skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bravo, RMS.

I wish I could work on an OS written in Lisp, or in an equivalently expressive language. It's so damn important to have a really user-friendly system easily customizable by non-programmers. Actually, programmers should be routinely put out of their jobs, essentially the same way programmers put others out of theirs. :-)
>I always keep an IPython session around in an extra tab

By "tab" you mean tab in your web browser; do you not? (I ask because there are non-web-based IPython thingies.)
I wear a car. Much safer.
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In the end the application needs a key to decrypt the storage. That key has to be stored somewhere on the device. On a rooted phone there is no place out of reach, so all they can do is make the storage obscure. Unless the hardware provides some inaccessible secure thingy there's not much they can do... I guess even if it did a script like that could access the secure thingy via USB debug as well.

I don't think the developers are to blame. They did what they could.

The real problem is that snapchat promises something it can not technically deliver. Once a photo leaves your phone and is delivered to somebody else, you lost control over that photo.
Safer for you perhaps (in "not getting run over" terms, not in "dying of obesity" terms).

But certainly not safer for any pedestrians or cyclists on the road.
Of course they do. They discourage people riding bicycles and thus help people avoid concussion.

More seriously the people who ride bicycles on streets with cars are much braver than me. I have been lucky in life and seen few examples of serious accidents, but of those I have experienced first hand around 25% have involved people who were riding bicycles.
Nothing instills confidence in cryptographic code like the constants "bananas" and "seems legit...". I'd have hoped that anyone dealing with AES and block cipher modes would take the task a bit more seriously, even if the whole task is, in this instance, ultimately futile due to the lack of a trust root.
You just need to be sure to keep its battery charged, turn it on before you go and accept to buy a new one once it fires.
Find someone you can reasonably expect to be an expert. The author of a well reviewed iOS book, app, library, toolkit, framework, whatever. Have them review code samples or even interview candidates over Skype. It shouldn't cost more than an expensive recruiter. And still cheaper than hiring the wrong person.
Not really think of Javascript and the browser, Javascript is deeply flawed but still powerfull enough to be the target of several compilers. A language like Guile Scheme has the same potential, while TCL has not.
Indeed, you can just type “Hello world” in a text editor!

A non-programmer, I'm sure making it a welcome checkpoint at a programming language is an incredibly stupid tradition. It should always be an one-liner that does something no app in the world can do, with clearly identified spots that a newcomer can tweak for their individual needs.
The battery is supposed to last 18 hours when the device is on, and 36 days when off. It charges quickly over USB. After I zip it up, I do have to remember to fasten a button to turn it on. It would be nice if it alerted me with a periodic beep or something when it was zipped up but not buttoned.

Bicycle helmets in general are not supposed to be re-used after a crash; a Hovding is no exception.
I would say the reduction in cycling is a pretty significant effect. I love cycling, but I am far too scared (or wise) to ever consider riding on a street shared with cars and trucks. In the end if anything goes wrong the driver will feel sad and I won't feel anything.
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Yes but they should have opened with this paragraph buried in the article:

The $40 helmet is one of the great success stories of the past half-­century. Like seat belts, air bags, and smoke detectors, bike helmets save countless lives every year. They do a stellar job of preventing catastrophic skull fractures, plus dings and scrapes from low-hanging tree branches and other common nuisances.
Yeah, that is incorrect, it's rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Q6-wMx-K8
Hm, this could benefit from an edit. I'm definitely stumbling in places here on the text.
I'm no grammar Nazi but the first sentence on this website had me completely tripped up:

>> Linux distribution is well-tested collection of packages carefully organized and supported by the vendor.

wat?
This only shows images (for me). Chrome dev tools have a much more detailed profiling built in. Though it can be a bit overwhelming at first.
This guy is by far the funniest blogger I know of, I regularly and literally shed tears laughing at his "things I won't work with" blog.

And at the same freaking time he writes great thought-provoking posts about the serious stuff. Amazing.
They shouldn't store the images on the phone. You should be only able to view the image immediately after downloading it. After 10 seconds of viewing the image, everything gets deleted from ram.
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We are looking for a Sr. Front-end Engineer that has extensive experience with object-oriented JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. You will be responsible for building out our next-generation mobile applications. We encourage innovation, creativity, and a think outside of the box attitude when solving complex problems and implementing new solutions. You should have a strong passion for design and product development with solid communication skills as you will be interacting with all teams, in particular the product and creative teams.

The front-end engineer will help us push the boundaries of what is possible. You'll work side by side with outstanding designers. You should be proficient in HTML, CSS and Javascript. You should appreciate the details that make a front-end user experience memorable, and demonstrate enthusiasm for new front-end technologies.

What the Engineer will need:
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on UI and firm understanding of Front End best practices.
- Expert experience with object-oriented JavaScript and frameworks such as Backbone.js, NodeJS, Knockout, AngularJS, batman.js, Closure
- Experience with HTML5, CSS3, SASS (we use SCSS), jQuery as well as comfortable writing native Javascript.
- Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop mainly)
- Ability to own and execute complex projects
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience is required

Nice to have:
- High Traffic Social Network, Gaming or Web Experience
- Experience with Agile/Scrum
- Experience with Front-End performance testing and optimization.
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- Experience with Javascript Testing Frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha, QUnit a plus!

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- Competitive base salary and equity
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Major Betteridge fail.
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Is it comfortable ? Doesn't it cause itch on the neck or make you sweat ?
A differing opinion about MIPS helmets from the "helmet advocacy program of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association" (consumer-founded): http://www.helmets.org/mips.htm
(I think) it's not hard to understand where microsoft went wrong. Ballmer just doesn't seem to get where the industry is going. As evidence, this quote from the article:

Indeed, Ballmer seemed to have no intention of leaving when he announced a
massive reorganization of the entire company in July 2013. Behind the scenes
he had also begun negotiating an acquisition that was meant to transform
Microsoft. He had become convinced that the company had to make hardware
too. The reason why goes back to his chart. The two companies which have
seen the greatest increases in the share of profits they take are Apple and
Samsung, particularly Apple, whose share of the technology industry’s
profits leapt from 7 percent in 2008 to 21 percent in 2013. To Ballmer, the
message was clear, and so, in December 2012, he began talking to the Finnish
smartphone-maker, Nokia, whose C.E.O., Stephen Elop, had worked at
Microsoft. There was a defensive reason for the deal as well as an offensive
one. Nokia was pretty much the only company left that was making Windows
phones. If Nokia went under, what would happen to Microsoft’s phone business?

Apple and Samsung's phone businesses are entirely different. Apple is selling ios to the high and middle end market. Samsung is getting devoured from the bottom, because there is very little difference between android oems, whereas Apple doesn't need (or want!) the bottom. It's pretty amazing that someone like Ballmer wouldn't see that coming, given that Xiaomi and the other chinese competitors are running a classic competitive playbook on Samsung.

Stratechery has written about this at length, though I don't recall if it was clearly discussed in a single article or my mental synthesis from a collection. Either way, differentiated companies -- apple -- require completely different strategies than nondifferentiated -- samsung.
More effort has been expended on this question than any other question other than the existence of God. It is possible that a recent breakthrough has been made, but this article has not convinced me.
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Which is why I say Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem.

I wish pretty much every damned site in existence rendered as on Readability.
> In the end if anything goes wrong the driver will feel sad and I won't feel anything.

This is pure hyperbole. As someone who has been hit by 6 cars, most accidents are minor. Sure you will end up worse off, but only a couple have I not been able to ride away from, and that was because my wheel was damaged.

Of course, I started to wear a helmet after about the 3rd time.
From his previous article on his "startup" / "business":

> In my online game hacking history to that point, I'd had seven dupe methods patched across four different games, but never had an account closed.

He doesn't specify what the other 3 (or more) games were (other than one is the "next most popular online game"), or if he exploited them as well.

Assuming these posts are even true that is, they come off as quite hokey. I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be caricatures to see just what HN readers will celebrate.
Yes, an early quote from the article:

The $40 helmet is one of the great success stories of the
past half-­century. Like seat belts, air bags, and smoke
detectors, bike helmets save countless lives every year.
They do a stellar job of preventing catastrophic skull
fractures, plus dings and scrapes from low-hanging tree
branches and other common nuisances.

Helmets are good. The author is wondering why they aren't better at preventing concussions.
Yes, that happens, but it is awkward and unreliable. The CLI is a CodeMirror instance (version 2.something), which has known issues with iOS. I need to check if later versions work better on iOS.
What does it matter if it's not in the shop? They're certified as helmets in the EU. I ordered mine from amazon.co.uk.

As for children, it's true that http://www.hovding.com/#/faq/ says: Can children wear Hövding? No. Hövding has a lower age limit of 15.

But in reality, what does age have to do with the effectiveness of an airbag? The values read by its sensors depend not on the rider's age, but on the rider's mass, speed, and acceleration signatures in a crash. Some children are bigger and heavier than some adults, so this age limit makes no sense. I think it's just something their lawyers made them put there for liability reasons.
This is really cool. If you're using Ubuntu or Debian as your base OS then you really should be managing your software with something like this and offloading your deployment to it as well. The benefits of a setup like that are dead-simple rollbacks and deployment scripts.
Besides being useless, there are also some negative side-effects: helmet limits field of vision significantly and distracts from perceiving audio- and visual- information properly. I feel blindfolded in a helmet, even in a very light one.
That's awesome. My favorite part is when the clever guy who kept his cool during the entire episode drops his jaw when he hears the other guy is going to use his winnings to re-spray his yacht.
This article seems to make a huge deal out of everything and I feel like it may be exaggerating a little. That said I don't know the details very well, could anyone provide more insight or link to a more reliable source of additional information?
The army faces the problem of massive deceleration and new solutions for tank armor are being thought up constantly. Those solutions are also required to be sufficiently light and thin (while stopping the much more massive deceleration of rockets and bullets).
They are pretty happy with Apple's empire. You don't need Microsoft's hardware to build stuff for Windows though.
These things are mentioned in TFA. You didn't read it.
Even if those societal effects were true (there are studies for both sides, and especially the helmet opponents are usually very outspoken and even rude, to the point that they lose credibility), the important thing for me as an individual is not whether helmets lead other people ("the society") to cycle less, but what the effect is on me.

Personally I feel some chilling effect (sometimes I cycle without helmet, so some friction is certainly there). But it's not very strong.

On the other hand, I have never consciously experienced a difference in car driver's behaviour whether I wear a helmet or not.

And I certainly am not cycling in any riskier way when I'm wearing my helmet. If you do, you should really think about what you're doing.
You are confused. You say that you didn't get any updates on Debian, yet you say that it looks like Debian may have applied something.

As I explained above, the patch for CVE-7169 by Florian Weimer made bash invulnerable to code injection by arbitrary environment variables. The underlying bugs CVE-6277 and CVE-6278 therefore have no known attack vector from outside bash, though they can still be triggered from a shell script or the command line if they are not patched. Theoretically, they could become part of a different attack, so it's wise to patch them, but there's no hurry, since as long as you or Debian have applied the abovementioned patch for CVE-7169, it means there's currently no publicly-known exploit.

Also, Debian uses dash as its version of sh, so the problem can only occur if bash is called explicitly.
> From a quick look at the photographs it appears that you have to lift up the entire device to flip the pages, then set it back down again on the book.

You're correct: http://wiki.bookliberator.com/using

> Most of the other DIY book scanners that I've seen use other methods to lift the platen.

Like these?:
http://store.diybookscanner.org/collections/all
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I'm not sure I understand. Exactly what part of the world does your helmet block you from seeing? I can't see mine at all when it's on properly.

Considering that a lot of people use in-ear headphones or casually check their texts while biking in Copenhagen, the added distractions of a helmet still seems like a net win.
As an avid, but fairly aggressive cyclist, I have gotten into a fair number of accidents. Some of the injuries sustained, and the ways in which other injuries would have been likely without a helmet in those situations, have convinced me that many of these studies don't take into account some very common situations in accidents. Direct head impacts are relatively uncommon, due to natural instincts to protect oneself. More common are:

- Side impact from vehicles turning across the bicycle lane. This is the most common cause of fatalities in road accidents in London, and if the vehicle is going at speed, nothing can be done with or without a helmet. Usually, however, the vehicle is slowing to turn, or just clips the rider who hasn't had time to react. When this happened to me, I banged into the side of the van which was cutting me off, and my helmet kept my head from hitting the vehicle, likely right at the temple, which could have caused significant damage.

- Unintended dismount. I find a huge number of "accidents" are really accidents that were just barely prevented by a quick manoeuver, which often leaves the cyclist on the ground. I have avoided collisions quite frequently, but still ended up doing a little barrel roll off the bike. In these cases, I may not be moving fast, but it is nice knowing my helmet will keep me from a kerb to the head.

-Scrapes and abrasions. This is the most painful injury, and one of my most gruesome accidents involved a nasty abrasion on my face - had I not been wearing a helmet, it would have probably meant about half of my scalp was rubbed off as well, so very happy to have been wearing a helmet in that instance.

The "crash test dummy" proof that we don't need helmets doesn't stack up in my experience because I think a confident cyclist is more likely to have oblique and "minor" accidents rather than major direct collisions, and major head trauma is just not going to be prevented by a $40 piece of foam and plastic.
This is rather normal. When we eat the taste checksum goes thru our memory to look for matches (a.i. mother's pie) and associate good emotions.

Kids do not have much memory, but perhaps once they come back to the same restaurant 30 years later they will get this flashback.

Also their taste buds are probably more sensitive for certain chemicals that by now we are used to. For now the easiest way to get them high is sugar.

What was also fun to watch how some of them mimic table manners.
As a space for cycling campaigner ( http://www.cyclebath.org.uk ) helmet articles are an interesting problem that tend to identify cycling as a dangerous activity without extolling the health benefits of cycling itself.

In places like New York, where their Citi Bike scheme has had huge success without helmets (23 million miles of riding, no deaths), utility cycling (commuting) has been made safe through a huge investment in the segregation of cycles from cars and pedestrians. The health benefits to the city are huge (as well as reducing congestion) and you get people of all ages cycling now.

In Australia where helmets are a legal requirement, city cycle schemes are failing, but this may also be to do with a lack in building out segregated cycle infrastructure as part of these schemes. It is still a mainly hardcore, male activity there.

The point is, helmets and cycling create flame wars with anecdotal evidence in favour "how it saved my life" and the response being that the health benefits to society of cycling far out weigh the risks of not wearing one (i.e. It's calculated in the UK, that a helmet law would kill 235 people per year more through obesity related deaths).

When I trundle to the shops or pop into town I wear a cap (being bald brings it's own problems), but should I go out on a club ride or go off-roading I wear a helmet as the risk of falling off is higher. I also wear one when I'm out after dark.

Wear one if you want, don't wear one. Just make sure you are out there riding. The health risks far outweigh the perceived risk of falling off your bike.

The real problem isn't helmets, it's the lack of segregating cycles from pedestrians and motorised vehicles. Making people feel safe cycling to and from shops, homes, schools and their place of work.
Argh! This is a bug. Has been fixed in master (https://github.com/pigshell/pigshell/commit/f402ef445977015a...)

As a workaround in 0.6.2, please use a trailing slash in the name of the mount point. ( /dir/ rather than /dir)

Alternately, use http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.3-pre4/ which would have the fix.
This seems like an oddly reductive take, to me. It's possible to appreciate the pluck and ingenuity while being utterly dismayed by the lack of judgement and self-reflection. And this dismay need not come purely from some misplaced urge for opprobrium.

His broken moral compass and naive sense of entitled victimhood are preventing him from leveraging his talents to find the kind of work that he wants. You can easily be misguidedly "relentlessly resourceful". Just like you can be both fascinated and saddened to see it happen.
Regarding the reduction is cycling: the share of cycling as a transport mechanism fell by almost the same amount in a number of jurisdictions with no mandatory helmet laws over the same time period[1]. People in the transport strategy field generally seem to think the cause of this change was more dual-car families.

However, I used to be strongly in favour of mandatory helmet laws. Now I tend to think they need to be more targeted and used as a blend of changes. I think riding on footpaths should be allowed (with a strict speed limit) without helmets, as well as on separated bikepaths, again with a speed limit. On roads they should be mandatory.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/qPGUfAK.png
I'd be so annoyed by the helmet, it messes up my hair, makes my head sweaty, I have to put it somewhere or keep it with me the whole time. It would really make me bike less. Then again I hardly ever have to share the street with cars and trucks and if I do it is with a lot of other bikers. This is not at all uncommon during rush hour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AbPav5E5M
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This doesn't surprise me at all. Have you ever felt the lining of a bicycle helmet? There's no give to it at all. It might as well all be made of the same plastic the casing's made of.
this is just a screwdriver, Chrome dev tools is a sonic screwdriver.
Helmets are a red herring in the whole cycling discussion. Unless you're racing or mountain biking, you shouldn't need a helmet for regular cycling anymore than you should need a helmet for crossing the street on foot.

There's nothing inherently particularly unsafe about cycling (at least no more unsafe than many everyday activities), even while sharing the road with cars.

The only thing that makes cycling unsafe in certain countries are the drivers, and the culture that puts cars above other traffic to the point where it's apparently okay to run over the odd annoying cyclist.
This is about bicycle helmets, not motorbike.
> To clarify I mean that I don't believe it adds much to the corpus of information about domestic and civil rights infractions.

As a foreigner, I'm actually more interested in non-domestic stuff.
The most recent patch introduced a comeback mechanic that was so powerful that it resulted in comebacks becoming the norm. It got toned down within 2 weeks.

Comebacks are fairly frequent in dota.
> The point is, helmets and cycling create flame wars

The point is, you are very much involved in creating flame wars by labelling the pro side as people who only have their superstitial, anecdotal fairy tales, while saying the contra side has all the cold, hard scientific facts.

Let's just leave it at that.
Then you have to wait for the download every time you open the app.

This is an okay compromise tbh.

(They could offer a super secure option or whatever, I guess)