skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strange ritualistic culture is merely a means by which Zen propagates itself (forward momentum in time) and not the "thing" itself.

In my own words you should meditate because with practice one builds a refuge within stillness. Knowledge of this refuge changes the way you feel about circumstances and mental phenomena (motion). The change just feels right, like a lessening of burden, but it takes practice, that's the thing. The rituals and calligraphy are not the thing.
Where is that? Google Play gives you 30 days and Amazon I believe gives you at least 48 hours for a movie.
Girlfriend's family is from Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Her sister speaks fluent English despite very modest formal language training. (On the order of the n<=3 years of Spanish or French that most American students take without much to show for it.) She did, however, watch a lot of subtitled TV.

There are about 20 million Dutch speakers, vs. perhaps 400 million English speakers in the US and UK, which have large markets for TV shows and movies with correspondingly large budgets. For the average Dutch speaker, the subtitled offerings in English are apparently much richer than the home-grown stuff.

This, at least, was how it was explained to me by multiple independent Dutch-speaking Belgians who all had an embarrassingly firm command of idiomatic English.
It's all about the roll-out, not the price. The price should naturally follow, and then to imagine scenarios you may not be familiar with, but are still real. Here are a few:

* More efficient inter and intra-organizational business systems. I am unsure of how involved academia and consulting have been with bitcoin and cryptos, but JIT payments seem like a very attractive proposition, especially with trusted partners, and especially in corporate contexts. Does your local bank have an API that allows easy funds transfers? Perhaps bitcoin can simplify the accounting function. There has to be benefits and cost-savings. CEOs may ask the question.. "we can get bitcoins, but then what?"

* As mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Adoption in Africa or some other nation: the Orkut phenomenon. It's not about doubt in the USD (also mentioned in the thread) but rather doubt in one's own currency from inflation (or some other unreliability.) This is Draper's view. I think the key is to combine bitcoin with a fiat note (or some newer crypto down the line) and reduce reliance on banks. That's the sweet spot.

* To avoid bank confiscations, eg Cyprus. Having some money is better than having money that's been largely confiscated. Bitcoin makes any nasties in government and corporations think twice. It's wealth insurance. And if/when confiscations occur, the price could rise higher than what you paid for them (but until then, it might seem like a loss.)

* I suppose bitcoin could become a type of digital backbone currency, due to it being the first (but not the last) Cc. It really depends on the roll out, which has a number of imperatives driving it. It's worth looking at various business and use cases of bitcoins, and once these start reaching larger audiences, the usage should expand.

* Online activities needing anonymity: use your imagination.

* The currency could be faster to use, but it's usable enough for above things.
Public keys are intended to be public. So long as you're not transmitting them over the same connection as the one you're using them in, you're golden.
what do you feel about the Blue Waters system and do you have access to it?
I believe an accounts basically stores your public key on their servers, so other people can verify with FireChat who it is that sent the message.

In an offline context, you'd be able to get a lot of messages and tell that it's the same person talking, but you'll have no way to see whether that really is the person or not. FireChat's public key servers allow those with access to see- according to FireChat- who is talking.
Eh, I think it's fine. I advocate for HTTPS everywhere but I don't think this particular bit of information is so sensitive as to demand encryption.
Take everything they've said in their answer, but ignore the "we aren't accepting new partners at this time." The whole thing is an auto-generated response. Get out there and meet some contacts at facebook, let them know you're serious and different.

This might work, it might not, but if you're a business, what have you got to loose. At the least, you'll meet some interesting people and maybe learn a thing or two. Be sure to ask not only what you can do to get on Facebook, but maybe ask them what else you should be doing that would have made them more likely to accept you in the first place.

I can see that getting onto Facebook could be important for your business, but if it's the most important thing, you don't have a business, so work the facebook angle but maybe you'll also come up with something innovative that would be more valuable than getting your ads on facebook.
It is indeed possible that Chinese trading vessels may have reached the Kamchatka peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. The more unlikely part here is that those voyages would have been made known to a random Venetian barbarian who happened to be passing through, and that said Venetian would be able to obtain such detailed maps. If I were going to come up with a hypothetical explanation for the maps beyond 20th century forgery, I'd say that it's more likely that some 16th century Manila galleon strayed a bit north on the return trip to Acapulco and did some secret mapping. The Spanish Manila route actually got surprisingly close to Alaska: http://historicphilippines.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ru...

That's a stretch too, of course. But the Spanish were extremely secretive about their cartographic knowledge so the mere fact that there was no official announcement of a discovery doesn't necessarily mean they didn't know about it.
Exactly.

Good security is not an unbreakable lock, it's a lock that costs significantly more to break than the value of what it's guarding.
Source code: https://github.com/servalproject

Activity:
(1) https://github.com/servalproject/batphone/commits/developmen...
(2) http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=cont...
building a petascale system is relatively easy compared to having applications that can actually use all that power. you can count such applications probably on one hand that can scale to post-petascale systems
Appreciate the intent, but that contrast is really not good. I wonder what the liability issues would be for assigning random colors to prescriptions. What if two different prescriptions end up having similar colors and go to the same patient?
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The point of HTTPS is not to hide things, it's to prevent tampering... Which seems relevant when transmitting checksums.
Nice comparison, but I think he missed the best option: Diatomaceous Earth (frequently abbreviated DE). It's been used for Bonsai for a while, but some tomato growers have been excited by it for a few years now: http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=22329

I used it this year, and think it's great. Ph neutral, sterile, cheap, non-hazardous, holds water but allows oxygenation, low environmental impact, pleasant to work with, and locally available. It can be purchased from chain auto parts stores as an oil spill cleanup (http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/MTA4/8925/N0431.oap) and sometimes from Dollar Stores as kitty litter.

Well worth trying if you are starting seeds or rooting seedlings. If buying for the first time, note that you do _not_ want "food grade" DE, which is a fine powder. The seedling stuff is more like fine grained cat litter. And you want to be sure you aren't buying a clay product instead, since some have similar names. Ultrasorb, Optisorb, or Blue Ribbon DE Premium Cat litter are brands to look for --- make sure it explicitly says "diatomaceous earth" or DE.
I was by no means complaining, but always liked Colin Wright's reports of duplicate posts, because I'd wonder "Haven't I seen that before?"
You describe it perfectly.

It's been a long while since I've experienced that, but you describe it perfectly.
It's important to remember that applications will always outnumber prospective-students... Because people make more than one to different schools.

So it's not quite as hectic as the numbers initially imply.
It’s not about rich people only. Reprints of famous paintings that cost between $5k-$20k are sold like hot cakes, and those aren’t targeted to the rich and famous. They’re for well put individuals who can’t afford buying an original Hirst or a Murakami and are glad with a numbered copy (for example [1], [2]).

Art belongs in what economists call “positional goods” that is possessions that signify wealth and power. You could buy a lot of things with $20 million but nothing could make you standout like a Picasso or a Rothko.

[1] http://www.artspace.com/damien_hirst/emerge
[2] http://www.artspace.com/takashi_murakami/killer_pink
yeah, you get the money out the umbrella company via dividends rather than salary.
All these companies have security teams (not network security). Most of them are retired cops, retired detectives, sometimes these companies hire local cops for big bucks as their VP of security. But they also hire managers of security for local sites.

But at the bottom level, they have contracted out to Securitas, Guardsmark, SIS Security, etc.

Patrolling, monitoring cameras from a central site, checking locks of all doors, badging, etc--all these have been contracted out.

Hospitals are better in this aspect: they hire full timers for the bottom layer, and they also keep contract security firms. Stanford hospital is a good example: they have 70% full time security guards, and 30% is contracted out.
Nobody has made a parachute remotely large enough. The engineering challenges are quite unknown.

I suspect the parachute would be far too heavy. Also, jets fly very fast, and the jerk when the chute opens would likely rip things apart.
If I needed a medium to nurture root structure a and retain some water/air, coconut coir all the way
These shirts are good, but they are not sexy. And I would never buy a sexy shirt.
Love the release song for this one.
There were tons of search engines before Google came along. Uber had existed, why use Lyft? You get the idea...
I nominate the shrimp. Not the shortest animal, but it sure sounds like it ought to be.
Ah, I never said he took this approach out of ignorance. I've talked about this with him before, and never found his arguments lacking.

It is nice that something is still going on in OOP.
One should take into account the fact that Watts was presenting his material to an audience of western intellectuals who had been so deeply indoctrinated into "scientific orthodoxy" that one really had no chance of getting anything across if one did not choose to invoke science. I don't see this as any different than the Buddha choosing to give teachings using concepts familiar to the brahmins of his time.
Is Firechat dead?

"The server at opengarden.com is taking too long to respond."
Microsoft’s ‘RoomAlive’ transforms any room into a giant Xbox game
Why submit this now? The fact that the top item is "..." wasn't a hint it's not done?
That problem can be solved by retrieving the key out of band. If you're that worried about it, use a VPN to verify that the key you're seeing is the right key. That will vastly increase the difficulty of pulling off a successful attack. They'd have to MitM both connections, as well as the connection you're using to download the software, in order to compromise it.
Notch 2006:

[1] http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php/topic,12642.0
[2] https://mojang.com/notch/logichex/
The Venetian barbarian was apparently in the court of Kublai Khan for 17 years — I wouldn't really call that passing through nor random.
No.

Now you've learned a valuable lesson about asking a rhetorical question on the internet. None of the other responders knew the correct answer.
Is Google Making Students Stupid?
This girl seems like a cool person. I originally didn't watch this because she wasn't "famous". But personally I found this one of the more inspiring talks after watching it.
The link is in the page, that's part of the challenge. Keep trying.
VR HMDs have lenses that make it more like you are staring into the distance.

Its sort of like wondering about the health effects of wearing glasses.
That was epic – Reset the Net
The class 6.004 at MIT basically steps through these abstractions one week/lab at a time. This was my favorite class in school. Each lab is a higher level of abstraction and eventually you've built a basic processor. It gives you a very clear picture of how "1s and 0s" can turn out to become what you see on your computer screen.

OCW Link: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
How are you supposed to verify with FireChat who sent the message when you don't have an internet connection though? Are you supposed to route your (presumably encrypted) request through other (presumably connected) phones? What's the point of requiring an account when the their entire selling point is that you can use the app in places with no internet access at all, like the wilderness?
Saving Cyla
Usually multi-shank arrays like the one depicted in the press release are chronic, so no chamber is necessary. Instead, they are implanted directly into the brain during surgery and wired to a port on the animal's head. There's still some risk, since one still has to remove the skull above the target site and also cut and resew the dura mater, but the skin can be sewed back together after implantation and the bone will eventually regenerate. Unlike in an acute preparation with a chamber, there is no exposed dura that needs to be cleaned regularly to prevent infection, and the electrodes are inserted just once instead of repeatedly.

If the recording contacts are sufficiently dense, the total area of skull that needs to be removed to implant 1000 channels worth of arrays may actually be less than in a conventional two-chamber (maybe even single chamber) acute primate preparation. But we'll see.
Selling a site on Flippa
I own a website (http://www.bongotones.com) that I started in 2009. At it's peak we were doing 250K a year from advertisement. Due to some unfortunate issues, bad business decisions (eg. bad money spent on SEO, design work, etc), business partners being spread across different cities and just priorities we let go of the site. It still has great potential with some TLC. In our prime we were number 3 on google for "Free Ringtones" and over the past 5 years have had over 52Million page views and 6million unique views.
the problem with selling on flippa is that lately due to us not having time to keep the site up and only making money from adsense the revenue has dropped dramatically BUT we do have a database of over 180K registered users and 120K ringtones. I think that's where the value of the website is now, a PR3 website with over 6Million pages indexed on google and the database.
i'm posting the link here to see if anyone would be interested or get some guidance from people on how to go about selling this.

https://flippa.com/3277671-pr-3-187000-registered-users-122000-ringtones-6-3m-indexed-pages

thanks!
It's the way good computer graphics used to look.
I have a long standing love of Vonnegut books. I cried when he died. There are some I am putting off reading since then, just so I don't reach a point where I have no more Vonnegut to read.

I would love to see his grave just to find out if he did get the epitaph he suggested in Slaughterhouse 5:

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
The use of the term "ethnic cleansing", which refers to systematic attempts to expel and, in many cases, murder people based on their ethnicity, is not appropriate in this context. Your use of the term makes your post, which otherwise raises important and historically-relevant points, lose considerable credibility.
In case you're curious, you're being downvoted because Tomte was not quoting Armageddon.
Navy debuts unmanned robotic boats with new swarm capability
They should break off HP Labs and make this real faster :) http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/hp-lab...
What is stopping companies from implementing timers to prevent brute force attacks? Limit password entry attempts to 3 then if still wrong then wait 1 minute. One more wrong entry then wait 3 minutes then 15 minutes then 1 hour, 4 hours, 8 hours, 24 hours etc.

Doesn't iOS do this if you don't have "erase data after 10 failed attempts" set?

Why can't all systems have this implemented or is this bypassed another way which then allows someone to brute force to their heart's content?
Euclideon Makes World’s Most Realistic Graphics
Not a good example. The Rodney King video played a large role in getting the officers acquitted.

Without the video, the prosecution would have had eyewitnesses and the injuries to King, which were pretty damning. The defense would not have really had anything to counter that.

With the video, the defense was able to take a step by step approach to the defense. They showed that the first blows were in response to King being uncooperative or aggressive, and were probably justified. They then framed the issue as when, if ever, did the beating switch from justified force against an aggressive suspect and turn to excessive force against a man who had stopped fighting and submitted?

Each time King was hit, he'd twitch or kick or flail an arm or a leg. The defense started with the first blows, which they were able to justify because King did start out aggressive, and then they went blow by blow, looking at the position of each officer and what he could see, showing that each saw one of those kicks or flails of King's, and that from his position the officer could not see that was an involuntary response to a prior blow. From what the officer could see, King was still violently resisting, and so that officer would take a swing. The defense would show that caused an involuntary response that made the next officer think King was still fighting.

They went all the way through the video that way, getting the jury to focus on the difficulty of pointing to any point and saying that this was where the line was crossed.

This worked, and they got acquittal.

No video, and the jury would have likely focused on the totality of what happened to King, and then it would be hard not to find excessive force.

I think the video also made the prosecution overconfident. I think they thought it was going to as simple as showing up, playing the self-evident video, proving that the accused were the officers in the video and that the video was real, and that would be it.
Political orientation of 100,000 websites detected by Quantcast, including DSC
Sans Aurora, it seems relatively obvious that docker "won" when it comes to shipping code and deploying applications. Marathon certainly takes advantage of this fact. I don't think it really matters. Mesos can work with kubernetes and vice versa. The more the two can inter-operate, the better options you as a user have.

Both are excellent tools.
Can we please have a rule against posting paywall links? I know we can find a cached version or search on Google or whatever, but it's still frustrating!

I am not asking for a work-around to access WSJ articles. I'm asking HN to consider blocking domains that force users to pay money to access their content.
Stop Australia's Data Retention Bill
1) This article seems to describe actually having physical access to the device.

2) As for "all systems," if you mean a place where public guessing is possible (like a web app), then this measure opens up an easy DOS surface. Want someone not to be able to access their account? Know their email / username? Just burn up all their 'guesses' and they'll have to wait.
Yeah, that's the original. But it's a Java applet, this is a Javascipt Canvas implementation.
The only way to figure it out is to mess around with it.
While I sincerely doubt that you release all your code under the ISC license, I will take your word on it.

That mean you can use any open source license and release your contributions under that license. Be that BSD, GPL, MIT, Apache... what ever it is, your contributions can always be under the license of your choice.

So yes, you do have the freedom to do what you claim you only do, ie, release code you write under ISC license. 100% freedom to do exactly that. Write a addon to AGPL and release that add-on as ISC? No legal problem at all.

If you want freedom to release code someone else has written under the license of your choice, then I sit in the same boat. I would like too to have the freedom to chose that, but alas, copyright wont' allow that. It would be a neat freedom to chose the license of OS X and windows.
its a reference to this image, btw: http://viciulgandirii.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/giraffes-a...
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Grafana seems to be the most extensive in terms of features
Facebook Relaunches Atlas: This Week in Social Media
Unless you practice mindful concentration.
That's the conclusion I've come to also, thanks.
>I was hoping the article would mention something about their neuroscience, too.

The article specifically mentions this and cites the study you linked.

>Or maybe the giraffes are worried about tripping over their own feet. Heather More and Shawn O’Connor of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and their colleagues measured so-called sensorimotor responsiveness in the giraffe: how long it takes a nerve signal to travel from a muscle in the ankle up to the brain and back again. Reporting in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the researchers found that the nerve conduction rate in the giraffe is pretty much the same as it is in a shrew, rat or any other mammal.

>Given the comparatively greater distance a nerve signal has to travel in the giraffe, Dr. More said, it’s possible the giraffe faces real challenges in reacting quickly to events down under — a rock beneath its hoof, or a bite to its ankle.
A lot of the tools that admissions offices use (essays, letters of recommendations) emerged because Harvard, Yale, and Princeton wanted to keep out (or limit the numbers of) the "wrong sort" of people, which, at the time, were Jews, homosexuals, and other such undesirables. Yale even went so far as to have its alumni interviewers comment on the bodies of male applicants. College administrators talked quite openly about the idea that having too many Jews would result in an inferior or degraded college culture.

My source here is Jerome Karabel's book called, naturally, The Chosen.
I didn't say that he did anything in particular, just that it sounded like he picked them up his habits in prison. I'm not clear on what he was like before, but it seems like he went to prison, came out, and started acting a lot worse than he did before. So obviously prison didn't so anything to reform him. I stand by it.
> Can we please have a rule against posting paywall links?

Can we please stop already with the complaints about paywalls? Diligent, thoughtful journalism doesn't happen for free; it's great when HN links can be read for free, but paywalled links shouldn't be second-class citizens.
I'm not too familiar with many other architectures, but MIPS has dcache "fill", "flush", and "lock" operations, so the user can both do a premature fill operation, or even lock data in the cache so it won't be evicted.

I haven't seen many people actually use these ops, because it's actually pretty hard to do better than the built-in cache allocation policies for most applications, especially if you take into account that your app is going to get swapped out consistently by the operating system task switches.
The announcement was actually a year ago. The officially split off the company on September 1st I believe. Really annoyed a lot of EEs that they are splitting it off yet again.
I think inflation has more of an effect on savings than earnings, but what you said about supporting a family 50 years ago rings true. I don't think today's salaries go as far as they did in the past few decades.