skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why they didn't choose this path. A trade off for better usability ? Why would an app break it's core promise to offer better usability ?
Overall, I find the Hovding more comfortable than a regular helmet. The main downside is that my neck gets a bit hot when I wear it. I guess this is because the Hovding prevents the usual cooling airflow to the neck, and the black color makes it more effective at absorbing heat from the sun.
NSA Operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report [video]
Posting GitLab Activity to Slack: A Simple Morph Use Case
I tried to find a year for which $0.02 in today's money today would be approximately $10, but it turned out that you'd have to start somewhere in the middle ages, and the error bars get pretty large.
ooops ;) i should have read the article which says it all as it is by the author.
Thanks for pointing that out, I upvoted you.
ehmmm, well that's what the article by the same author says which i did not read before posting this ;)
It's also not difficult to bypass the app completely and poll the service from another program (for instance, run by cron on a server). Like other people have said, the entire premise is flawed.
Sorry for my bad English.

Does this sound better:

"Linux distribution is a well-tested collection of packages that are carefully organized and
supported by the vendor."
> I wish pretty much every damned site in existence rendered as on Readability.

Yeah, my partially completed blog platform (who doesn't have one of those somewhere) uses pretty much exactly that design.
I actually meant a terminal tab (I'm using Tilda as terminal emulator). I'm only really using the web-based notebook interface when I need to display graphics for something.
There is nothing damaging in these latest documents. The documents reference programs that if revealed (which they were not) would be extremely harmful to national security.
The thing is I wouldn't be alive without bicycle helmet. Same goes to my aunt. So what if I get concussions if the alternative is loosing consciousness and getting driven over by a car.
Actually you could just download the encrypted images without the unique key( for every image ) and then get the key on demand. Load the image into ram, decrypt, show the image and then erase everything.
About 8 or 9 months ago, they reduced the 3-lane thoroughfare through my part of town to 2-lanes with a bike lane, and narrowed the lanes to about 10 feet. People slowed down at first, but now people go just as fast as they used to, typically 5-10MPH over the speed limit, and some 15 MPH over (that's 50MPH). The radar signs installed as part of the project always read 40, 42, 45 and not just for my car.

As a cyclist, the bike lanes don't really make me feel safer. There is a good margin of space between the bike lane and the car lane, but the bike lanes are really only in effect for half of any given block. The second half of the block, the line between the car/bike lanes is dotted, and cars can legally enter the bike lane, to make right turns. And then of course, anyone parallel parking on the street has to cross the bike lane to do so.

Making the lanes narrower did not make pedestrian crossings any safer, as the road is actually the same width, and you still have to travel the same distance to cross the street. What did make it safer for pedestrians, the installation of flashing yellow warning lights at certain crosswalks, that pedestrians can turn on before crossing the street. Motorists see them and stop for people crossing, and that is a new and welcome effect.

The bike lanes would have been much MUCH better implemented one block south of the main drag on a residential street that runs parallel. Much safer for cyclists. Healthier too, not having to breath as much vehicle exhaust. And probably a more optimal allocation of resources for the citizens. As much as everyone wants to be PC and become friendly advocates of human-powered transport, it really doesn't make sense in this part of town, to increase trip times and emissions for thousands of motorists daily, so the 50 people who choose to ride their bike can have a marginally safer lane to ride in. In Downtown L.A., it is completely different. Downtown, the bike lanes make sense because hundreds if not thousands of people use them. You always see a bike in the bike lane over there. But outside of the heart of the city, many people commute to work and carpool their kids to school and ballet and such. They're not going to ride bikes 5 hours a day to make that kind of commute.

Oh, and where the traffic engineers failed to account for, and accommodate heavy traffic on a couple of heavily-traveled segments of the road, motorists now drive their cars illegally in the bike lanes during periods of congestion.

IMO the project is mostly a failure. The safer pedestrian crossings are a great improvement. But the bike lanes such as they are, and the narrower lanes, just a waste of money. Putting the bike lanes on a side street would have been really great, a win-win for both cyclists and motorists.
> global cyber intelligence war

I'm really starting to take an issue with declaring all this stuff as "cyber war" or "cyber warfare" (here and everywhere else in this thread). It's not a war if there is no intend of actually killing people. Even something as intense as the "cold war", had the qualifier cold in it, because there was no open confrontation. And what is now summarized as cyber (intelligence) warfare is orders of magnitude less deadly (though not necessarily less damaging to our civil rights). It's not a war if I steal your trade secrets and undermine your negotiation positions in international treaties.

If you frame it as a "war" you get a whole different solution space. Instead of strengthening the IT security of domestic companies that build your core infrastructure you end up with "offense is the best defense" strategies and undermine the IT security of everyone. If you stop using war rhetoric this kind of statement:

> If you didn't see it, there's a link on another branch of the conversation containing (at least) 37 other countries involved in cyber [espionage].

becomes far less of an existential threat.
As you point out, the task is futile; I'd be inclined to have a higher opinion of an engineer that realized this.

It's not exactly good marketing, though.
it's actually got a lot of problems with it. Preferring strong bonds to weak ones is enthalpy. Entropy is (roughly) "preferring to make m product molecules over n molecules when m > n because the combinatorics of their positions is bigger"

Energy is the total sum of the Entropic and Enthalpic components. (entropy takes a negative sign because more entropy is preferred; less enthalpy is preferred)

The text also doesn't explain what makes for high vs low energy. I'll try to explain this.

An electron is a wave. Two rules to remember: 1) a wave has higher energy when it has more nodes. 2) electrons have higher energy when it spends time 'away' from positive charge. The shapes of these waves are constrained by quantum mechanical rules, but generally speaking a 'higher energy' bond has either more nodes or has more density away from the nuclei.
Every city I've visited that has an extensive skyway system is also a city that gets severe winter weather. The skyway is not so much about protecting pedestrians from cars, and more about protecting them from the weather.
That would be more secure, but you still need to wait for the key to be downloaded on-demand - you don't exactly get butter-smooth scrolling that way.

(I like security.)
Yes, but the army is using directional explosives to solve that issue. I'm not sure that would work for a cyclist.
What does this give you over using NixOS?
Winnipeg has central Canadian weather, going down to -40 celsius wind chill. Brr. Skyways and subway walks are about the only way to go for pedestrian access in a city where the climate for half the year threatens hypothermia within ten minutes of exposure to surface temperatures.

In contrast, I live in Edinburgh. The all-time high temperature was around 30 celsius, but it only drops below freezing at night during a couple of months. The city predates the automobile; as a result, unless you move out to the suburbs, it's entirely walkable. And guess what? The Council is currently holding a consultation on a blanket reduction in the vehicle speed limit to 20mph except on designated high-volume routes.
Formerly, the world's oldest tree. :-(
Snowden Doc 'Citizenfour' Reveals Existence of Second NSA Whistleblower
Not giving much more information but here's a more reliable source:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/11/second-leaker...
The end of Snapchat?

I cannot understand people who confide their privacy to companies like Apple and Snapchat. Of course their photos will be 'leaked'. It's just a matter of time.
I think you're attributing too much of Dropbox's success to simple technical reliability. It really isn't that difficult a problem, and many services and projects do it right. I have an rsync script that has been syncing my files reliably to an offsite location for 6 years.

It's certain that Dropbox has a high quality syncing service, but there are other factors. Think, for example, how this case was handled: a fault in their core product, a breach of user trust in their service, and they understood that it needed more than a technical solution. None of this was part of their core sync reliability: it was part of a more broad quality, which is closer to their true reason for success.
You might be interested in the UAV Challenge:

http://www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/
It is so great that video looks completely normal to me. Dutch cities and towns are full of bikes. It's the best way of transportation. Clean and healthy. I have no car, just a bike and I always take public transport or bike. Sometimes I'll rent a car. Rain and wind are rarely an issue. I can recommend anyone to aim to live in place where biking is safe and easy. It adds daily fun to your life.
NixOS is aiming for the same goal, I believe. NixOS is built on top of different package manager, Nix.

With aptly you're still using your favorite Debian/Ubuntu distro, installing packages with apt-get and so on.
And you would have to be connected to the internet. That is a problem. The delay could be hidden behind a ui.
That might be one of the mistakes, but it isn't the start of the problem. Tangibly, it's either United States v. Microsoft Corporation or Longhorn / Vista.

Intangibly, it's the attitude that permeated the company that said "we are right because we are Microsoft." There were few people you could talk to who'd think you had anything to offer someone who worked at Microsoft. You still see this today around products like Bing, IE, Xbox and Azure (I know the last 2 are popular, but the xbox has been a loss leader (and what it's leading too isn't clear yet) and Azure, like everyone else, is being crushed by Amazon (it really is, they spend a ton more money and get a fraction of the market (that's Bing-style success!))

I remember a story from the only time I was on their campus. An employee (I remember his name) was telling me how they wanted to make IIS great, so they hired an expert Apache consultant to learn more about apache. I'm listening, thinking "wow, this is great, they're really interested in bettering themselves." He then proudly went on to tell me how the Apache expert had an amusingly outdated understanding of IIS and by the end of the gig they'd convinced him of how great IIS was. They'd literally rather pay people to tell them how great they are, then admit they might have something to learn.

This perfectly encapsulated my time as a .NET developer. Lucky this was at the start of an MVP conference, so I took the hint, skipped most of the conference and visited Seattle (oh, but I did attend 1 talk where the speaker said Visual Studio would add a color picker and people applauded him).
Urg, O2 is actually a very bad example, because it's actually 'O-O' (where the ticks are radicals), this is called "triplet" oxygen. In the ground state it's a single bonded O2 with two free, unpaired electrons. There is "singlet" oxygen which is typically depicted as O=O, but it's actually O triple-bond O with two antibonding electrons that negate one of the 'triple' bonds which makes it effectively O=O but very different in reality.
New paper helmets help prevent concussions because they have a crumple zone that make the deceleration more gradual.

"If you crash at 15 miles per hour in a normal helmet, your head will be subjected to around 220G [G-force], whereas the new design absorbs more of the impact and means you experience around 70G instead," says Surabhi.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25681895
What Is Gamergate, and Why? An Explainer for Non-Geeks
Sleep: When Brain Cells Shrink and Neuro Trash Is Flushed Away (2013)
The NSA has clearly recruited employees from companies like Google, Facebook, Cisco, etc to compromise and place vulnerabilities that the NSA can exploit. The fact that the NSA has decided that the legal channels to acquire data through warrants and actual investigations no longer applies must be stopped.
> I'm no grammar Nazi but

Our author seems to consistently make the same mistake: there's a distinct lack of articles in the writing. Sprinkle some in, and things start to make sense:

> [A] Linux distribution is [a] well-tested collection of packages

> we would like to have [an] internal mirror of [a] package repository

> some packages are missing in [the] official distribution

> we would like to own [a] package repository, that is to have [a] package repository

> There are many tools to create [a] mirror of [the] Debian package repositories

… and so on. At any rate, this consistency suggests (to me, at least) that he's probably not a native English speaker; in fact, the writer is almost certainly Russian. There's a link to a sponsor, which has a Russian phone number, and if you click around enough, you can find his CV quite easily.

Not everyone on the Internet speaks English, however, enough people do that I could easily see it being beneficial to put your content in English. Who knows?
I am fucking James Bond
The missing article at the start of the sentence makes it very hard to decipher if you're talking about Linux distributions in general or a specific one. "A Linux distrubution is ..." is probably what you intended to say, but I'm not sure.
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You might wanna sanitize the room name and username fields.
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San Diego is a huge city in land area, 325 square miles -- 18 miles square. The actual geography is rather more varied than that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#mediaviewer/File:San_...

There are parts of it which are rather other than "beautiful".
I like the concept, but wouldnt it be better to offload deployment/rollbacks to docker?
Just because a street runs parallel doesn't mean it will have all the same intersections or traffic flow as the main street. I don't specifically know the streets you're talking about from any personal experience or map, but I bet the main drag at least has a longer span through town making it an attractive route for many difference commutes by bicycle.
Helmet reduces the side vision to something that feels like 20% less then normal. And yes, I cannot also tolerate any hats, hoods and such.

As for the potential Darwin prize winners with earplugs - this is something that should be a matter of legislation first, not the stupid useless helmets.
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A "Kenyan" has won the Tour de France.
Divided by a common language: why an American won't call you a 'bloody arse'
League of Legends' Profitable World [video]:
No matter how secure they store the photo, at the end the day a simple screenshot makes it all for nothing. It would be cool if Android had some API to disable screenshots.
In Australia there are places ideal for cycling schemes. Neighbourhoods and smaller cities, especially if universities contribute significantly to the population are decent cycling areas. Even big cities like Melbourne have some great bike routes going mostly through green belts. You can get from the 10-20km radius of the centre to ~2-5 from the centre ("inner suburbs like Richmond or Brunswick or Fitzroy, in Melbourne parlance where many people work fairly safely and pleasantly very often.

Many Ozzies cycle recreationally.

Helmet laws are definitely a major impediment to cycling as transport. Distances, and infrastructure issues are an impediment too. It's not Amsterdam where most journeys are <5km on flat roads on cycle lanes, but it could work for more people than it does work for.
It's hard to express how much I want to cheer Arnold for this!
Users, I can understand. Investors should run away.
I perceive that I am much less likely to turn my head (to check the traffic behind me) when I'm wearing a helmet. It's perceptibly less comfortable to do that. I will turn my head if I absolutely need to, but I don't make it a habit. Without a helmet, on the other hand, turning my head to check the road behind me is absolutely habitual.

On this basis and on other points, I believe the helmet causes me far more danger than the helmet protects me from. I am speaking personally: I don't know if this applies to other people and I would personally not dare to use headphones or check texts while cycling.

I obviously will never know for sure if I'm right about this, but generally not wearing a helmet is the decision I believe is correct for me.
The idea being that a) cyclists should fuck off, b) pedestrians deserve no space or protection and c) the burden of mitigating danger needs to be placed on those most vulnerable to it, not those introducing it in the first place (cars).

This is thinking from the 1950s. All of these things have failed dramatically.
Sounds like many of the commenters here did not actually read the article. It's not about "should you wear a helmet or shouldn't you."

It is very strongly pro-helmet. NOWHERE in the article does it suggest you should not wear a helmet.

It's about how to make helmets work better, specifically against concussions. Summary: pay more to get a helmet equipped with something called MIPS.

"The new rotation-­dampening systems may not be perfect, but they are the biggest step forward in decades. The choices cyclists make with their money matter. You can pretend to protect your brain, or you can spend more money and get closer to actually doing it."
We use OneDrive for business at work (I'm not sure it's exactly the same as OneDrive under the hood though) and I can't say I had the same experience.

- There is no Linux/OSX client unlike DropBox (the OSX client only works for OneDrive and not OneDrive for business) so it's unusable with servers or environments with a lot of OSX machines. (so most enterprise usage)

- There is a list of approved file types and if your file is not on the list, it just refuses to sync it. This is really annoying because I need to create zip files all the time to bypass this bug.

- OneDrive modifies certain file types (like word document but also others) to add metadata on it so you never know if the file you are getting is exactly the same as the one you synchronized.

- We experienced bugs in the permission system which destroyed couple of files (thankfully we had backups).

The only positive thing with OneDrive is that it's integrated with Office 365 (it's the equivalent to Google Drive for Gmail) so you can preview files directly within your web browser on Office 365 (when it works because sometimes you just can't).

I would have a choice, I would return to Dropbox without any hesitation.
Just curious, do you work for Microsoft? Last I heard, Azure was doing pretty well, considering Office 365, TFS and a host of other internal services are hosted on it. They seem to be the most formidable competition to AWS right now (and I believe that, I tried all GCE, AWS and Azure over the weekend and while AWS was the best, Azure was a close second while GCE was just slow and buggy).
How about using Nix on Debian/Ubuntu?
Aptly is a repository manager, it works in terms of tightly defined package versions and dependencies.

Docker is for deployment, it works in terms of graphs of filesystem images. The tools do slightly overlap in use case, but they operate in entirely different domains.

It wouldn't be unreasonable to mix both in the same project, but there is no hard rule for when this would be appropriate.
The Little Redis Book [1] might be better. Redis is easier to pick up and probably more useful as it's more complementary to existing database options.

[1] http://openmymind.net/redis.pdf
On the other hand, when you're the engineer maintaining the flight sims for the pilots, boy oh boy can you have fun in those machines :) I've logged over 100 hours on the F-18, and 20 for the F-111. Never got to experience those long high G turns though...
I have an anecdotal evidence to support the [1]: when wearing a green neon west on a motorbike, drivers stop respecting my right of way in Berlin. Probably classifying me as a novice rider (here the driving school students always wear one).
Consider that your brain is an egg yolk floating in a shell. A concussion is the rapid loss of velocity slamming the yolk into the inside of the shell, scrambling it up if you will. A helmet can't do much there except minimize the velocity a tad bit.

The benefit of the helmet is prevent a crack in the shell, your skull, so your brains don't spill out onto the pavement in a crash. It's not perfect, but given your are traveling at high rates of speed on a hard surface, the insurance is your brain mostly intact inside the shell versus a scrambled mess on the ground.

Preventing concussions - the yolk from slamming into the inside of the shell - is a hard problem. The brain is floating in liquid - the cerebrospinal fluid. To take another example, drop a ping pong ball into a glass of water. Now try to move fast without the ball hitting the side of the glass. The amount of padding on the outside of the glass won't do much to prevent the ball from hitting the inside of the glass.

It's not just crashes you need to worry about. Even roller coasters cause concussions, albeit small ones, but still with cognitive decrements.
It's a map, not a graph so there is no y-axis. The colored area represents the size of the army with the gold area being March to Moscow and the black being the retreat. There were two small groups that split from the main thrust. The black are them rejoining the retreat. As you can see you were luck if you were in one of those two groups since they did not get decimated.
Why Do Futurists Always Predict That AI Will Kill Us All?
One of the things I'm saying is that many people don't view physical safety as the end and and be all by which they guide their lives. What you view as not being a "rational decision" may instead be the reflection of a different value system.
This seems like a politically motivated piece of nonsense to discredit individualism and to make one seem insignificant. It's not that consciousness doesn't exist. Consciousness is existence itself. Nothing other than consciousness can exist.