skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best thing to do - you do not need people who already know a language, just good people who want to learn.
Please, change it back. These are completely different articles, and most of comments here are about the first one.
> I hadn't heard of India's general elections and smooth transfer of power, so that helps clarify things for me.

I wouldn't blame you.

Here in Australia there was minimum coverage. Its almost like the developed countries didn't want their public to know that some developing countries are doing well.

But I have seen Australia's main TV station ABC run NZ votes, Indonesia Votes, Thailand votes special. Didn't happen for India.

Funny trying to hide the actions of 1+ billion people :)
LTV normally incorporates churn as part of the calculation. If it didn't then unless you have a time-value-of-money discount in there, the LTV of a customer would be infinite. Perhaps you're positing that the LTV refers to the actual physical Lifetime of a customer - but, statistically, that just turns into a churnrate too (sad to say, even 100% of a consumer's lifetime is more than a 0.5% churn rate spread across the whole population).
I don't think you should. Every UNIX operating system has ifconfig. Writing a nonstandard tool instead of fixing the standard one is very antisocial behaviour from the Linux community, mirroring that of Microsoft. Have a look for example at how excellent the ifconfig program for OpenBSD is. These days Linux has become so popular, that it starts to pretend other operating systems and standards are no longer relevant.
Repeatedly Reinventing the ORM Wheel for Fun and Profit – Part 2
"Initiated by a Hamas attack on Israel"

Narrow interpretations like these show either an ignorance of events or arrogant bias, and are not that hard to avoid as a writer if you actually try.
As someone that did San Diego to San Francisco to Salt Lake to Chicago to New York City to Rochester to Washington DC and back again by train: it was a crazy, interesting, fun, and tiring experience well worth it.

If you ever have the opportunity, take the train on a cross country trip. If you don't upgrade to a sleeper car, make sure to stop every second day if your trip is longer than 5 days. You will want to shower, sleep, and enjoy some quiet before getting back on the train.

This article definitely captures the feeling.
Just making a tiny point here : advising criminals on how to avoid law enforcement is obviously illegal and carries prison sentences. Please don't do it. If you must, start an unrelated article or something. But don't explicitly try to help other criminals avoid capture.

Frankly it is also immoral. This guy was selling drugs without caring about the consequences on people's lives, medical and otherwise and was organizing assassinations.

This is not the FBI enforcing the letter of some stupid law, this is not some teenager getting in over his head, this guy needs to be punished.
Show HN: Hong Kong news dispatches using interactive video
Inside a single data center they're rare, but when running on AWS in multiple availability zones and regions they're a fact of life which you should be designing your systems to deal with. Given that it would be great to have automated tooling to simulate them and keep everyone on their toes.
There seem to be a lot of private enterprise that competes and prospers even when there is a large state presence. FedEx is an example that comes to mind.

"This is a natural fit for the US, where the business of healthcare happens much closer to (and often involves) the end consumer."

Seems true, but would add that it could go a whole lot closer. The typical consumer is generally insulated by insurance being packaged into employment deals and a near universal culture of prepay masquerading as 'insurance.'
You say the NSA don't know what they're doing?

(Snowden suggests they don't and that they have some level of incompetence).

They'd search you going in and searchyou going out and probably observe you while you're there.

You should operate under the assumption that the NSA are not idiots.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/feedtrough_ns...

This is iust one example, but there are many more, of backdoors introduced by NSA into commercial equipment.
"Initiated by a Hamas attack on Israel, the most recent conflict" Please avoid such ignorant and biased comments. You actually don't need them for the article.
I haven't yet seen a paper claiming either way. It spreads through fluids, so likely it can remain stable in chlorinated water for at least a few seconds.
It's illegal already to explain to setup a secure hidden service on the Tor network? I don't think this discussion is only relevant to criminals. There are a lot of places on this planet where this information might be useful.

I don't support the Silk Road - never used it - I don't even use Tor a lot by myself. But if someone is coming at me and tells me that this information is forbidden I'll get angry.

It's not like there is a drug problem besides Silk Road already. It's likely safe to assume that illegal drugs are consumed in near distance to your and my place right now. I don't think the Silk Road is a good place but it's likely better than your shady dealer on the schoolyard. If you ask why people use drugs than take a look at society at large.

What exactly is illegal here? I'm also not located in the US.
I believe what is described is repetition, but not rote learning. That, to me, means memorizing facts without connecting the dots. Rote memorization is learning for an exam by memorizing the previous years' problems, or learning history by memorizing dates and events. If I focus on knowing the previous years problems by heart, I may accidentally make the connections to be able to solve more varied problems, but thats rather inefficient. Similarly, knowing historical dates doesn't imply an understanding of why and how things happened.

Learning different conjugations of verbs by using them in sentences isn't rote learning, either. It's rather the opposite, trying to connect the new verb into the existing knowledge of the language.

Rote learning alone is useless for most students. Repetition is certainly important in retaining information, no doubt about it, but as with the math examples, you need to apply basic arithmetic in the context of solving equations, for example, to really get a "feel" for it, a sort of automatism where you not only know how to do 1+1, but also WHEN to use this knowledge.

As far as complex algorithms and such go, I do believe they can be broken down into pieces, but you really do have to know the pieces and their relations and implications innately, and with complex algorithms, it's really hard to know all the pieces of the puzzle, and sometimes even finding out what is missing is difficult. You can drill something ad infinitum without gaining anything if you're missing something.

I believe this to be the secret skill that the article omits. In order to learn effectively, you have to recognize where your knowledge is lacking, find out what it is you should know, and drill those parts. A teacher should help students find these gaps and help fill them. The rest is just a little bit of willpower and discipline.
> just good people who want to learn

"just", right? Booking.com must be doing a massive palm right now. Why didn't they think of that...
Do you know whether the linked article is what Facebook is currently using, or a proposal? Facebook is an example of a webapp that fairly often has user-visible weird behavior, like "read" notifications becoming unread again. But I'm not sure if those are glitches, or a result of their consistency model.
Maybe it would be better to make you type some characters on the keyboard. Similar tricks with outher human interface devices. That way the user physically can't do it with fake USB sticks.

It would require that all these devices have at least some basic functionality with only some standard drivers. I don't know how true that is right now.
Is it time to have special judges/jury who understand the technical details of such cases? I can't seem to even think as to how a judge/jury with no technical expertise would understand the fine print of the details being given out by the lawyers.
I'd love to see what laws you're breaking, as that would be at the level of "thought police". How do you know he's helping criminals, is Tor and hidden services just used by criminals in your mind?

Yes - he broke the law, but that does not mean that the FBI should get a pass for doing something shady. If we start to accept that kind of behaviour from them, I can only imagine how it will be 20-30 years from now.
Just making a tiny point here. Setting up secure Tor-based servers is not only something that criminals need to do. Please don't suggest it is.
Don't confuse a WebRTC implementation with the Cisco supplied H.264 codec binary and MPEG LA coverage. You get H.264 support in Mozilla & Chrome via this mechanism.
My PV guests were not rebooted, but some others' were.
5 Unexplained Mysteries of Science
We have everyting to worry about. Would you feel safe/confortable with a toddler waving a fire arm on your face?
Technically, the recent conflict was in fact, initiated by Hamas.
I was quoting from the original article http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/10/reading-silk-road-configur...

Which has since been changed to
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-road-lawyers-poke-ho...
Good hardware, consistent experience, lots of development tools. I moved from Linux to Mac simply because it lets me focus on work and less on fiddling around.

I would obviously have liked to use a completely open OS as well, but it's not like there's a lack of community on OS X.
C'mon booking, add one more 0 at the end :)
Dammit, HN, don't do it. http://xkcd.com/787/
It seems they donate for perl 5 development. Nothing for perl 6 ?
I just did an 8 and got nothing close, but wow there are a lot of interesting Unicode characters.
According to the RFC for SRV records, applications SHOULD NOT use SRV records unless explicitly allowed in the standard/RFC for that protocol. There is no mention of SRV records in either the old HTTP RFC or the new HTTP/2 draft RFC; therefore, clients are not permitted to use SRV records.

(I wrote about this previously here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522208)
Uh oh, get ready for being called "anti-semetic" if you even remotely show any sympathy for these kids...

I came across an article a while ago about some Palestinian kids inventing a device to convert plastic waste to petrol. I think it's amazing that amidst a world of hell, they are still trying to apply their minds: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/occupation-cant-stifle-innova...
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Lots of needtoknowers will have their eyes opened, that's for sure.
As an employer, they have quite a bad reputation ( http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mkdl4/what_exactly_is... )

I'm sure they would find quite many candidates if they were willing to offer premium compensation.

When there is a talk about shortage of skilled workers, it is really about shortage of skilled workers willing to work for average or below-average compensation.
Why downvoted ? Allegedly, blue-ray recordable discs are used by Amazon for Glacier backup. Surely they will be the ones very interesting of further development of this technology.
Hacking college
Well, as long as I don't have to use HTML and JavaScript.
What would perhaps be a worthwhile feature is the ability to input already known unicode names into a text box after seeing the results, to feed the database with more useful matches.

For example, tried drawing a somewhat joined 'TM' a couple times but no matches for 'Trademark symbol', however a way to manually input that unicode/name might provide the database with a positive match for the next user trying to find it.
AngularJS Tutorial: a comprehensive 10,000 word guide
Yes 50 pages
And because China and Russia have the highest rates of people running busted old XP/IE6 installs full of spyware.
The Ultimate Marijuana Strain App
I wouldn't disagree with most of that, except for it being useless, it's janky but give it what it wants and the results are generally good. A bit like an old car I guess ;-)
Adam I completely agree. Markdown is fantastic at something. That something is non-complex documents. What has happened since is that techies have taken that non-complex use case for the tech and made the logical leap that it is somehow a leas complex tool for complex cases. In other words "average users will understand this". The average user likely will for the most basic case and then will be thrust upon a poorly standardized, often needlessly complex hash of a markup extension set for anything more complex. All of this energy at the expense of HTML gaining more users and or web based WYSIWYGs being refined to the point of awesomeness.
I don't think that it is. You include both views in the submitted app and decide to show only one. There's no code push being done.
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Europe has approved Facebook's $19B acquisition of WhatsApp
It works. Good work.
Internet Explorer 11's Many User-Agent Strings
> Why doesn't the HTTP/2 protocol use SRV DNS records?

This was discussed by the WG. The best rationale is given in the thread starting from this mail[0] from Will Chan at Google, followed up by this one[1] from Amos Jeffries (Squid Proxy). The summary is: waiting for SRV lookups can be slower than just doing straight-up A records, so no client in a competitive space is going to do it.

Everyone agrees that in an ideal world this would be great, but in practice no-one is going to be the first person to move on that front. The wins aren't big enough and the cost is too high.

[0]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2014JanMar/...
[1]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2014JanMar/...
I don't know how the US legal system works - but is there any chance of the DPR actually walking away a free man if the FBI are lying?
Explaining how something works is not illegal in the US. Not sure why you think it is.
Most people don't feel sorry for the guy but we don't want the country to turn in to a lawless place where law enforcement doesn't have to follow the law.
Be careful with what you wish... It might happen.
Wow, I wish I had you around all the time so I could ask you how things technically are, in fact.
It's a device, mostly intended for research purposes, that proxies the USB protocol back up to a python program/library.

Basically you plug in USB at one end, at the other end you can script the USB protocol with python, emulating any USB device you want to (or that you can write the code for).
Responsive libraries used in the wild
What bothers me is that Hamas (and jihad-driven islamists in general) are seemingly a minority, even in Gaza. Why don't you build a reservation for them or something?

There are many parties who are interested in re-igniting the conflict, for example those who sell weaponry. Clearly neither Israelis nor Gazans (talking about general population, like 99.9% of the people) are enjoying the moment.

(I personally wrote many loc in a shelter, to a soundtrack of sirens and explosions — islamists' rockets aren't even targeted at something specific, they just continuously bomb more populated areas in Israel, major cities.)
Could probably be written all at once using immersion lithography. You could threat them as big read only memory 'crystals'. Buy a set of 100 containing entire YT archive etc
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is the case. In fact, I'm running PV on m3.medium instances (EDIT: and c3.large) right now. It depends on the AMI you use to launch the instance, though some instance types only support HVM (e.g. t2.* or r3.* ) or PV (old-gen t1.* or m1.* ), but some, like m3.* and c3.* which are current-gen, support both. See the Amazon Linux AMI availability matrix for example: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/instance-type-matrix/
I'm sure this or a similar technique is already in use in commercial photolithography.
Many of the scientists operating/designing these facilities Bamford mentioned in the article were actual Nazis brought into the US through operation paperclip.

Hardly surprising the organisations that employ them feel they're above the law.
$55 - Kindle price? $20 more than the paper version? Nice try, amazon!
For example, I like running the latest version of Vim (OS X is often behind). Compiling from the source, I can control what the binary is named (to avoid a name collision with the built in Vim), I can control the features (--with-features), and I can have it install to a directory of my choosing (~/Applications, where I also have scrypt install).I also install Lame and FLAC this way.

As for bread, no, I am horrible at cooking!
A lot of brick-and-mortar store chains do that in France, actually (Darty, FNAC, etc.).

They have an online store, and on each product page there is a field "stock in your preferred store". That's very handy; you can even order it online and pick it up in the store, so you don't have to pay or wait for delivery.

Several times I was planning to buy online, but since I found out on their site that their price is competitive and I can get it today, I ended up taking my car to a brick-and-mortar shop.
Technically it wasn't at all. It's a lot more complex than people think. But do we really want to have this conversation?
Maybe. Though I don't know what other evidence they have. It might allow him to plead to lesser charges.
Long but give an overview of this point:
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Fruit+of+a+poi...
If they are often watching full episodes or movies, I wouldn't call it very quick. Though progress state would be changing near constantly.
They didn't think to weight the prior probabilities by usage frequency* - drawing a reasonable ? gives me ȓ, ᕉ, ╔, ᣑ, Ѓ, ק, ᒌ, ŕ, ᒤ, ᒦ, ņ, ᒯ, ѓ, and finally ?.

I'm also guessing that they're directly comparing the handwritten character to some version of the unicode character rather than with human attempts to draw the character. Human drawings are often quite different (more slanted, stylised etc.) than typeface characters. This is much more forgiveable though because assembling a good dataset for human drawn characters is hard (especially for any reasonable chunk of the unicode set).

(*this is fairly easy to do: just find some large source of typical unicode, like Wikipedia in all languages, and index them).
JavaScript Libraries for October 2014
Am I being extremely thick here?

The evidence submitted by the FBI [1] shows the phpmyadmin page running on address 192.168.1.24. Are they claiming to have connected over the internet to a public facing RFC1918 address and it was routable?

(Saying that, I'm now realising that I could knock up a similar screenshot showing me connecting to any "real-world" IP address anyway; it seems to prove nothing.

[1] http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/70-8.p...
The topic is about exercising, and I don't think it means running a marathon. Exercising is about regularity and pain should be considered very seriously.
My stupid blog is only read by dummies
Yeah, it seems like they're taking the drawing and matching the edges and points up with edges and points in a font file. Hopefully they'll start weighing by frequency and add more glyphs soon!
It'd be nice to take credit, but it's not my page =-)
SHOULD NOT prohibits nothing.

Indeed, since the HTTP/1.1 RFC was issued in 1999 and the SRV RFC in 2000 there is no way it could have mentioned it.

If there are technical reasons why it can't work that's one thing. If some verbiage in the RFC is all that holds it back it's easy to fix: try it out, then issue a new RFC.

The whole RFC process embraces changes like this.
An offline sound-driven kiosk built with a Banana Pi
For network and storage at least, Amazon says that their HVM guests use PV drivers according to this page:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-...

but on this page, they don't say that specifically, but mention the possibility in the PV on HVM section:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/virtualiz...

Perhaps/presumably it also depends on the AMI you're using.
Why don't you build a reservation for them or something?

Seems to me all of Gaza is a reservation, as are the bantustans in the West Bank...

I really don't mean to incite any political conversation here. I enjoy it, but I don't think HN is the right platform for any meaningful discussion, unless it's targeted to be. But this thread is about startups in harsh conditions.
How I got to writing a book about functional programming in Swift
I nominate the word drudgery for simultaneous pain and boredom.
Input devices are a bit painful on that regard.

The computer can't detect if I have a working and available input device connected - the fact that some devices claim to be connected doesn't imply that, as it may be damaged, a virtual device, or not wirelessly connected but simply listening for a possible connection that may appear at any time.

For example, right now I have a mouse and a keyboard connected, but Windows device manager somehow shows 5 keyboard devices and 4 mouse devices due to various connection drivers listening to devices that might be connected but currently are not. If I came home after a long vacation and found out that the batteries in them are dry, then there would still be multiple devices of the same type "available" when I'd try to connect a wired USB keyboard.

If I want to connect an input device, it is quite possible that the only way that I could allow or disallow anything is through that device itself.
Very complex, yeah. Hamas kidnapped those kids and murdered them. Bad, bad Israelis, not letting Hamas kill more children like that.

This hypocrisy is just ridiculous.
Where I live it is required to be reasonably convinced that a specific person or persons exist that you are helping[1] commit a crime. If you just publish information that helps the general criminal public then the freedom of speech & information trumps the potential harm done to society.

Plus, you're usually also helping the security community. If they know the criminals can do attack X, they can protect against X (no security from obscurity).

[1] Although you don't have to know their identity.
The privacy push by Apple will benefit their healthkit and related apps.

Apple has always been a hardware company and this gives them some competitive advantages over google and facebook who can only make money by ultimately selling your information. Realistically, Google/FB probably won't monetize your health information and instead try to use it to attract you to their other services. But I trust Goog/FB less than Apple to keep my information private.

I hope Apple continues to push the privacy angle. I've seen people here on hn state that young people don't care about privacy, but that isn't what I've witnessed. My youngest relatives (grade school to early college) are privacy conscious and use services that they at least think have privacy (snapchat, for instance).

Also, friends and relatives older at retired age are also privacy conscious. The only people I know that don't seem to worry about their privacy are in their 30s and 40s.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is very complicated I agree. But the latest events were triggered by Hammas organization. That's all..