skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but purely for performance reasons. Ghostery and ABP have drastically improved page load times and reduced resource usage on Chrome. Before I installed ABP, chrome would have a seriously hard time rendering many news sites.
Do you plan and providing a write-up for this repo? I'd love to dive in but don't quite know where to start.
I don't use an ad blocker for ethical reasons, but I'm curious what sites everyone visits so often that have such devastating ads? Safari shows my top sites as Hulu, MacRumors, Hacker News, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Gmail, GitHub, Amazon, Stack Overflow, Chess.com, and Wikipedia. Ads don't bother me much on any of these.
10 Finalist Teams Announced for the Tricorder XPrize
Yes, I know. But I figured that the author was not so misguided as to use actual tabs. Turns out it is Github's CSS that is to blame.
I've been keeping a list of all the things I could have 3D-printed if I had a 3D printer. Maybe some of these will pique your interest:

* Mounts for my washing machine's broken shocks (shocks were fine but the plastic part that holds them to the frame broke). $80/piece for whole new shocks or I could have just printed new mounts (which really are a stupidly simple snap-on component) for less than a dollar.

* The knob on one of our standing lamps broke and won't stay on anymore. I can order a new one for $1.50+$4.95 S/H or I could have just 3D-printed a really cool/custom one for $0.05.

* Lost some of the pieces in your Monopoly game? Just print some new ones. Heck, any gaming figurines can be printed trivially and there's a plethora of free, already-made ones to choose from.

* Missing Lego parts.

* Vacuum cleaner parts... I always wanted one of those wide under-furniture attachments but can't justify the purchase. If I had a 3D printer I could just print one.

* Seriously cool-looking/unique ceiling fan blades (you can print them even on a small 3D printer since you can join multiple parts together on the back of the blade where no one will see).

* Seriously cool/useful wall plates and switches. Example: http://www.yankodesign.com/2007/10/28/wall-cleat/

* Collar tags for my dogs. Actually, whole collars.

* Children's toys.

* Halloween masks.

* Protractors and compasses of any size on-demand.

* Centering gauges of any size on-demand.

* Custom Tupperware-like containers/boxes.

* Phone cases.
Jailbreak and there's almost definitely a tool to do it.
Remember the MongoDB CEO Who Quit to Be a Dad? He’s Loving It
They're not raising their kids to sling code for a living.

CEO's also don't have to use iPad's and TV as cheap babysitters.
As an aside, it's just a modified version of the Readability algorithm, which you can also find on many other platforms.
I haven't been keeping up with Python stuff lately and still use 2.7 for most stuff. Has Python solved the GIL problem yet? Or a threads still pretty useless?
Vue.js has shown to be even more performant than React: http://vuejs.org/perf/
iOS8 Adoption, hour by hour
No matter how right you are, the UK media have picked up that "RBS will move" soundbite and run with it - so annoyingly a great deal of Scots have got "Yes = lose lots of jobs immediately" in their heads.

More on the shifty media tactics employed in this excellent piece by George Monbiot: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/media-s...
Can't you also just verify the sha256 from debian's site? I wrote a script here: https://gist.github.com/shuhaowu/286e6681d6faa473ebb0
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My biggest takeaway was that everything is a negotiation whether you think about it along those lines or not.

Edit: as a whole I find the ETL series more inspirational than actionable. Actionable items would differ from person to person depending on their situation and what they hope to achieve. Might be a key difference from the class Sam Altman is teaching.
It means it doesn't support ABS.
Presumably that also affects the amount of swap space available.
I was a founder of a startup in the 80s and there were various incentives offered by Scotland at the time to set up in Silicon Glen.
No. Geometric intuition is widely believed to be only a very rudimentary native skill. There appear to be structures in our brain that allow us to think spatially [1], but infants are generally unable to perform even very simple geometric reasoning. Our environments are full of geometric theorems however, that our brains become acustomed to within the first few years of our lifes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell
I'm using TinyTinyRSS (ttrss) right now. After google reader was shut down, I was using both ttrss and theoldreader, but found that theoldreader was missing a significant number of entries. Then theoldreader set a cap of 100 feeds for free accounts and removed 30 of my feeds (taking me from 102 to 72...) so now I'm just using ttrss. Open source, has a decent user interface plus free ios apps.
How to make money with videos on Udemy AND YouTube
> require blunt force impact from a sledgehammer before it would crack

Several plastics can do that.

I'm afraid untill somebody comes with a cheap way to manufacture diamonds, we'll have to trade impact strength off scratch resistance in every design.
Same. I had noticed performance degradation in Chrome using ABP, and disabling made things fast again. Haven't enabled a blocker since.
>I know that funding is kind of like a nice additional checkbox on your list of upper-middle class elite treadmill objectives

I work in the finance department for a large corporation, I'm not a start up guy. I don't even live in "Sanfranistan", or California.

I'm really surprised at the negative reactions I'm getting by stating that what school you go to can give a leg up on being successful.
Going to android forums on an android device (with no ad blocking) made me really appreciate how much ad blocking does for me. On those forums I'd see an add fixed at the bottom, a floating ad at the start, and ads in between posts. Even Ars Technica shows me full page click-through ads every time I visit. It's awful!
Thanks Will for reminding me about ecorner!

I had an opportunity to attend Guy Kawasaki's talk, in person back in 2011 & it was very informative & fun !
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2669
For reference, what's the cost of living there? (average housing cost, utilities, etc...)
Apple seemingly removing HealthKit compatible applications
This talk on negotiation is one of the best lectures I've ever heard and I've recommended it to people dozens of times:

Has someone written a transcript?
I have a wooden back on my 1st gen Moto X. It's the "Teak" back. I also have the clear case over the whole thing, which adds some extra weight and bulk. I love the look of it and when I order the next gen Moto X I will probably get the same back. No real differences, it's really just a feel and aesthetic choice.
I installed NoScript several years ago, due to security concerns. I noticed most ads went away by accident. It makes Firefox much faster than stock Chrome.
Yes, absolutely. Maybe if ads were less obtrusive (not animated, didn't strobe, didn't take up > 5% of the screen on mobile) I'd keep them enabled.
The point of including WKWebView in the iOS 8 SDK is to make it accessible to non-Safari apps. They must have actually tested this new component.

I don't doubt that there is probably an explanation that makes sense, but based on what we know, the least malicious explanation is that they forgot to test WKWebView with local files, which doesn't make sense.
I do use a variety of adblockers, but I use them more for privacy reasons than ad blocking. I would be ok with a few ads on a site, but I cannot support companies who want to track people all over the internet.
probably mostly a tactile and aesthetic preference.
Damn right I do.

I use Hostsman to automatically configure the MVPS hosts list. This blocks the ads at OS level; and works with every browser.

Then for extra backup I run (micro)Block on Opera just for those extra ads that slip by the hosts filter.
I've stuck with Samsung, but my wife decided to get the Moto X, and I have to say, I'm impressed. And it's not the hardware, but the Moto software that is cool. Which is funny to me, because I've always been a giant hater of brand software (Dell,HP,Sprint).

It's little things like if you bump the phone, it displays the time. On my Samsung, I have to press the power button, and it takes a second or two before I can see the date/time, and then I have to remember to press power button again or risk butt-operating the phone as I put it back in my pocket. With MotoX it's basically as good as a watch.

It detects when you are driving in the car and it does a few really cool things. If you get a text message, it reads it out loud to you, and you can verbally respond back. If you get a call, you can verbally respond to take it or not. And it has an option in the drag down menu to turn it off in the case you are riding passenger, but my wife still uses the voice commands when she is riding passenger because it's so convenient/nice.
Adblock - to block all the ads, Abine TACO - To opt our of Advertising Networks, Abine - Do Not Track Me, Ghostery - To check which ad network is doing what.

That's what I have on my Chrome.
Honestly, I feel bad for Python. It's a great all-purpose language, concise and powerful, if a little slow. I started tinkering with Flask over the weekend, and I wanted to do it in Python 3, but even the Flask site warns you that most Flask plugins are written only for Python 2. I last used Python at Hacker School, and also used Python 3. In the two years since, it doesn't feel like Py3k adoption has progressed at all. In the meantime, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone running PHP 4, and the PHP community has moved entirely away from it.
Damn it, I got the Moto X because it was the last of the sub 5.0 inch screen phones. Looks like it is time to switch to the samsung alpha.
If they offered a sub-$2k CNC machine, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Now that I think about it, I should probably see what I can actually find for sale...
I use Adblock and Ghostery. With Adblock I manage a whitelist of website to allow adverts on; typically sites I wish to support with ad-revenue and have a reasonable policy for adverts, Reddit's self-service advertising is a good example. I also use Ghostery to remove those social media buttons; for me they add no value, in addition to tracking my online usage for sale to advertisers and slowing down page loads.

EDIT: "reasonable policy" being no flash, no auto-play videos, no flashing banners and no javascript "pop-overs"
"I think that comments mean that source code itself is not readable enough"

Or that the author understands something about architecture. From an internal code base that I can't cut and paste, there's a nice discussion in comment form that paraphrasing is something like "you'd really like to implement an AVL tree here because we do lots of lookups and AVLs are faster than RBs at lookups, but actual performance testing on the test cluster shows that under our real world workload, the slightly better writing performance of the RB outweighs the slightly faster reads, or TLDR do not blindly change this to a AVL thinking you'll win, because you won't".

(Oh and obviously business logic. I find nothing inherently technologically wrong with the concept of say, floats for currency, perhaps in a hard sci fi novel, although as a business logic concept that is widely considered horrifically wrong, and there's nothing wrong with documenting business logic in comments although float currency is a ridiculous extreme example... how bout, and this GIGO filter forbids negative interest rates or something, which makes math sense and computer sense but from a business logic perspective might be quite icky)

I agree with you WRT comments for regex looking like line noise or programming 101 style syntax comments "x = 1 // this step sets the variable x to contain the integer number 1"
Show HN: Fossil Fuel Disasters in the U.S
What blocker do you use that has decent blacklisting support? I tried a few some months back and went back to Ad Block Plus with whitelisting.

I'd rather blacklist though. I want to support sites that use unobtrusive advertising, but block ads on sites that use autoplaying videos, distracting animations, disgusting pictures of yellow teeth, etc.
The Nokia N9 had a fantastic way of switching keyboards. In keeping with the "Swipe UI" theme you would just swipe the keyboard horizontally and it would roll over to the next one. Brilliant, elegant, buttonless, consistent.
I use a range of blockers, but primarily for security, privacy and performance reasons rather than because I have anything against use of ads to support a site.

If I could allow reasonable ads but still guaranteeing that I would avoid the more hostile junk then I would, but unfortunately we haven't solved that problem yet.
UEFI just went into FreeBSD (it might make 10.1-RELEASE)

In other words: it's too early.
Agreed - I really enjoy writing Python but the more I use it the more I run into concurrency and performance bottlenecks. I think the big win will be moving away from the GIL but I image that to be a big ordeal.
The term "hive mind" has connotations of lack of independent thought and disregard for the well-being of individuals. It's the sort of thing you'd use to describe an alien insect species psychically controlled by a central queen in a sci-fi novel. A functioning representative democracy is not the sort of image it evokes.
Next Future Terrifying Technology Will Blow Your Mind (feat Bruce Schneier)
Debugging to Customer Hugging – Becoming an SE – Sumo Logic
The Moto X has been the best Android I've ever used.

I'm tempted to order the new Moto X right now now but I find it absurd that in a late 2014 flagship the only storage options are 16 and 32 gigs. I'll have to wait for a 64 gig one to be announced.
Ethical Difficulty of Supporting Android
I find it sad that they won't make any changes to python that break backwards compatibility from now till 2023 or beyond. I mean, I'm all for maintaining backwards compatibility but if a language wants to evolve it has to be willing to make major changes, no language, especially one as featured as python, is at the point where they should stop making large changes and focus on perfecting and improving it. A language should never say its just going to "improve" from here on out. Its fine to have a stable stream that focuses on that but you need to be willing to take risks some times. At least that's my 2 cents, but what do I know.

(To clarify: I don't think a huge split should happen as it did previously from 2 to 3 but I do think that there should be a dev stream for implementing major new features)
I've used an adblocker on desktop for at least a decade, so I don't know what ads are like on desktop these days. But mobile is a different ballgame. I didn't use an adblocker for a couple years, and just put up with the wasted bandwidth and scrolling annoyance. But then the ads started talking, usually on how-to articles and the like. And the ads on a forum I visit began redirecting to porn sites and app stores.

I put up with that shit for a couple months, hoping it would clean itself up. But it didn't. So I installed Firefox with Adblock and now I never see ads and never will. I will be using an Adblocker on mobile for the rest of my life.

I see nothing unethical about this. The marketers abused their position, and now I'm punishing them for it. If websites can't support themselves without using this abusive business model, then perhaps they should go out of business.
Vue is a framework that caught my eye a while back, and it's approach seemed like a nice compromise between backbone and angular. I haven't seen much published about it though, does anyone have experience working on a decent sized project with it, and if so how was the experience?
I've played around with both, and the extruder printers are generally vastly inferior to the printers that use lasers.
That warning is old. Most popular Flask extensions work well with Python 3 now. I've recently written a large Flask application targeted at Python 3 with no issues. If you have problems with Python 3 compatibility, report the issue, the maintainers are good about fixing these things.
Only if you're a citizen of a commonwealth country — I'm an American, so doesn't apply to me.
Readability is about how quickly you can figure out what's going on. There are only a few bits of syntax you need to know what's going on in the first example, but it requires mentally matching together the angle brackets correctly, and it emphasises the type over the function name.

In most cases you can scan over the type ('map blah blah...iterator') but that's not reading and in any case will quickly fail you with nested template types, if you're unfortunate enough to have those.
In case anyone is looking for a good HOSTS file to use as a template: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
DesignSpark PCB for me. Eagle has probably the worst UI in existence. I've not used Fritzing but it looks overly simplistic.
MOD Duo: An open source multi-effects pedal, running linux+jack+lv2 effects
For technical users, NoScript is a godsend. Pages load so quickly, and the pages are uncluttered with garbage "functionality". I wish there was some way to give it to non-technical users, but there really isn't, it's just too complex.
Yes, but I have switched from ABP to router-based DNS blocking. I buy TPLINK WR841Ns for 18 euros and install DDWRT + dns-based ad-blocking script.

This works for all devices at once. ABP on Android sucks and is it even available on iOS?

I occasionaly sell these routers to family and friends as well.
I changed to adblock edge and haven't noticed any problems myself, but also run noscript & disconnect so those might be helping.
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Obviously won't work all the time, but you can set up a custom DNS server for when you're at home and block ad-serving domains.
Building a better Instagram app for Android
Well if we're just going to compare one-sided views:

http://nypost.com/2013/11/02/nyc-on-track-to-be-nations-safe...
I don't know what I do right but I never see any annoying ads. The only automatic video I get are the one from Facebook and they are from people on my friends list.

I remember seeing theses oversize flash ads but that was a long time ago.
Author source repos have been hacked before, they'll be hacked again.

I think what people are sensing, even if they can't put their finger on it, is that you're applying fairly arbitrary standards of what's good and bad here. In reality, security is hard to the point of sheer impossibility regardless of what you do, if you hold everything to equally strict standards. If this leads you to write off apt probably the only consistent thing to do is stop using software entirely, honestly. Nothing is secure to that standard, and even with "certified software" one would forever be wondering about whether the certifiers have their own motives. It seems disingenuous to try to use this as an excuse to slag apt specifically, when with the standards you're using you ought to be yelling about many more things, including your putative solution. (How are you sure your signature checking code wasn't compromised?)
"The plan is to use oil money that may or may not exist to give more and more freebies to those in government jobs or on welfare" - that sounds rather extreme, where in the independence whitepaper is this outlined?

"The banks have already started moving their head offices..."
Which banks, sorry? Do you mean RBS (who talked about how they may or may not move their registered office to London leaving their operations intact in Scotland) or Lloyd's (already headquartered in London)? If not these, then which?

There's maybe legit reasons to think about voting "No" - you needn't muddy the waters by just simply making things up and talking nonsense.

Remember you're talking to fairly smart people on HN so the FUD is unlikely to hold much water here, save it for Facebook.
libapt has also been updated and the changelog (accessed via aptitude) is the same as for apt itself.

Interestingly both are given "urgency=low" ratings; at least 3 other updates have been medium urgency this year.

Edit: sorry should have said on Ubuntu; I've got libapt-inst1.5:amd64 (1.0.1ubuntu2.3) from trusty/main.
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Widely used is the only thing in your list that's not subjective, and also the only one I agree with.

PHP is also widely used, but I wouldn't say the developers of PHP have made good decisions.
I use OpenDNS from my router to block ad domains on all my devices, as well as Adblock. You have to add some custom domains to hit the major sources, but it works reasonably well when you're at home.
The thermal throttle limit (PROCHOT), according to the MSRs, is 95. I did read through the various thermal status and thermal log MSRs, which were always zero, suggesting we aren't thermal throttling. Although I'm not sure those MSR bits are exposed by Xen. (They probably are, since the other bits in the same MSR are.)

Just checking the Intel manual docs:

"• Thermal Status (bit 0, RO) — This bit indicates whether the digital thermal sensor high-temperature output signal (PROCHOT#) is currently active. Bit 0 = 1 indicates the feature is active. This bit may not be written by software; it reflects the state of the digital thermal sensor.

• Thermal Status Log (bit 1, R/WC0) — This is a sticky bit that indicates the history of the thermal sensor high temperature output signal (PROCHOT#). Bit 1 = 1 if PROCHOT# has been asserted since a previous RESET or the last time software cleared the bit. Software may clear this bit by writing a zero."

I was checking both, and both were zero.

So if we aren't thermal throttling, then I guess it still may be the fans...
That doesn't surprise me; PulseAudio had the same complete lack of source code comments last time I looked. (Was trying to track down a crash in the resampling code. In the end I think I concluded that what the code was doing made no sense, it was unlikely it had ever worked properly, several important variable names were misleading in a way that had probably tricked a developer, and it wasn't worth trying to figure out a fix.)
"Android phone", please :(

or "Android device". technically speaking, "Android" should be "Android-based" for all devices that aren't pure Android, which may or may not be the case for the Moto X, depending on which Moto X you get.

I also think that /slightly/ adulterated stock Android might be "close enough" to count as "Android" instead of "Android-based", but I'm not sure.
Marketers broke "the contract" first.
Editorial: Some Subjective Thoughts on Objectivity
ClassPass Lands $12M Series A Led by Fritz Lanman, Hank Vigil
Although I never used React, Angular has something similar to "components" called directives which you can configure into something similar to a component. The one issue I have with it is that if you want CSS compartmentalized into the directive it has to be inlined in styles attribute of your template string.
Do I verify signatures when downloading and building from source on Slackware? Yes, I do. Slackware itself comes with nearly all the software I need already. The few programs I need to get beyond that, I always verify hashes. I do this using a script I wrote myself (I'm not a programmer by trade but I can bash out a script, no pun intended). I really don't understand why that's surprising; slackbuilds.org encourages its users to verify source tarballs before compiling, and it's a few seconds of extra work.
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Reminds me of this post - http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/05/a-fb-ad-targeted...
I been using a couple Flask plugins and have yet to encounter one that doesn't support Python 3. If I do encounter one, I will most likely end up writing my own to fit my needs using their code as a guide.
Who exactly is feeding off of who in this relationship?