skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, I know someone who runs a cocktail bar called the Manhattans Project - http://manhattansproject.com/

He's also a developer and physics geek, so a lot of the drinks end up with fantastic nuclear program puns.

The FatManhattan etc.

If you're in London, UK, you should definitely join his mailing list and go along to an event (they happen every month or so).
The Checky Technique: Building an app to promote an app
Indeed. Here is a short piece on T-Mobile's IPv6 rollout.

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-stud...
I had written something similar but you put it much more succinctly. The only things I'd add to this explanation

1) Democracy is the US rallying cry, our allies are more defensible when we do so in the name of democracy.

2) The powers that be are highly adept at manipulating a voting population so making an ally a democracy will likely turn it into a predictable/manipulable Plutocracy of sorts.

*fixed implication that India wasn't a Democracy, was simply stating a motive for the "Democratic" part of "Democratic Power"
There's nothing in the USB spec that requires an internal processor at all. USB is a wire protocol only. Obviously it happens that complicated wire protocols are most sanely implemented in software, so most devices have CPUs and firmware. But that's a fact of engineering expedience and not spec compliance.
Many, many, many systems (like CDNs, or high-profile financial firms) depend mostly on IP whitelisting for their public-facing origin security. Whenever there's "partners" or "3rd parties" that need access to some service but they want to generally keep people from the internet off it, they just get lazy and IP whitelist instead of creating a VPN like they should. There's probably tens of thousands of organizations with setups like this.
Jason Santa Maria's new book from A Book Apart, On Web Typography, helped me as a non designer really understand good typography. I still cannot necessarily create good typography like the masters but I can now recognize it.

http://www.abookapart.com/products/on-web-typography
"Safe" ? What do you mean?
Our (Ericsson Research) view:

1. Agreed. That headline was not written by us.
2. The reason for having another impl. is not the lack of native app support in Google's implementation. Rather, you should read it as one of the motivations for developing OpenWebRTC in the first place.
Currently Reading:

Annals of the Former World - John McPhee
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78.Annals_of_the_Former_...

My Years with GM - Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275912.My_Years_with_Gene...
Why so many Wired Magazine articles lately?
I don't think that promoting doing good works. It seems that bad things are much easier to promote these days. I don't believe in it anymore.

Children are safe bet in that regards (if you failed - means you just passed your failureness to them, good)
I think having the AI to accomplish that would be the really interesting bit. That makes a lot more technological advancements possible. And yes, this is just finding new applications for the web and expanding its value/reach.
There's some misunderstanding - the student loans in Finland and a few other places are only for student living expenses (food/rent/beer/whatever) during the studies so that they don't have to work to support themselves during studies; they do not affect the budget of universities in any way.

If the university finances are decoupled from student ability to pay, then loan availability doesn't distort the education institutions, but instead mainly affects the lifestyle of students and their families.
On my current system, Konqueror renders quite like the Chrome screenshot that I posted earlier. Firefox is much lighter.

Thanks to your samples, I think I can tweak knobs on my system to render better.

Edit: Yup, my infinality has a setting that it calls "MacIsh". Switching to that made the webpage a bit more bearable: https://imgur.com/na1gTwC
Good points, but you didn't actually answer the question.

Will you reject pull requests that compete with Pro features?
Getting university and government grants requires a great deal of gaming the system. I'd say governments and academia also attract gamers of the system moreso than startup world (indeed, that is a point that pg makes).

I can't speak of "most interesting", I can only speak of what I've worked on :-)
I get the sense that you're approaching this as "neither system is perfect, so they are equivalent"?

In other words, since you could get shot by a cop in the US even though you did nothing wrong, that means American is no better than ISIS who massacres thousands of innocent civilians?

I would argue there are real, important differences in the points you called out as equivalent (or near-equivalent).
Read:
A short history of nearly everything. - Bill Bryson

Bought, but yet not read :
My Struggle: Book 1 - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Reading:

Cadilllac Desert: The American West and it's Disappearing Water - Mark Reisner

Year Zero: A Novel - Rob Reid
Here's a list of things that might make you question the good-will of the Olympics:

http://www.businessinsider.com/finances-of-the-ioc-2012-8?op...
Down for me.

Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6h861Hp...

Meat of the article:

The model of multiple targets and an imbalance in signaling runs contrary to the popular dogma that Alzheimer’s is a disease of toxicity, caused by the accumulation of sticky plaques in the brain. Bredesen believes the amyloid beta peptide, the source of the plaques, has a normal function in the brain – as part of a larger set of molecules that promotes signals that cause nerve connections to lapse. Thus the increase in the peptide that occurs in Alzheimer’s disease shifts the memory-making vs. memory-breaking balance in favor of memory loss.

Given all this, Bredesen thought that rather than a single targeted agent, the solution might be a systems type approach, the kind that is in line with the approach taken with other chronic illnesses—a multiple-component system.

...

(1) eliminating all simple carbohydrates, leading to a weight loss of 20 pounds;

(2) eliminating gluten and processed food from her diet, with increased vegetables, fruits, and non-farmed fish;

(3) to reduce stress, she began yoga;

(4) as a second measure to reduce the stress of her job, she began to meditate for 20 minutes twice per day;

(5) she took melatonin each night;

(6) she increased her sleep from 4-5 hours per night to 7-8 hours per night; (7) she took methylcobalamin each day;

(8) she took vitamin D3 each day;
(9) fish oil each day;

(10) CoQ10 each day;

(11) she optimized her oral hygiene using an electric flosser and electric toothbrush;

(12) following discussion with her primary care provider, she reinstated hormone replacement therapy that had been discontinued;

(13) she fasted for a minimum of 12 hours between dinner and breakfast, and for a minimum of three hours between dinner and bedtime;

(14) she exercised for a minimum of 30 minutes, 4-6 days per week.

The results for nine of the 10 patients reported in the paper suggest that memory loss may be reversed, and improvement sustained with this therapeutic program, said Bredesen. “This is the first successful demonstration,” he noted, but he cautioned that the results are anecdotal, and therefore a more extensive, controlled clinical trial is needed.
I feel there's some truth in this:

>Taking a merely professional view of the workplace, in which free agents check in and out on a transactional basis, is worse than cold: It’s not even rational. Since time is your most valuable asset, it’s odd to spend it working with people who don’t envision any long‑term future together.

Given the choice of an absolute top performer who takes the view mentioned above, vs a some degrees worse performer who is excited and passionate, I'd prefer to work with the second person every time.

I'm not a part of SV or its culture, either.
It was probably a terrible mistake to try to seek answers on a forum regarding political matters. Apologies.

I would argue there are real, important differences in the points you called out as equivalent (or near-equivalent).

Which points did I say were equivalent? I said no such thing. I was saying, "I have no clue what I'm talking about, and I have no clue what life in China is like, so please correct me."

But since I've said that multiple times and it's still not getting across, I think it's better for HN if everyone would just ignore my chain of comments.
I visit reddit a lot. Besides the "You broke reddit" message mentioned by ColinCera there's a page with a blue background that says reddit is down. Pretty sure I saw it in this week if not the last 24 hours.
At 17, Setting Off Protests That Roil Hong Kong
Currently Reading:

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721966-good-strategy-b...
Perhaps some kind of time lapse would solve that problem. The USB won't execute anything for x minutes while you inspect what it is really doing (if it's your keyboard or mouse, do nothing). If nothing is done, allow the USB to load its drivers, etc...
>Desdyni

That is the ugliest project name I've ever seen. It beats any disemvoweled SV startup into a cocked hat. I'm not surprised it almost got cancelled.
I hate to point out the blindly obvious, but what if you need the HID device to click on the box? So now you are stuck in a chicken/egg conundrum. You need the HID to click the box but the HID isn't installed until you click the box, great!

Unfortunately without going back to Windows 95-esk "please restart to install this keyboard" world, I cannot see how you fix this. Even blackholing some input from the HID is only at best a temp' solution (as they'd just add longer and longer sleeps before fake HID input was generated).

I guess you could redirect all HID input to a certain context (like a Virtual Desktop e.g. UAC prompt) until the user accepts it. However realistically most users would ignore this warning and just click "install" without reading it or understanding the implications.
People and businesses are paying money - sometimes a great deal of money - for smart devices. That's a pretty good indication that they want them.
That circles back to the same problem, then, doesn't it? One would is now essentially looking for less ambitious, bootstrap-able ideas, as opposed to doing interesting things and seeing what comes out -- whether or not it's bootstrap-able or not.

Of course many natural-going ideas are also amenable to being bootstrapped (software development tools/services would probably be a good example), but key here is ideas that naturally arise from your area of expertise.
I think you're in the minority. It's fairly common to hear someone say "USB" in place of "USB flash drive". Especially when it's used in plural, "USBs", it's hard to be confused about what they're referring to.
How History Forgot Its Role in Public Debate
> The commit was made in May 2014. It was applied to the Ubuntu trusty kernel tree in June 2014. There was no mention of the security implications of the bug in the commit message, or elsewhere, so far as we can tell.

Linus did mention his policy on this [1].

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, pageexec <at> freemail.hu wrote:
>
> by 'cover up' i meant that even when you know better, you quite
> consciously do *not* report the security impact of said bugs

Yes. Because the only place I consider appropriate is the kernel
changelogs, and since those get published with the sources, there is no
way I can convince myself that it's a good idea to say "Hey script
kiddies, try this" unless it's already very public indeed.

He also talked about this recently at debconf14 [2].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/701694/focus=7069...

[2] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/...
I think one of the distinctions is that for bootstrapping you can start with something (very) small and end with something big over a long period of time. Whereas when you take on venture capital the expectation is to build something very big very fast.

The latter requires more capital to expedite the ROI for the VC whereas the former is typically a much slower, organic process that may not reach an equivalent scale for 10+ years. I'm a firm proponent of bootstrapping and organic growth. After a few years of positive cashflow and growth you can walk into a commercial bank (gasp!) and setup revolving lines of credit or expansion capital to fund more growth.
The ROI of Blogging: What the Groove Blog Is Worth to Our Startup
I just have to add Sleep(60 minutes) to my fake HID device and it will bypass this. You cannot blackhole HID input for an hour.
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 (John Toland)

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Alfred Lansing)

Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War (Richard Holmes)

NB A book that I read recently that I wasn't expecting to like very much but really enjoyed was "A Fortunate Life: The Autobiography of Paddy Ashdown" - to say that he's had an eventful life is a bit of an understatement (Royal Marines, SBS, MI6, politics) - he actually comes across as a politician with strongly held morals - shame I can't vote for him!
We generally offer compensation that is competitive in your location, so yes, we do differentiate. I've never been part of a compensation decision outside of the US, so I don't know what that ultimately looks like in Eastern Europe or India.
That feel when you open up HN and the top post is about some new CVE. Being a sysadmin isn't fun these days.
> I hate printers, because they all suck

Yeah. This is a topic for a completely separate thread, but I have to say this: I FUCKING HATE printers. From jamming hardware, through broken driver issues to all the shenanigans printer companies do (especially with inkjets).
Evidence-Based Technical Analysis - David Aronson ; Chapters 4 and 5 give a very accessible explanation of statistical inference through the use of sampling distributions. It's an excellent book.
Would I reject PRs? Quite possibly; that seems super passive-aggressive to me. It would be more polite to open an issue first and discuss the situation.
In addition to the oft-cited deployment story, I think another reason for PHP's success is that it's the only major language specifically created as a DSL for rendering web pages. Once you're accustomed to having its baked-in toolset for web-related tasks, having to constantly hunt for the right third-party library in a general-purpose language like Ruby or Python becomes a major drag coefficient, even if those languages are objectively better in all other respects.
I visited the DMZ in the summer of 2013 and the militarization was astonishing. Beyond the military checkpoints, soldiers everywhere, secret tunnels dug from the north into the south, and relics of past failed relationships such as a bullet riddled locomotive, the signs along every non-paved spot of earth warning "DANGER MINES" and the overpasses rigged to detonate and drop immense concrete blocks onto the roadways (to prevent passage by invading tanks) really brought home the feeling that the two states were still at war. Not to mention having to sign a hefty waiver to visit the Joint Security Area for any injury or death that we could incur if North Korea decided to attack us while on the tour. We also had a surprise at the Joint Security Area when a tour of several dozen military officers on the north side appeared and stared back at us while we took photos of them and a semi-hidden photographer on the north took photos of all of us tourists to potentially use as propaganda.
Everything you need to make a perfect (stress-free) hire
That thought pattern doesn't alarm you a little bit?
Hired Sets Its Sights on Los Angeles Tech Talent Boom
Read: "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson

Currently reading:

"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel

"Discover Meteor: Building Real-Time JavaScript Web Apps" by Tom Coleman & Sacha Greif

Reading next:

"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson

Overall, I like Isaacson's writing style, and for someone with a non-scientific background, did a pretty good job at describing physical concepts such as a relativity and space-time.

It was exciting to read his bio on Steve Jobs the day it came out, but in retrospect seemed to lack depth. I'm not sure if I learned anything new about him as a person, than just someone following Apple and his career over the years.
Every headline in this article pissed me off.

Every paragraph in this article actually contained solid advice, even though I don't agree with all of it.

So I would like to add rule #5: Don't talk in ludicrous hyperbole. Smart people won't take you seriously, and you'll actually attract the kind of feeble minded people that would join a real cult.
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We are currently hiring two roles to round out our baller team:

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If you're able to work on-site, full time in Santa Monica please follow the above links for job details and to apply online.

⚑ ⚛ PLEASE No recruiters, agencies, off-shore development companies. ⚛ ⚑
Please don't, I've worked at these kinds of companies. It's creepy as hell and will drive away good employees who just aren't willing to buy into the nonsense.
Online Linear Regression Using a Kalman Filter
Aren't NASA-level standards historically slow and inefficient? I was of the impression that private parties streamlining that process and coming up with a cheaper program is what led to NASA (or congress by proxy, whatever) abandoning manned spaceflight to the private sector.

In other words, maybe India is taking a leaf from SpaceX's book rather than NASA's
Building a DGA Classifer: Feature Engineering (i.e. “finding bad domains”)
Currently engaged in:

-The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell. Just a fun read. Fiction sucks me in pretty easily, and I enjoy the time-hopping.

-Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis - Cheryl Colopy. Not enjoying this as much as I thought I would so far, possibly because I have too much academic experience in the topic area and the writer is a reporter. I'm a bit more pragmatic about large energy projects, not exactly bleeding heart, but I try to focus on the bigger picture. It was a free book on a table at work though from someone cleaning out their office, so not a big deal.

-Operations Research - Hillier and Lieberman. Also a free book from work. Something I need a stronger foundation in for upcoming projects.

Perpetual Backburner

-Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace. I've gotten a couple hundred pages in a few times. If I get distracted at all it's so hard to go back to.

-Capital in the 21st Century - Piketty. I blazed through the first couple hundred pages around when it came out, then I went on a long vacation. Now I sort of nibble at it when I'm in the mood. One of the most compelling economics books I've ever read.

Recently finished

-The Book of Basketball - Bill Simmons. Fun to read about the history of the NBA from a true fanatic. Eyes glazed over in some sections on the Celtics though.
We did? Best source for that?
Oh, now iBeacons(https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/) will make more sense. Let's implement iBeacons to vending machines and also to other machines, then use Pushmote(https://pushmote.com) to manage interactions from cloud and import Pushmote SDK into operating systems or Chrome natively. Sounds great. :)
Because it's not just USB flash drives. Any device, a cell phone, a mouse, a webcam, anything that connects via usb, could essentially connect as a USB HID (human input device) and start issuing commands on the computer as if it were a human. But that's not the only thing it could do. You should read the article.
cmake is a replacement for the autotools suite, not make itself. You're right that it can be tricky to use.

One advantage cmake has is that you can tell it to emit files for ninja instead of traditional Makefiles. ninja is very well optimized for the problem of parallel building.
Strangely enough, this is also true of religious cults.
Currently read and recently read, in no particular order:

Modern C++ Design (Andrei Alexandrescu)

The Screenwriter's Bible (David Trottier)

Clean Code (Robert Cecil Martin)

Il Codice da Vinci (Dan Brown)

The Anatomy of Story (John Truby)

A Random Walk Down Wall Street (Burton Malkiel)

The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg)
I changed my username, but the URL changed, but it kept showing the old one and is giving some errors like "cannot load files", etc.
> That's just a bad argument

It's not my only argument. Here's what I wrote on the blog's own comments:

> I agree with your points, but picking this line as an example of the language’s problems

> is a bit of a straw man:

>

> “while ( ($filename = readdir($dh)) == true) $files[] = $filename;”

>

> Code like this smells terribly.

>

> First of all it uses “==”. That operator should trigger a deprecated warning, since it’s

> never appropriate. Even if you want the coercion, it’s better to write it explicitly with

> things like (int) or intval().

>

> Next, it’s using “== true”, which is completely redundant since the “while” will interpret

> the value as a boolean anyway.

>

> Next, it’s performing assignment inside a condition, which is generally frowned upon.

> There’s potential to confuse “=” with “==” or “===”, it’s using a statement in the place of

> an expression and it performs side-effects (setting the $filename value).

>

> After all that, it’s just duplicating existing functionality anyway: you could just say

> $files = scandir($dh).
I'm not disparaging the quality of India's space program. I'm more saying that once you bring NASA into the picture there's the potential of inheriting 70 years worth of engineering requirements and process which could be detrimental to a fledgling space program.

Edit: And you added the "NASA-level" which put words in my mouth that I did not say nor mean. I meant what I said: "NASA's standards"; standards that NASA has developed for their programs and contractors, which may or may not be beneficial for India's space program.
Yes, you're right - I've done some more research on the github site, and figured out how they do it. The burner image can be sent to RAM over USB, to cause the microcontroller to boot from it. Then, that burner is used to flash the malicous firmware image.
Analysis of Personal Evernote Data
10 “in console” nintendo games, what's your favorite?
Interesting answer, thank you for writing it.

As an armchair quarterback I'm a bit surprised about what you've said about "folks with a dev background" (if I didn't focus on distributed systems, I'd likely focus on development tools/services -- and there are tons of bootstrapped companies in that area), but I'll take your word for it.
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Very similar style to Infinite Jest, but the story seems much more sinister.
Currently reading:
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - Walter Lewin
Reading the page, the comments here and all... I can't stop thinking Firefox OS... just... can't...
What is the performance, does it bypass the kernel for the network stack or it's just a linux bundled with compatible hardware?
That's not how this works.

The device acts like a USB hub which happens to mount both a keyboard and a USB drive.

So unless you ban all USB hubs then this isn't workable.
Just finished:
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

Now reading:
Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesen

Been on a travel themed binge the last few weeks, rereading my favorite travel books. I highly recommend Arabian Sands, gives a pretty unique view of how the Arabian Peninsula was changing right after WWII.