skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everywhere except Hull and Liverpool. Hundreds of towns and cities, I stayed one night, and then moved on. I found it safer to travel in the days than to wander the streets.

At nights I'd sleep in fields (outside small towns) or in building sites (site offices have a heater and kettle and were usually unlocked - perfect for winter).

During the deep of winter I did the most travelling... I'd try and hitch for most of the day as it would mean somewhere warm for those hours. Scotland to London and back was a regular whenever it snowed.

For money I did odd-jobs along the way, but mostly I would go to student unions (always potential to work for bands playing live - sell their merchandise when they were coming off-stage) and just meet people, have a drink, and that would lead to a sofa to crash on, a shower and cheese on toast in the morning.

It's a very long story, mostly blurred together with some parts more memorable than the others (the extreme lows and highs - hearing gun shots in Manchester, being mugged in Birmingham, falling in love in Glasgow, shivering through the first nights of snow, etc).

One also acquires an incredible awareness for a town, I could be dropped anywhere and know which way the town centre was (look for the lay of the land, the river and the basin), where the rail station was, where the bus stations are, the key routes in and out, and where McDonald's was likely to be (the only place to get a hot meal at 6am-7am). That is a wonderful skill which has proved useful almost everywhere around (the world except the USA - you guys just drop your cities anywhere, and damn the land).
Crowdfunding Multiple Template Engines for Django
>'Anti-assault accessory...Strangers that rescue you are rewarded.'

This is begging for disaster.

I've personally witnessed the ugly mess of an overzealous rescue, a rescuer labeled assailant when the victim changes their mind or late responders are simply confused and of course violent wisdom of gathering mobs.

Digitally amplifying a scream this way is serious business. Assault and attacker, words the site uses freely, are dead serious yet being applied to an easily activated 'bunny' pin with implied 'rewards'.

I hope these folks think heavily about the potential implications - not just intent of what they're doing here.
As usual, action speaks louder than words. This co-operation would probably not take place if India's mission did not take place or very few would listen their Indian counter parts if such agreement were signed without the mission.
From my understanding, It does. But that doesn't make it less worrying. The original talk explains many scary exploitation techniques.
Chicago startup scene has not generated a ton of hits, but there have been a few notable successes. But there are also a lot of solid companies that will probably make money for investors. You have to realize that there are very few Facebooks, AirBnBs and Ubers in total and most of them are by definition in SV. So you would expect relatively few out of Chicago at this point
You could have a master-key (or set of master keys) on a read-write medium, which you could encrypt/decrypt as many times as needed? You'd be vulnerable to someone scraping the master key from memory, but no more than someone just passing the video to a recording device.
No, the app can manage this in most cases - if you enter buy milk twice on the same browser session, it will know how to construct the keys properly. If you buy milk once in two different sessions that are not yet consistent, in both cases you would see only one in the list and so adding another in either or both sessions will yield correct results.
5 Ways to Get Engineers to Actually Do What You Want
Trust me, your description is orders of magnitude more confusing to the layman.
> 3 physical touchpad buttons
>>> Literally, we knew we were ready for our 3rd iteration of the product when customers were pushing us to deliver the product that we had sold them on, but that was not yet developed.

Good for you. I have found similar experiences , you know you have a hit product when people are complaining that you arent taking their money fast enough.
It's the thing I miss most about school: long breaks. Even though I was working most summers, it was ten weeks to recharge, not worry about homework, studying, school drama... I was always very refreshed and eager to start school by the time September rolled around. I feel like my regular work would benefit if I could take a multi-month unpaid vacation.
I've been working on a chocolately script for next time I need to setup a windows machine. This is what I've got so far:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

# tools
choco install dropbox
choco install gow
choco install googledrive

# graphics
choco install inkscape
choco install colorpic
choco install blender
choco install gimp

# IDEs
choco install eclipse
choco install VisualStudio2012Professional

# editors
choco install atom
choco install lighttable
choco install ProgrammersNotepad

# browsers
choco install firefox
choco install GoogleChrome

# languages
choco install jdk8
choco install lein
choco install groovy
choco install python
choco install ruby

# build
choco install ant
choco install gradle
choco install maven
choco install puppet
choco install wixtoolset

# servers
choco install nodejs.install
choco install Tomcat

# databases
choco install mysql
choco install mysql.workbench
choco install toad.mysql

# scm
choco install git.install
choco install TortoiseGit
choco install GitHub
choco install svn
choco install tortoisesvn
choco install ankhsvn
Doctor dons Ebola protection suit to protest ‘asleep at the wheel’ CDC
Thanks for making this site; another vote for SSD filter please. After reading Jeff Atwood's almost religious endorsements (e.g., http://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-solid-state-hard-dri...), I've wanted one for years.
"New Emergent Particle Acts as its Own Anti-Particle".

A layman will not know what "emergent particle" means. (I did not.) But they will at least know that the presence of an adjective implies it's not quite "a particle", and the adjective itself gives a hint to the meaning. If the layman is then piqued, they will get clarification in the article itself.
The fact is people dont react when someone need help in the street/metro. With this kind of reward incensitive, it give a "bonus" to make people move.
My plaintext no animations statically generated site does 5 connections to load the content. http://jeremy.marzhillstudios.com

Now I could optimize that even more by inlining everything with data-inline: but that would impact caching code and be strictly worse for the network.

A property from google even websearch has fancy transitions and animations and dynamic content. And Google has every incentive to limit the number of connections to their page. When I worked there I worked on some of those technologies specifically to avoid too many connections.

Blaming Google for not being disciplined enough disregards their economic incentives to be disciplined enough. They invested a lot of energy in this before SPDY came out. There comes a time where you just have to recognize that the protocol is fighting against you and either give up or evolve the protocol.
Definitely, but after reading some of the responses (e.g. "I ran this script but now my spotlight is missing"), I think too many people skip the learning part.
Lenovo Yoga 2 line?
tl:dr

Mobley, a Medical College of Georgia graduate who had an overnight layover after flying to Atlanta from Guatemala on Wednesday, said that he feels that the CDC is “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to screening passengers arriving in the United States from other countries.

“Yesterday, I came through international customs at the Atlanta airport,” the doctor told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The only question they asked arriving passengers is if they had tobacco or alcohol.”
Could you expand on point (5) re: melatonin? I take it probably 6 nights a week due to dexadrine
Sounds good, thanks! Also, I think you'd get more interest here if there were a simple demo page that people could click through to -- that's the nice thing about JS, after all. Maybe something hosted on a github.io page that just transcribes into a textarea?
Does ASCII Table count? I use that nearly daily.

Beyond that, not hugely. I hit the "man pages" a lot for the libraries but they would never fit on a literal cheat sheet.

It might be useful to have an SQL one. I'm always forgetting syntax. RegX is too complex to summaries and all the summaries are inaccurate (e.g. "This means X unless the following conditions are met then it means the opposite of X, and if other conditions are met then it forms part of Y or nothing at all!")
You're talking about the 'skepticism of sincerity' sense of cynicism on the receiving agents' (OP) side. I'm talking about the 'disregard for accepted or appropriate standards' sense of cynicism on the offering agents' (TS) side.
I hope you get a well informed answer. There are famous (so to speak) examples of such things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l%C3%A9ments_de_math%C3%A...
Reddit requiring remote office, WFH employees to move to SF or lose their jobs
I disagree. The title implies a state of affairs which is not true; a reader is likely to take a solid understanding away from it, but that understanding is wrong.

chton's description will leave such a reader with a greater degree of confusion, but a higher overall level of correct understanding.
Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy, and why you might actually enjoy it
I've played with pocketsphinx.js a fair amount, but this looks WAAAAAAAAAY easier to set up and consume. Nice work.
I remember struggling with Calculus in high school. I sat in the library next to the smartest guy in the class and explained to him that I couldn't figure out why a certain formula was to be used to solve a problem. It went something like:

Steve: "You have to use that formula to solve this."

Me: "I understand that but why do we use that formula?"

Steve: "Cause that's the only formula that works."

Me: "OK but how did they come up with that one formula?"

Steve: "Cause it just works!!"

He didn't know. That's when I first realized a lot of his knowledge was just memorization while I needed to know the why. It wasn't till my first year in college that I finally found a math instructor who always shows us the reasons why that I was able to take off and grasp math by connecting the dots.

So, no, I do not think memorization is the key but, like most zen things, understanding is.
You can't tell from a sponsorship like that whether or not the NSA pressures politicians, for several reasons.

1. the NSA has no reason to fight a bill at all unless there's a risk it will pass. Even then, their first choice would likely be to try to put selective pressure on enough people to just barely stop it. Why? Because the appearance of such freedom to oppose them provides ammunition for their supporters against the worst claims made about them, and limits the whispers about NSA interference. They presumably also realise that a lot of people voting for such a bill don't really care, and will forget about the issue soon enough, while pressure might make people care. Deeply.

2. Even if it had passed, the article and others demonstrates that the NSA have in the past shown willingness to do everything from blatantly ignoring the law, to have executive orders passed to legalise activities Congress have not approved of, so there is little incentive to apply broad, gross pressure even when facing the threat of bills targeting them.

3. Timing. They may very well believe that accepting curtailment in the short term given the post-Snowden climate is a better way of riding out the storm. Easier to apply "gentle pressure" once the storm has passed, to quietly expand their legal headroom again.

This means I also think koops is somewhat wrong: Most politicians probably don't fear the NSA all that much, because the NSA have had no reason to make the politicians fear them. They're not backed up against the wall, facing the threat of legal action or being shut down. Broadly applied fear is dangerous because it risks creating broad opposition of people who are united in fear of what has made itself a common enemy.

Even if fear becomes their only weapon, NSA only needs to make the right politicians fear them to stop bills, or get executive orders passed. Whether they have, or if they're simply so confident in their effective immunity against actually following decisions from Congress is another matter.
You mean like cloud seeding (please note that there are drawbacks with this method)? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

Personally, it makes sense to me to try and move water from the oceans through pipelines, even if the desalination process might be costly, as judging by the extent of the droughts this isn't something you can expect rainfall to fix any time soon.
Firstly, that looks like text from the UDHR. Any method will do well on the text that it was trained on, so that will not be representative of real world performance. Secondly, any method will do well on longer passages. If you want to do a more real world test you should pick sentences from an independent source (e.g. wikipedia).
Magic Data Goggles
Here's the link to their YouTube video since the site seems to be down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuaCBK1spjU
There are two answers I have to that.

First, scaling often involves some things that feel unnecessary or inefficient

Second, once you have a messaging system, you find lots of good use cases for it (other kinds of notifications, logs, statistics, integration with other systems, ...).
Encryption comes with overhead of some sort, this far, it's not worth it. (Apparently)
I am using IDOL OnDemand which gives good results too.
Soil Doctors Hit Pay Dirt in Manhattan's Central Park
Copenhagen's startups put $150,000 into grassroots community building
My Applied Math curriculum (roughly):

- Logic of Compound/Quantitative statements.

- Elementary Number Theory and Proof Methods

- Sequences and Mathematical Induction

- Graphs/Tree/Set theory

- Algorithms

- Functions and Application
Sure, but that means that the title is more misleading, while the other explanation is more confusing. Confusing and misleading aren't the same thing.
Heat- and booze-tolerant yeast make more biofuels
if you believe that non-profit universities in the US in any way behave as actual non-profit institutions, I have a course on bridge-building to sell you
I know for a fact that there was a source disclosure MySQL injection bug on many of the pages in SR.

There was also other MySQL Injection bugs. You could even look through the SR forum archive and find people talking about how the search field at one point was exploitable by the standard "' or 'a'='a" and was disclosing customer's names and addresses.
The idea is simple, but it doesn't make it any less ingenious.

A hardware token that transmits its location on demand, so obvious and so immediately useful. I think the question of adoption will boil down to whether this can be used in a completely private mode. That is if notification can be routed to a specified list of people only. If this is doable, it can easily become a must-have accessory for children and elderly, but especially for children.
Celebs whose nude photos were stolen threaten Google with $100M lawsuit
Cold-war vet here too. My supervisor was on a two-man team, charged with moving COMSEC material. He and the other NCO took this very seriously, each of them keeping a hand on the sealed container. They'd get someone from base motorpool to drive them around in a van, since the leadership didn't want either of the couriers to be the driver (one of them would have had to let go of the container, and would have been out of sight of the other as they went around to the driver's seat), and the leadership didn't want anyone who had regular contact with either of them to be the driver either (I couldn't have done it, for example).

When I read about what's been happening with the missile crews and the B-52 aircrew not knowing they had a white one on board (and then leaving it parked unguarded overnight) -- that's really concerning. In the days of SAC, there would have been a new commanding officer in place by the end of the day. The current command system for controlling the weapons is too fragmented, and it seems to be regarded as "business as usual". Complacency is not something you want around these things.
Give them a chance. It's a very good idea. I see this potentially saving lives. It's like a private-sector freelancer-opened panic button. The mere fact of people arriving running to the scene is a deterrent.
I'm not a starry eyed idealist (most of the time) to think everyone can hold hands and bring peace to the world, but there has to be a peaceful resolution to this somehow.

A civil war is the absolute worst thing that can happen now as that will only bring unimaginable misery and horror to those who are already suffering on all sides of this conflict. Those who stand to profit the most, both politically and economically, will stand clear while shouting the loudest as usual while the most vulnerable and least inclined to commit violence will get caught in the fire.
It is not a money reward
The Price of Music
I just want to point out that the real issue then and these days, is the potential compromise of the DoJ. In my mind, the level the 3 letters have risen to in the beltway and across the nation fundamentally undermines the justice system, and that includes SCOTUS. I don't know how much of the lack of will to prosecute is incompetence (Hanlon's razor), fear of bribery, blackmail, loss of financial gain or loss of power/position, though I have my ideas about how to find these things out, the bottom line is that the system doesn't work properly.

I am a USMC Iraq combat vet (most of my time was during the "surge"). I spent most of my years since I got out trying to follow the strands up the chain to figure out what went wrong, and quite frankly, every single branch of government, including the fourth estate, has been compromised by the security state aka the military congressional corporate industrial complex. The executive is compromised, justice is compromised, the legislative is compromised.

Nobody wanted to hear my rants on the NSA pre-Snowden. Now they don't want to hear me explain the why, and get too caught up in the how.

My real problem is that none of these concerns are being addressed in any meaningful way by any of the people at the top. If the transition from nation-state security matters to single-actor threats is as insidious as the security apparatus purports it to be, they should explain their logic. So far though, it seems they have decided to undermine in a very conscious manner the constitution of the United States of America, without so much as notifying the American public.
Looking at it again, you're right. Its definitely from the case files.
I used to ride Amtrak from Chicago to KC. But because the track deteriorated so badly they starting putting the passengers on buses. What was the point of buying a train ticket?
I am not sure it could work, people probably won't bother reacting to the help call or at the other extreme, a mob without control will form, but it is interesting because it is capturing both the gamification and isolation trends of our current time.

In an Ingress word, they should create leader boards to find out who is the best vigilante in a given city.

To their benefit I should add they are trying to tackle, maybe awkwardly, a complex issue.
Looks to me like they're just using Kali. Not that surprising, for someone doing that type of work.
It's the answer to "pun intended?"
I don't understand why there seems to be a languages/math dichotomy. I remember in school teachers used to bucket people in one or the other.

But from what I can tell, and also from the article, they have a lot of common ground. Learning either requires understanding of structure, but also a fair bit of memorization. Learning conjugations by heart is not all the different to learning trig relations. You also need both on the fly when you're using your language/calculus.
DC<->NYC/Boston is actually not bad (Acela or not). A lot more businessfolk so it's kept up more nicely. If you get there early enough you can get on the "Quiet" car. People are serious as shit about the "Quiet" car. Business class is pretty nice too (and surprisingly affordable).
Isn't the core of the problem the fact that a) climate change is a reality, and b) farmers use water in an unsustainable way?
Thanks! Currently, the UDHRs are crawled, and I’d rather not include exceptions and maintain their plain-text and XML/JSON versions by hand. If you’re into growing the language, I suggest contacting the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the UN, and the Unicode project, or fork wooorm/udhr and add support, I’ll merge :)
Is that a fact? I don't think that's a fact.
So many great lines in this one:
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(yes, you can get by with 64 GB, but at least with my Windows installs I find that I have to think about disk space with 64 GB, whereas with 128 GB I don't have to worry -- ever. Don't make me think, man!) "

"Memory? Dirt cheap, and average users won't need more than 2 gigabytes of the stuff in practical use"

Not a criticism, since obviously that was written in 2010, but I find that with 128GB I definitely have to think about where I'm putting stuff. This is especially the case for software which steadfastly refuses to be installed anywhere but the system drive (looking at you, Visual Studio).
I agree. I think, however, we can forgive chton for not parsing out the best word for "kind of badness" prior to our semantic discussion. (If we are to be charitable in understanding his/her comment, then we should assume "kind of badness" was the intent.)

For the record, I greatly prefer confusing to misleading. I would rather people have an incomplete understanding than an incorrect one.
Ask HN: What should be the right mindset while learning and studying?
I am a college student, and I face lots of study challenges. I think maybe the wrong mindset is the reason, I am not able to excel my studies.
I only see the one, but someone posted condoning murdering "bad people" right after you posted this.
Lecture 4 Notes – How to Start a Startup
Going Reactive: Scalable, Highly Concurrent and Fault-Tolerant Systems
Ubiquiti was linked here a little while ago http://www.ubnt.com/broadband Their point-to-point wireless can travel a fair distance, but I don't know how resilient it can be. Something similar that is resistant to jamming (possibly frequency hopping, spread-spectrum) might be what's needed to bridge the gap to the wider internet.

Of course, any emanating signal strong enough may attract fire as well, so local communication may be limited to mesh networks similar to what's being used now during the Hong Kong protests.
That isn't a security issue.

If you have access to the encrypted DropBox cache you likely also have access to the raw files themselves (via both DropBox and the File System) and also have the meta data stored elsewhere (e.g. filesystem, backups, restore points, et al).

The fact that DropBox even encrypts that is "cute." The fact they encrypt it using the LSASS makes it almost worth while (almost). But realistically there are very few scenarios outside of computer forensics where this kind of thing is useful to someone.

The reason it is useful to them is: They may not have a warrant for your DropBox (but do have your computer in their possession). The files are deleted locally but on DropBox, so they can leverage the cache to get a warrant for DropBox.

As a note tons of other stuff caches meta data within unencrypted SQLite databases such as Skype, Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird, et al. It isn't a security issue there either as your user is meant to have access to this (just as with DropBox).