skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they want you to relocate. That's why they're having problems finding a developer. How many people want to leave their country/city/family/friends for a job?

This is 2014, not 1985. Let them work remotely.
Aside from safety, there's another insurmountable obstacle to space disposal: cost. You may not appreciate just how much spent fuel there is. I did the math once. Launch cost per pound, times number of pounds of waste, came out to over $1 trillion. Orders of magnitude away from feasibility, even with advancements in launch technology.
Er, why not just use the `history` command (or hit the up arrow)?
Took me a moment to realize what you were talking about then visions of my game boot disks came flooding back. They're probably still in my parents' computer desk.
I dream of Geisha
Prank like Obama. Call to Putin from a fake number
I agree this seems too be missing the largest percentage of startups who are no less deserving for this kind of help. Many good startups could use this help. It's not hard to figure out if it's a legitimate startup. Just make sure they're registered to do business (i.e., FEIN, tax ID, state license, etc.).
I probably have issues of some kind, but I like pain. For me, the best part about exercising regularly is being kind-of sore all of the time. I also enjoy the feeling of running into walls when I'm learning something new. Obviously, doing it too much can be discouraging, but I like having an apparently insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
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"Hamas—the democratically empowered Islamic organization determined to reclaim Palestine from Israel"

If you mean hanging your political opponents from bridges and executing them in the public square, then yeah, Hamas is "democratically empowered".

And the Hamas charter states its goal is the destruction of the state of Israel, not merely reclaiming land.
I find it odd that you categorize "load you into an ambulance" as "useless". Isn't getting help after the fact still extremely valuable in many cases?
This is a huge problem at farmers markets. I see vendors break down wholesale (super market) boxes in plain sight and put them in "rustic farmers marketish" baskets. Usually the produce come from outside the US too.

Best way to avoid this scam is to buy seasonal. Or focus on produce you can't get at a regular super market.

That said, I don't blame the vendors because most consumers have come to expect a diverse range of produce year round and have no concept of seasonality—even "savvy" farmers market consumers.
> a few hours of assembly/disassembly time

for replacing the RAM on a unibody aluminum MacBook Pro? it's one screwdriver (Phillips 00), maybe 10 screws to remove from the edges of the back cover, and the RAM modules are easily accessible without any additional tools. One of the easiest RAM upgrades I've ever done... maybe 10 minutes max.

(not that it matters anymore since the retina models aren't user-upgradeable)
USB has a huge security problem that could take years to fix[1]

[1] http://seclists.org/isn/2014/Oct/16
This is what happens when you replace judgement with rigid rules. The obverse is that you have good-old-boy networks that let friends and family off easy. There's always trade-offs when people are involved.

Sad that your gf had to go through that, I'm sure it must have upset her terribly.
No full-frequency data is kept, only 300 top-trigrams are identified. A quick through the source also reveals wooorm/trigrams, and wooorm/udhr, as sources!
I'd love to see Clevo/Sager laptops on that grid. Plus screen resolution filters.
I just want to say that I completely agree with all the points you made. I just finished attending the Techstars' Patriot Boot Camp. And while this program isn't meant to be a traditional accelerator program, I really got a sense for what Techstars does and how they operate. Even though this event was highly condensed I learned a lot about my business and got a tremendous amount of value from the program.
One of the things we're taught in lethal force (gun) self-defense classes is to be extremely careful about intervening in situations we know nothing about, it can be very hard to figure them out.

Which is critical not only as a matter of morals, but because it's illegal to intervene on the side of an aggressor. And there can be two stages of that, the first to threaten or use physical force, and the first to threaten or use lethal force. The definition of the latter is complicated, not to mention controversial and subject to second guessing etc., especially when the other person doesn't have a weapon.

The general advice is don't, or as Massad Ayoob puts it, if you were in a hospital and saw a random person needing low 6 figures of medical care, would you give him a check for it? Because that's what it takes to adequately defend yourself against a serious criminal charge.
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Hi all,
I've written a todo app tutorial, and would greatly appreciate and benefit from some review. Check it out over at https://github.com/jadekler/git-swift-todo-tutorial.
Any feedback is hugely appreciated!
Homebrew is installing stuff from source, though. It's automating the task of me doing it.
Data collection should not be limited by charging for more collaborators
We've seen similar things with cigarettes in some areas.

But I would have to assume that the majority of people wishing to partake in such drugs would prefer the legal route if it is available to them. Unless you're talking an obscene amount of difference in pricing. But then the free market should kick in because if the government wants the tax revenue the pricing will have to be adjusted.

Of course, I'm never shocked to see governments plan to spend all that nice new tax revenue that never appears due to their own policies.
I also imagine there will be a lot of false positives that will inure strangers to responding. It doesn't take a lot of people who are jumpy and push the button when a tree moves in the wind to overwhelm legitimate calls for help. Even 911, which is harder to use, gets drilled into us as being only for emergencies, and has serious legal consequences for extreme abuse, gets a ton of stupid calls.
Just curious about one of the last steps:

cat /proc/53165/exe > /tmp/oldBash

I would have reached for 'cp /proc/53165/exe /tmp/oldBash', instead of using cat. Is there an advantage to using cat here, or is it just the same?
This is the ultimate accessibility. Imagine a blind person speaking to the website and having the website talk back.
Swating-as-a-service
You don't even need to do that. The USB key can just announce to the computer "Hi I'm a USB hub. I have a keyboard and a USB flash drive plugged into me."
Ever lost a switch? Rare, but happens on a regular enough case to prepare against it. Even if you use bonding/teaming, with dual power supply network kit + servers, it can still happen.
Here's the layman's version:

Some particles are actual particles - like photons, electrons, protons, etc. Think of them as a droplet of water.

Some particles are not really particles, but kind of behave like a particle in some ways. Think of them as bubbles inside a liquid.

If you ignore the air inside, the bubbles don't really exist - they are just the absence of some liquid, that happens to look sort of like a particle with funky properties. Similarly, the particles described in this article don't really exist - they are "holes" in a lattice of other particles, that can mathematically be treated as if they were particles, but aren't actually real in a non-mathematical way.

That said, if Quantum Mechanics has taught us anything, it's that those "purely mathematical" concepts can have very real impacts on the world, so in a sense, it is exciting that these "pseudo-particles" have been found to exist, because the maths might reveal all sorts of funky shit we can do with them that would be impossible with regular particles, and the maths doesn't care that they're not regular particles - it works with either kind of particle.
Very nice, thanks. Comparable price to the Thinkpad (my current favorite). The only think missing is the button mouse (probably the reason Thinkpads are my favorite), but I just picked up a Logitech T650 trackpad this week, and am forcing myself to get used to it, due to RSI issues. By gosh, this looks like it just might work!
Is there online demo anywhere on the web?
This was a fun read and great hack. Thanks for sharing.
I use Mou every day as well. But the goal of this project seems very vague. Exactly what is going to be added in the "1.0" release? Mou works pretty well for me right now. What is going to be added that will make it worth my while sponsoring this project?

The project vaguely states: "We'll pick the most wanted features from our contributors, implement them in 1.0." But there needs to be a little more meat here. What are some examples of the types of features you are considering? What are the new killer features that will be coming?
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The rise and fall of the interactive movie
I think it's worse than that. Many people do care, in the opposite way that we think they should. There are a lot of people who outright approve of these programs because they think they're necessary and that they help keep us safe.

I personally think that all the outrage at the government is misplaced. They are ultimately just doing what the people want. The US isn't groping airline passengers and holding terror suspects for years without trial and torturing people for information and spying on its own citizens because the government is running out of control and the people can't reign it in. They're doing these things because "the people", as a whole, want it. Demand it in many cases.

If we want change, we must convince the population of our views. The rest will follow naturally if that can be done. No, I have no idea how.
I'll try to whip one up today and post it to the README.
Understanding higher-order code for free
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility#Rea...

The only example of a person on the street not being helped is actually completely fabricated by the inept police of the time.
Beautiful Hand Painted Cabinets [Etsy]
I don't work for MemSQL. I know what I know from various posts on Quora, and the MemSQL engg blog itself. So take everything I say with a grain of salt.

MemSQL has two modes (if I am right): synchronous and asynchronous. I believe, if you're a bank, you'd want the first one. But if high throughput is your priority, you can afford to sacrifice durability for that, I think MemSQL would be an extremely fast solution compared with other disk-first datastores.

One thing that memory-first datastores (MemSQL, VoltDB) would be really good at is lots of reads.
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Monitoring of websites for free
You wrote the style guide for Wikipedia's mathematics articles, didn't you? ;)

(By which I mean, a balance between immediate understanding vs. links for detail >> primarily links for detail without immediate understanding)
How do project owners use pull requests on GitHub?
Code Complete, 2nd Edition.

Rating [][][][][][][][ ][ ][ ] => [7]

Level [][][][][][*][ ][ ][ ][ ] => [6]

Basic => Intermediate

Pages => 753

This is a generalist book with lots of references to more advanced topics about programming.
Beautiful description.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese#Public...

You should read the 5th paragraph down.
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Didn't see mine on there (Asus N56JR). I do something similar on Newegg and Microcenter's site when I shop for a laptop for myself or someone else--narrow down based on specific specs I want and then compare the results based on reviews and other details.

I wanted something I could use for mobile DJing/VJing and some 2d/3d content creation capability. I was looking for 15" or larger, i7, decent nVidia GPU, 16GB RAM, 1920x1080 or better, and at least 500GB storage.

The Asus uses a 1TB HDD and not a SSD and the display is OK but not amazing. Still, it was tough to find something similar for anywhere near the $900 it cost and the relatively good build quality. It's obviously aping the look of a Macbook but since I have stock in neither company that's not really important to me. Couldn't find much else with those specs without spending several hundred dollars more.
My pleasure! It was a lot of fun hunting all this down, I just had to share it :-)
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Are SD cards subject to this vulnerability in the same way? I'm vaguely aware that there are also security issues with SD card firmware.
This looks awesome! I love following what you're up to. Can't wait to see a blog post about it later :)

FYI: I think your ?hn querysting is still rendering "Welcome Product Hunters!" O_o
Good question. Well, when you have forgotten everything about a 10 lines long command line you wrote 6 months ago, you don't know what side effects a signal may cause... You don't have the heart to signal anything, except surrender. Luckily, I found a workaround :-)
Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: row-level security and policies
Abstracting away all the iOS 8 LocationManager's changes
Well, Las Vegas as a city of lights also exists due to the cheap electricity that the dam provided too.
Focus Emotions. Look for Emotions. Share Emotions.
> You mean like the photon and, iirc, all the other neutrally charged elementary particles?

You are missing the point. Photon (and every such other elementary particle that annihilates itself we know) is a boson.

Majorana fermion is a fermion whose anti-particle is itself. No such elementary particle exists (so far).

What these people have done is a way of arranging some electrons such that they behave like Majorana fermions.
I had similar constraints in some areas, and ended up with a Dell Latitude (so I could get the back-lit keyboard) 14" (so it wouldn't have a number pad), 1600x900 screen. I'm pretty sure most your other constraints could be configured for when buying.
You get put on a list, then what?

If they were sending people off to concentration camps, I'd be cautious. As it is, I'd be proud to be on some NSA list. Come on, let's do it, NSA. What exactly are you going to with me on such a list, browse my porn?
Really? I am not going to comment on the first sentence, but how I am going to say that it is pretty hard not to blame this on Howard. While it should have been much harder for one person to do all of this, it certainly is still his fault.
We have a system like what you describe here, but for electricity.

The "problem" is that the large users go off the grid (via solar, etc). Well, that is not a problem. The problem is that this introduces variability into the grid. That variability is expensive to smooth over, with the result that it can actually be more expensive as a fully loaded cost to supplement your power with solar than getting it from the grid, due to the equipment needed to manage the sun's mood swings.

The result of all this is it is really hard to get the incentives right for pricing electricity. I suspect the same is true for water; it is hard to store, there are demand spikes, and there are things like private wells that have weird effects on the water available to everyone else.
How would you actually fix it? Ban HID devices from being plugged into a USB hub at all? Because outside of that I haven't heard of any proposals, and that is frankly unworkable given the how many devices are designed with a single USB port under the assumption that you can HUB-in more.
Did they require laptops? I've worked in finance department in the past and everyone either had a desktop computer or a laptop with a docking station.
Proof that engineers are not purely functional
Indeed! No idea what went through my brain when I wrote that :-)
不: not

闻: hear

若: good

见: see

之: have

知: know

looks easy :)
SD cards have a microcontroller on them, and I believe some card readers use USB bus, so they probably are also vulnerable.
Quick test:

ron? snn
fra? cat
swe? nds
ita? und
nld? gax

Source:

var franc = require('franc');
console.log('ron?', franc('Cate bere ai baut?'));
console.log('fra?', franc('C\'est quoi le bordel la, putain'));
console.log('swe?', franc('Jag kanner en bot, hon heter Anna'));
console.log('ita?', franc('che guai'));
console.log('nld?', franc('graag gedaan'));
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> For a particle to be its own antiparticle, it would have to have spin 1/2

This is wrong. Being anti-particle has nothing to do with a particular spin. Photon is anti-photon (which by the way has spin 1).
There are creative, smart people everywhere
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Except of course the kind of violence that people are often concerned about takes a while, and having a panic button that conspiciously calls for help can be quite useful.

If you're just being robbed, you just give them your money; but if you're about to be raped and/or kidnapped, this could quite possibly save your life.
US companies hire them on H1 visas.
These people appear talented enough.
Yeah, I'm too sick of giving money to MS for an OS I never use, and too worried about Apple's approach to computing (wall ALL the gardens!!) to give money to either company at this point, but finding something that doesn't come with an OS or comes with Ubuntu is a pain. You've got a few small shops (in particular system76, with whom I had a pretty terrible experience regarding the galago ultra pro), and the Dell Sputnik.
The minimum of what a bank needs to operate includes your phone and contact details, social security number, your financial account number, your credit card number and your credit rating, for sure? Because, you know... they provide many of those number to you!
Bystander effect only applies if everyone sees that many other people could be helping, AFAIK. If you don't know how many people around got the alert, I think it's similar to being the only person who did?
Hi! Just curious on general emscripten work - how long does it take to port something like this? What are the main hurdles, and things that you can get stuck on?
> ... none of us would have to remember if adding a link uses () or [] first again (I always get it backwards)

I also often forgot, until I read this paraphrased explanation [0]: when we write, we are much more likely to parenthesize than "bracketize" (as in this parenthetical), so the square brackets [] go first when making a link. This makes it easier for the parser.

[0] I read this in a comment on HN, but sadly I cannot find the comment, else I would give proper attribution.
I applied to FitBit a few months ago through LinkedIn but never heard anything in response. Is it OK to apply again; can I get in touch about my previous application?
Ha! Some very nice examples, I have to say :)

Anyway, You’re completely right. Italian is `und` due to LTE 10 characters, the others are slightly off due to short input too, but the demo (http://wooorm.github.io/franc/) shows the correct languages in the second or third place though!
> For the record, I greatly prefer confusing to misleading.

On this much, we agree -- in general at least.

OTOH, often, there are good reasons for prefering particular misleading descriptions over more confusing but less misleading ones (pedagogically, for instance, sequences of progressively-less-misleading explanations are often used, each of which is designed to limit how confusing it is to the target audience, to develop progressively better understanding.)
Yes, the obvious scenario is:

1. Creep wants to hurt vulnerable people.
2. Creep buys this system.
3. Creep waits for vulnerable people to be in trouble.
4. Creep shows up on the scene and collaborates with the attacker(s).
I do this leg pretty frequently. Always on time, always efficient.
It already exists for the elderly (Life Alert bracelets.)
It would be exciting to be wandering the streets at night, waiting for a distress call to come in. The moment the bat signal -- ahem, the Gaspard -- lights up, you sweep in and rescue the damsel in distress from her assailant (naturally he collapses like a throwaway movie ninja), and you earn her undying respect and loyalty.

This could work excellently in a comic. I'm not sure how well it can work in the real world. Maybe if they make it really clear the focus is not on racing into battle with the evil assailant, but on just heading over to ask if everything's okay, that could be more useful.

In real life, I can imagine so many disasters unfolding -- like, you sprint into an alleyway in response to a call, and see a bleeding woman on the ground with a burly man crouching over her. Q1: His back is to you -- can you take him out before he realizes you're there? Q2: he's actually a passerby, and the actual assailant fled a minute ago. How long will it take you to figure that out?

Or just -- escalating violence would be fairly common when totally untrained people race in to deal with violence, but (as other commenters are pointing out) the "good guy" and "bad guy" roles in people's heads don't correspond with the legal outcomes of it all.
I'll try and summarise it.

Ubiquitous Language is a term used in BDD and DDD and just means 'the shared language that you build with non-technical people'. It largely involves using business terms as much as possible, but often you have to try and agree some naming when talking to non-technical folk to resolve ambiguities. UL is not a technical concept, it's a way to focus on how you're expressing concepts in conversation.

In BDD we use this shared language to have conversations with customers about requirements, in the form of examples. In DDD we use a shared language to have conversations with customers about business process and rules. This article is bringing those two approaches together.

The stuff at the end is showing how the internal domain modelling (class naming, method naming, argument choice) can be taken directly from the conversation you had with the customer when you've had that conversation effectively. The significance is that the 'modelling' effort happens less in the developer's realm and more in the collaborative realm of customer communication.

Disclaimer: I work with the author of the article, use these techniques, and profit from their adoption
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You know you have a useful tool when most of your feedback on HN are feature requests! Nice job.
Yes , a civil war would be awful, but maybe as a result we'll see democracy in Gaza and a chance for peace with Israel.

On the other hand, is there any other realistic scenario where Hamas is replaced by a peaceful party? Or even Hamas being transformed into a peaceful party ? I'd love to hear a realistic one.
Is remote working a possibility for this role?
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Thanks for sharing, nice work!

Quick question the Julius website says there is no English acoustic model available [1], how did you solve this? Do you provide a default acoustic model?

[1] http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_index.php?q=en_grammar.html
My dad's a doctor: his bit of the NHS has never allowed USB devices anywhere near any computer on any of their sites. HIDs are whitelisted by device ID iirc, and physically secured.

I'm guessing somebody there looked at the spec back in the 90s and gave it two thumbs down.
+1. That's precisely my first hand experience.
Hey, working code is the only justification you need :)
So what, exactly, is this? Software (windows only?) to inject rubberducky/modify the firmware of regular Phison USB drives? Can this possibly be applied to other USB drives as well, or does this require entirely different firmware/patchers?

What does the hidden partition patch do?

This all seems extremely interesting (and scary), but I'm having a hard time understanding what exactly it is.
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