like Buzzfeed. The Guardian, WaPo, and the NYT have fantastic tech departments forming a smart digital strategy. They recognize that yes, Buzzfeed is taking part of their supply chain, but no, Buzzfeed cannot compete with the NYT on journalistic integrity. As long as the NYT employs the staff that it does, with writers of decades of experience and connections in the industries they cover, there will be a demand for NYT content. Some of that demand may come from end-consumers, and some may come from distribution companies like Buzzfeed. But the fact of the matter is, the NYT can still own the production part of the supply chain, and it makes sense to mitigate the threat to their distribution models by selling production "wholesale" to distributors.

This move from the NYT is a great milestone for their digital strategy. They're recognizing that content, like any product, has a supply chain and production process. They know they own the production process, but the Internet has enabled new companies to own downstream parts of the supply chain. So by releasing API's to their raw content, they are providing access to their raw product for any company who might want to sell it.
Would you support it if "bullying" was shown to work?

Leaving people to freely chose their food is obviously not working. We could pay people to eat more healthily - would you support that? So why is it different to add costs to unhealthy food?
The difference is that you're talking about something which is MUCH smaller: someone can port the CDM to a new platform in far less time than it'd take for a complex platform like Flash or Silverlight because all you're dealing with is the DRM, not things like networking, display, sound, hardware accelerated video decoding, OpenGL, etc. Both Flash and Silverlight are to a first approximation as complicated at the entire web stack and almost none of that functionality is needed for a simple video player.

Yes, it sucks that it's proprietary but since consumers don't show any sign of refusing to buy DRMed content it makes sense to restrict the footprint as much as possible rather than letting the requirement for DRM drive your entire platform.
What an awful article. The whole "let's imagine how Steve Jobs would do it" thing is so lame and morbid. His whole critique is basically "Why isn't Tim Cook the same as Steve Jobs?!" If you need bullshit "storytelling" to like or buy a product, then that product probably sucks.
BWT-based compressors like bzip2 do best when their inputs have highly repetitive structure. In a JSON file with many repeated keys, the information that `"k` is usually followed by `ey_1": "` is compressed very effectively. For similar reasons, bzip2 tends to outperform gzip on executables-- it can more effectively model the conditional probability of opcode sequences.

See http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html#Section_55 for more discussion
> Except for the grids and a bit of the nav

How would this be fixed if you want it completely semantic?
>Depression gets better [...] when you're busy enough to not have time worrying about it.

Very harmful advice potentially.
Show HN: django-settings-export - export Django settings to templates
PennApps X Award Ceremony Live Stream
Android++ Public Beta Release
As a developer on Mac, I think game programming is one of the last resorts where WinPCs are clearly better and/or needed - except for Unity based programming maybe. VS is quite dominant in that area, isn't it?
Tales of Statisticians: George B. Dantzig
OSXAuditor is pretty dope and we used it a bunch at Yelp. Over time, we created what we think is an inspired next version - https://github.com/Yelp/osxcollector
Russia violated the territorial integrity of the Ukraine. Period. The inner situation is obviously complex and splitting the Ukraine into two states may actually be the best option to resolve the inner conflicts, but this is the business of the Ukraine and not Russia.
The manhunt for Yasin Bhatkal
The World Wide West of Web Editing
While it's true that sometimes you want a link to act as a button ( <a class = "button">Looks like button</a> ), I cannot think of the case when you want a button to look like a link.

May I ask, in what situation did you encounter this? I still think this is way too specific (I have never had to do something like that). Picnic lets buttons be buttons, and links be links OR buttons, just buttons cannot be links.

I think in this way you can achieve less bloated classes and better readability. I value that higher than allowing buttons to be links. That's just my preference. Thank you for the insight though, it's a clear and good explanation of Picnic limits.
the API is a great idea.

So I tried signing up for an account. Their on-boarding process - prehistoric. Nope.
Since I studied finance and investment management and also passed CFA level 1, I have to tell you:
How much a company is worth depends on your investment horizon, which might be more than 1 year or you use more than 1 year's earnings forecast. But mostly you value dividends (discounted of course) and expected growth in price. This holds true for stocks of course.
In this (I am talking about the OP) case you would probably estimate how risky the investment is and say if you would invest similarly risky in the stock market, you would want 10% per year. You estimate annual earnings say $500 and use your return to estimate the company's worth: $500/.1=$5000.
It just seems like a blanket ban on any commercial applications without some kind of payment and a very small request limit (5000), limits people who will even consider experimenting with it. It seems more geared for web applications/sites that have no native phone apps.
A few months ago I created: http://itsy-bitsy.org/ because I was frustrated with just how many dependencies static site generators needed - I was using Hakyll at the time and it had failed to build on my new netbook - so I wrote it to take the templates and markdown I had from Hakyll and combine them.

It boils down to a 10 line Bash script and the Markdown.pl script.

It is very very basic, but I have used it to back a blog and various other content sites.
I have Cystic Fibrosis, and therefore I cough a lot. A lot of people cough. CF also makes me skinny. A lot of people are skinny. I get tons of "advice" on how to reduce my cough or what to do to gain weight, but most of it is naivety at best, stupidity if they know I have a bona fide condition.
iPhone 6 jailbreak with iOS 8
Cool idea.

But using raw md5 hashes to verify against a blacklist is kind of useless. Especially now.

You should be using smarter file signatures:

http://hooked-on-mnemonics.blogspot.com/2011/01/intro-to-cre...