skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a valid pursuit, and I think it noble of you. Your associations are your own, and I don't intend to suggest they be any particular way at all.

Still, your point doesn't take away from those non-SOMEONE's that do not bear children, and the net impact they have left on humanity and the Universe. I can't believe that Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo, and so many other contributors to the works of humanity that had no children were "lives wasted" for their lack of reproduction.
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue 45
With the upcoming EMV transition most businesses are on that path. New POS terminals will have NFC built into it.

Additionally this system offers a secure mechanism to the merchant as well without making a dent to their business processes. That should motivate them to move quickly on it to prevent Target/Home depot style mess.

Finally the narrative around this is going to evolve the public perception. They are going to demand this from merchants for security, which should move the ball forward.
Linux on the desktop is painful. Bad, bad advice.
I like having separate "work" and "play" accounts on my machine, and Cask isn't really set up to work with multiple accounts (issue #5887 in their github issue tracker). That's something you'll need to keep in mind if you use this approach.
This is a good point. It's important not to overgeneralize. At the same time, for those students who learn best by memorizing, it's best not to completely discard rote learning.
How I hire at Mozilla
So the opaque pre-compiled blob that installs other pre-compiled blobs...

Why use OSX, then? Shouldn't you be using Gentoo?
Yeah, well done on OP for introducing it with a warning:

> This script should not be run without prior examination. It's quite opinionated and intended to be modified.
It is hard to justify unless you know you need it. IDEs get used on multiple projects. This license is per site. IDEs often have some kind of trial or at least you got to play with it on your friend's computer first. But "commercial use" could include testing it in your commercial application.

I prefer licenses that are based on how much something gets used. So, free if your site has small traffic or maybe free if the number of developers using it is small. That lets me use it in experimental projects or personal side projects (which may or may not make money and hence may be commercial) but not have to pay until the project grows large enough to be worth buying something like this.

I think the only library I've ever bought for a web project was $30 for a site license. It was when I worked at a company and multiple projects were going to use it and run from the same domain.
Companies that do this kind of stuff deserve to be publicly shamed and exposed as assholes.
"In the filing, JPMorgan said there was no evidence that account information, including passwords or Social Security numbers, were taken."

I wonder what was actually "compromised" about the 76 million accounts if not account information.
> What is the probability of one person wanting to do damage? Square that.

What's the probability of one person wanting to do damage and having a momentary opportunity to smack the other person in the head with a hammer? Substantially more doable.
Reading the article gave me the impression that this was going to be cheaper than going to a framer. I plugged in some numbers and settings for an almost identical 36 x 24 frame I had made a couple months ago, and the price was about the same ($200). It also seems like you can't make larger frames (beyond 36 x 24), which is where about 80% of my frame expenditures go to. I once paid that same framer a lot to frame, deliver, and hang a 4' x 9' piece of art. If you could make a frame and ship it to me for less, and I could use the cute interface to do it, I'll hang it myself and not have to spend all that time interacting with a framer.

Maybe I am subject to some sampling bias here, but people who spend real money on frames usually have large custom framing needs.

It also seems like shipping contributes a lot to the price, have you thought about offering an option to deliver the frame unassembled with a lower shipping rate? I'm sure it costs less to mail a long square tube than a flat box.

I liked reading about how this idea captivated you - best of luck with it!
And the "prosecutive summary":

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1304...
NASA found a mysterious rectangular shape on the moon
Read the filing:

User contact information – name, address, phone number and email address – and internal JPMorgan Chase information relating to such users have been compromised.

The compromised data impacts approximately 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.

However, there is no evidence that account information for such affected customers – account numbers, passwords, user IDs, dates of birth or Social Security numbers – was compromised during this attack.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19617/000119312514362...
WEBrick and Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup: A Tale in Two Acts
As a CPGE student I must say that memorization IS key to solving problems (the essence of learning maths); it's not a traditional "dumb" memorization of proofs however.

The whole assertion of "understanding how a proof is done rather than memorizing it is how maths should be done" holds true, BUT only when you are not bound by time or a deadline, which is not the case most of time, whether you are working through a test, an exam or even on a PhD, you cannot afford losing time "reinventing the wheel"; working on proving theorems that have already been proven rather than using them directly.

The factor of time forces you to "memorize" certain concepts/theorems/facts so that you can use them directly as tools.

Personally, my approach consists in working on proving these "tools" at a first stage; understanding why they are true, then, I simply go past that and simply "memorize" them in order to boost my workflow.

In a nutshell, in order to be productive (doing maths or even physics), you must memorize shit, just don't do it blindly.
Homebrew isn't exactly new
yes, working on it, and right now can do it manually if someone emails the site or uses the chat box. very nice and richer experience when you have the image (e.g. - https://www.levleframes.com/artists/joey-roth/frame?levle_id...)
Is anyone really surprised?

IT Security is a cost center and, honestly, the damage from this hack (money wise) to JP Morgan is likely less than the cost of better security.

Also, the larger the payoff ... the more effort people will put into the attack. No IT system is 100% secure unless its been shredded. Even a no-network PC in a vault is still vulnerable to a vault door breach.
Ask HN: How much did your startup spend on a failed project/experiment
I have been working on a project where I optimize number of clock cycles required to access memory. All indications are that we will get no improvement compared where we were 2-3 months ago. This means our startup wasted atleast $30k.

So, how much did your startup spend before realizing something was not working?
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
As a system integrator, I agree (and cry! at the lost revenue from integrating two systems never designed to talk to each other).

DISCLAIMER: I am an Odoo partner.
I found out about this when installing Synergy on my fresh Windows box that I use mostly for gaming. I gladly coughed up the $5. Of course, I could have built the software myself but, it wasn't worth the hassle of recompiling on all my platforms and keeping the software up to date. I think this model of open source software makes quite a bit of sense. I hope they get enough funding from this to keep making Synergy... It is a very useful tool.
This story probably only hints at the truly terrifying power that the NSA can bring to bear. I do not think anyone is disputing the need to collect intelligence but the scale and scope of the NSA's no-holds-barred all the information all the time approach needs to be reigned in.

At this point (ironically) it may be fair to start treating them as one of the biggest threats to the functioning of democracy in the US.

Not terrorists, not violent militia, not soft money, not Income inequality - but an agency with virtually unchecked powers, opaque budget, no due process that Govt. Officials themselves daren't speak against for fear of embarrassment or worse.
It's possible they meant that the rant was anti-U.S. and contained those allegations and not that the rant was anti-U.S. because of those allegations.
This payload is currently being distributed using the Shellshock vulnerability
Haven't seen that yet but we can probably accomodate -- would just need you to email/chat and specify what you are framing.
We're seeing it in multiple AZ's, so I don't think it's isolated to just one. And I don't know if you were aware of this (I learned it just recently), but AZ's are labeled differently for different customers, i.e., your 1a may be different from ours! Gotta love it.
To me, the key point of "The Selfish Gene" was that the base unit of evolution is the gene. I don't see anything in this article which disagrees with this notion, and they did quote a biologist who said something similar:

Pruitt and Goodnight don’t propose a mechanism by which the colonies boomeranged back to their original state. And without such a mechanism, some researchers argue that the results could be due to ordinary selection acting on individuals. “I think they over-interpret [the results] as evidence of group-level selection,” said Andy Gardner, a biologist at the University of Oxford. “Natural selection may factor in the needs of the group, to some extent, when it hones the adaptations of individuals. But group fitness is not the whole story.”

I understand Gardner's point to be that even if the selection pressure starts at the group level, it can still go down to the individual, and then down to the gene. In that sense, we're still selecting the gene.

Actually, upon reading the actual article, the authors say basically the same thing in the first paragraph:

"In societies in which individual fitness is tightly linked with the performance of the group, the theory of group selection predicts that evolution will favour traits in individuals that aid in maximizing their group’s success—which, in turn, are predicted to increase individuals’ long-term evolutionary interests. Here we define group selection as selection caused by the differential extinction or proliferation of groups1. This represents a broad definition that is not in any way adversarial to the importance of kinship selection for social evolution."

Assuming I understand the authors correctly, they mean that the "fitness" of an individual cannot always be considered to be in isolation. In order to determine the fitness of an individual, we may have to consider the combination of the individual, and the group in which they live. I see that as consistent with the notion of a "selfish gene", as I understand it.
This happens on 4chan from time to time, of course last time I checked moot had not implemented unique identifiers so it could have been the same person.

That suggests that a more structure environment focused on that activity might have some use, but unless you want to build a user base or build this as a app on top of some other auth platform you are going to face many of the same problems 4chan faces when confronted with anonymous contributors.
Did you even read the article, or did you read the subheading, which I will admit is a stretch, and immediately cast judgement? You used the strawman of a k-12/college student who learns something and quickly by practicing a particular method then forgets it. What about those who actually do learn this way? There are most certainly visual learners who can see concepts in their head -- a trait I admire personally.

>So many students in other cultures

Do you know every student? Every culture? Again, nothing but over-generalizations here. The article actually referenced the afterschool programs in Japan that had success.

Yes at some point you have to back and understand the why and the how, but solving equations and crafting proofs are actually two different skills in my opinion and I have met mathematicians that were stronger in either or both.

In any case, I think you are missing the point of this author. I think the authors strongest argument which is building that foundation, or "innate ability" and he argues that comes through memorization and rote learning. Quoting, "building well-ingrained chunks of expertise through practice and repetition was absolutely vital to their success" I don't think he just pulled that out of his butt. If you take the time to practice like the author did where it becomes engrained into your mind, you are in fact learning effectively.

Besides all this, what is mathematics anyways? Is it not a language? Does it not have "letters" (variables, operators, symbols), does it not have a grammar? Does it not have "parts of speech?" (an equation must have a left side, and a right side), Is it not used to communicate to others?

In any case, certainly not a terrible read in any way.
Cynical? You may be hurting your brain health
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
—Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
I guess OP doesn't see the point of using a JavaScript framework for, per [0], "what should be text communicating a fucking message".

[0] - http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
"In a nutshell, in order to be productive (doing maths or even physics), you must memorize shit, just don't do it blindly."

And voilà, you put it much better than I did in 5 rambling paragraphs. Memorization is key (at least for some learners), but only as one part of a process.
I don't have one "stock" project that I always use for learning new languages... I just do whatever I happen to be thinking about at the time. Long ago, that meant an AD&D (2nd Ed) character generator. Then it was a training database for the volunteer fire department I was with. Later it was an (aborted) attempt to build a decentralized /federated social-network (something like Diaspora, IOW).

When I started learning Groovy and Grails I just started building a Reddit-like app that would become the first project of what would become Fogbeam Labs.

Now, I'm working on learning to use Angular, so I've decided to start on a product management dashboard thing I wanted to build for internal use here at Fogbeam.

So, advice? Just pick something. You say you don't have an "itch to scratch", well OK... if you don't have something new you want to create, just pick an existing $WHATEVER and port it to your chosen language. Pick something you use regularly so you'll know and understand the domain, and start coding.

It doesn't really matter if you finish it or not, or how good it is. The goal, remember, is to learn the $NEWLANGUAGE not to build a better $WHATEVER. But who knows, maybe the $WHATEVER project will turn out great, and you can wind up actually using it or making a business around it. But if not, it still served it's purpose.
That document is surprisingly readable! I expected something very dry and bureaucratic, but this is written at a high level with historical context, and narrative.
Very interesting. I'm going to have to ponder on that one.

I agree that goals 'beyond our biology' are, quite basically, rooted IN THAT biology. We can never trust our perception to be anything other than a reflection of that biology, so I see your point.

>Would they have trade or commerce or families or anything we would recognize?
using different language, maybe. They WOULD have resource transmission and interactions, methods of managing scarcity, and methods of categorizing and identifying individual nodes in their system.
actually the "src" in pkgsrc means that you have the choice of using binary packages (pkg) or building from source. The best of both worlds!

Give it a try, you might like it (because it rocks!)
> allowing you to setup a new Mac in a matter of hours, not days

Wow, it takes days for people to set up their Macs? I would be interested in something that would make this take minutes, not hours. It's already pretty easy to setup a Mac for development in a few hours.
I received the following from AWS support at 9:33am US/Eastern today (8+ hours ago): "... We have now been able to reproduce the behavior in tests similar to your scripts to pinpoint where the UDP packets were disappearing, and yesterday evening the team tested a fix that unfortunately had some unexpected problems. I am hesitant to provide any time estimate since any software development has risk, but I'm hopeful it will be fixed today...."

The last DNS blip we saw was less than an hour ago, so I don't think it's fixed yet, but the day is not yet over...
“A Tesla car next year will probably be 90 percent capable of autopilot.”
The American Black Chamber (there's some controversy surrounding the author, too)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Black_Chamber

Enigma: The Battle for the Code (I think that's the one I read)

http://www.amazon.com/Enigma-Battle-Code-Hugh-Sebag-Montefio...

I know I read one specifically about breaking Purple, but can't seem to track it down (I don't believe it's the William F. Friedman bio).

I haven't read this one, but it also seems to be what you're looking for (and has a decent rating):

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Secret-History-Code-breaking...

(You might check a public/university library for these and related titles--that's where I found them.)
Someone admitted I'm right in HN. I should go out and buy a lottery ticket. ;)

We all are wrong sometimes. Shit happens. :)
List of Words Google considers curse words
I have gone my whole life thinking that this was the definition of empathy, understanding other people's feelings and how they are connected to their behavior. I always thought the concept of feeling what someone else feels was a metaphor for understanding it, because how could anyone ever know what emotions are running through someone else's mind? Emotions are chaotic and very particular to millions of unique chemical and electrical reactions in in the brain, which are then interpreted by someone's unique experience.

I can't say I ever thought I felt what someone else was feeling, so maybe I just have no empathy. I also don't ever get angry, so maybe that's related. (I make one exception for misbehaving computers with no clear reason or solution, but I'd call that frustration.)

So generally, I agree with the author that understanding others and responding in supportive ways is much more useful than feeling what you think they are feeling. I am just skeptical that anyone would argue, and I would be surprised if that's what the quoted people had in mind.
(I work at Meteor)

There's a small point to make here that many iOS apps that use WebViews just do the easy thing and load the content over the Internet, rather than storing it on the phone and fetching updates in the background. This makes sense for dynamic content that requires an Internet connection, but if you want to be able to push changes to the entire UI of your app and have it work offline, you need to do the more complicated thing and figure out how to serve the files from app storage into a WebView.

Meteor isn't the first to do this by any means, but it sure makes it easy!
I haven't found it to be terribly useful - you answer your 20 questions and are given a long list of possible matches, and if you're extremely lucky the font might be somewhere in the list. The MyFonts approach is much nicer, working directly with an image of the characters with the forum as a backup.
Here's an idea: don't use a one off custom feature in a new untested way to seed your random number generator. if "of course the guy got bit by a bug" describes what you are doing, don't do it.
Sure it does. This political context is highly relevant.

Why do you think NASA is collaborating with ESA and ISRO but not China? Well, NASA is prohibited from bilateral projects with China due to a law passed by the US Congress in 2011:

http://news.sciencemag.org/technology/2011/04/spending-bill-...

And, as pointed out nearby, the relationship with Russia is not exactly peachy:

http://www.space.com/26945-russian-holds-nasa-hostage-mike-g...

There are many reasons for this situation, so trying to reduce it to democracy vs. not has resulted in a lengthy and inconclusive exchange (seen nearby). But whatever the list of reasons, this international political context is highly relevant to the collaborations that are currently workable.
Shadow libraries statistics from re:publica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfEKrz49zGM
We most certainly can do what we say.

Check out http://youtu.be/o_3GUKsQ4CQ to see for yourself.

It's called "Seeing Is Believing" for good reason.

regards,

Steven Glapa
(Tarana's marketing guy)
Your linked example is drastically different. Although the merchant only sees a virtual card number, Google sees, stores and charges your real credit card number the old-fashioned way.
Depends.. ICE1 trainsets appear to be slightly heavier than the Acela, whereas the newer ones are lighter. But that seems to be mainly due to having no dedicated power cars (ICE1 and the Acela Express do have power cars).
Random TCP ISN is about all the security that the cheap CAs require before signing a certificate.
The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose
Flange???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flange_(disambiguation)
I would love a potential use case as a backup that is redundant dozens or hundreds of times over. I'm not sure the exact mechanism by which DVDs start to lose data over 10-20 years, but this tech might be a way to mitigate that risk (as well as scratches and other physical damage).
Thanks for the TLDR - I was struggling with the low contrast, given the verbosity and the long time coming to the point.

I was getting the sense that the author had decided to use a twisted definition of empathy, and came to a series of faulty conclusions because of that. At the start, the author says "When I say empathy, I mean sympathy", in which case... the term "sympathy" should be used. In my experience, people don't use them interchangably; sympathy is feeling sorry or happy for someone, empathy is understanding where (and why) that person is coming from. Or at least, trying to.

I got through a third of the article and it really started shaping up as "I don't like sympathy" rather than empathy; starting from faulty premises, the author gets to have his 'shock value' statement, but it's not accurate.
Boxen always seemed pretty heavy-handed to me for a single developer as opposed to an IT team managing workstations for a team of developers. Is this not the case? A dotfiles repository always seemed like enough to me.
And even at 10,000 records, you're probably better off pre-loading them as json on the client and avoiding the server request altogether.
Memorization is not learning. It is a part of learning. Being able to memorize things and understand their relationships in context is learning.
Tecnotronic only appeared on the site a couple of years ago, but now he seems to do about 80% of the forum IDs. I don't know how he finds time to sleep or earn a living.

Gotta agree with you on Neutraface.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees...

1) Make sure you can legally switch.

2) Switch.