skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fairly common practice throughout Europe and even in some part of the US (e.g. Vegas). You can even request certain brands of water be left in your room from their water menu.

As long as they clearly label them as a cost+ and provide you those dinky plastic cups you can drink tap water with, I am happy.

3 euros, 3 pounds sterling, or 3 dollars is common. I guess the US wins in the "over-priced-water-in-your-room" war. There must be something magical about the $3 price tag.
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Experiment is the arbiter of truth :).
This story reminds me about trying to choose the companies I buy products from more carefully. I'm doing much better this year. My rule of thumb is happy employees are a pretty good sign the company isn't evil. Like costco, or whole foods.

Amazon is tough because I don't actually interact with any employees, but if half the stuff I read online is even partially true, they have a lot of progress to make.

One of their recruiters contacted me a few weeks ago, and a quick search about what it's like to be a web developer there helped me decide not to respond.

I should really find a replacement for amazon prime... not the best feeling knowing I'm supporting the lawyers on imo the wrong side of this article.
Did you go through the Matasano crypto challenges (http://cryptopals.com)? I'm sure they could inspire you.
Dokku has most of the key features of Heroku for free and even deploys the same buildpacks.
can someone explain why does the infected machine have to connect to Reddit to read the list of IP addresses?
Wow, awesome! I will start playing with it today. Thanks!
Ideally, it wouldn't be a case where one country shoulders the burden. If there are any justifications at all for multinational cooperation, this would probably be an easy sell.

We already devote a massive amount of funding to foreign aid -- about $48 billion in economic and military assistance in 2012 according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid). We sent about $13 billion to Afghanistan and Pakistan alone in 2012, according to nationalpriorities.org. This is a pretty good match for private-sector pharmaceutical R&D expenditures, about $51 billion in 2013 according to one industry lobbyist (www.phrma.org).
These types of articles are great, but too frequently I see phrases such as, "It makes testing much simpler" sprinkled throughout them without any justification. These claims are generally not untrue, but it seems like it would be appropriate to demonstrate scenarios of the unit and e2e tests actually being affected by decisions in the application code.
The journal structure is quite destructive, but I think it's clear that we're in the midst of a major internet-driven disruption and trend toward openness. Many papers are published to reputable free journals these days.

I'd like it if the non-financial aspects of the journal structure remained the same, so as to group ideas/editorial groups/communities together, preserving the unique character of each journal and allowing people producing papers to target their submissions accurately. Freeness and openness of the information contained within is a must, though-- proprietary journal information is a racket which helps nobody.
Public transit in places like SF is generally not fast or convenient, so many people choose taxis. Maybe it's just the rich that make that choice, but the median household income in San Francisco is $72,947 so there are a lot of rich people.
So ripe for disruption... in a hundred years?
The keyboard on the X230 is actually quite good, especially compared to its contemporaries. I believe you can swap it out for the older style X220 one as well.

(But I think I'll be sticking with my 4:3 T61 until shortscreens fall out of favor)
In Los Angeles it's huge. Especially for night-life.

Now, it's easy enough to pay a small fee to avoid a DUI. My wife works Lyft occasionally for rush-hours, and from her experience quite a lot of people using it to get to/from work can't drive due to a recent DUI.

As far as taking a taxi:
Previously you wouldn't ever even consider using a Taxi unless you absolutely had no other option including calling in favors from friends and family or splitting it 4 ways with friends. Only way I'd ever take a Taxi to/from the airport is if it's on the company dime. Lyft/Uber turned a $65-70 taxi ride into $20-30.

We take it occasionally for night-life and have noticed nearly all the drivers that we asked that have over a few months wised up and do Lyft & Uber simultaneously.
Why are so many managers useless as leaders?
It's hard enough to explain this kind of stuff to one intelligent businessperson--there's just so much background knowledge that goes into understanding this. Explaining this to 12 jurors, half of whom will likely be of below average intelligence, is a pretty much impossible task. Sadly I think this case will be won on the charisma of the lawyers rather than facts which will go over most jurors' heads.
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You should let me buy you coffee sometime to make up for being dismissive of TS. :)
It'd be about break-even if they have a convention each week, and get 25 exhibitors pay $500 each. So if they had a lot of exhibitors they convinced to pay, they could have easily made a profit after the fine.
LOL!! IKR
I would note that Isreal has a total land area of around 21,000 km^2. California has 400,000 km^2 of land, and has about 175,000 km^2 of of agricultural land alone. While there is sure to be something to be learned from the Israeli experience, there's no reason to believe that those lessons scale to the size of the problem CA has. In particular, things like use of greenhouses on commiserate scale is probably infeasible.
In playing around with dokku for use on my VPS I just generally got the impression that it wasn't ready to be used in production. I repeatedly ran into snags or bugs, but so many steps had been automagically taken care of by dokku that I oftentimes didn't even know where to begin to look to try to resolve them. If something like dokku is going to do these things automatically it needs to do so much more reliably, otherwise it's worse than nothing at all.

I do believe dokku (or something else like it) will be the go-to in the future, but I think that's a ways off yet.
Author here.

These are the most important things I learned about engineering management after five years of doing it. There are lots of subtleties between the lines, so let me know if anything feels vague and I'll try to clarify it.
What features are built in to PHP that aren't built in to Ruby and Python?

This is actual curiosity, I just can't think of anything that PHP has that Ruby and Python don't. Even more so when it comes to Go. But you didn't mention Go.
Why women leave tech: It's the culture, not because 'math is hard'
I'm not negating that proposition. I am saying that people have alternatives in life and I can't imagine a life on Earth that is so bad that moving somewhere that has no water, no atmosphere, no food, no anything would be better.

Chance of dying -- high. Chance of having children -- low. This is not rocket science, as they say.
First of all, why not? If a corporation does something that would be worthy of prison in an individual, shut them down for a period of time as punishment.

Second, even if you accept that, you could at least fine them an amount that will cause harm, rather than an amount they'll barely notice.
Yeah I agree it's an oversimplification. It's tough when writing a piece like this where a deep level of language knowledge is required to make a clear explanation. I tried to lead people toward the cause without getting bogged down in too many details.

Thanks for the example!
Hey here are the files that you can't play inline.
How would you block wifi then? Sending deauth frames is the only way to contain a rogue AP without physical access. Generally these systems are used to enforce corporate network security policies by making sure Joe in accounting can't breach your top-secret network by plugging in a $25 wifi router so he can use his iPad on the office network.

I'm not sure what the legal standing is once you get to publicly accessible spaces like colleges, stadiums, conference centers, etc.
The OS can't look at the device until it's plugged in (obviously); the device plugs into the USB bus, which then gets compromised before the OS even knows anything is there.

To extend my (now hilariously) tortured analogy, granny is stuck in bed, she can't check if it's a wolf until the butler knows there's someone at the door. As soon as he sees the wolf, he is compromised. Maybe a vampire would have been a better metaphor?

[EDIT] actually I should dump the analogies altogether: this is a hardware vulnerability, not software. It hits the computer, the operating system is helpless. That’s why the problem, for existing computers, is not apparently fixable.
That's true, that's the other side of the coin. Still, I think trying to change government without first changing the people is futile.
I don't think what they did to you guys was legal:

"“Consumers who purchase cellular data plans should be able to use them without fear that their personal
Internet connection will be blocked by their hotel or conference center,”"

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014...
http://www.fcc.gov/document/marriott-pay-600k-resolve-wifi-b...
The `fleetctl` command is incredible. Just being able to say "give me six RethinkDB nodes" without having to ssh into six machines, or writing chef/puppet scripts feels like a small improvement, but it makes everything dramatically better in practice.
It's amazing to think about the scale of these shipping operations. 70% of the world's freight is still moved by Ocean, you really take it for granted the journey products sometimes make before reaching your hands.
Maybe.

It's extremely difficult to imagine a world in which distributed, unspecialized manufacturing is actually a reasonable way for most people to get their goods.

One argument many people have made is look at the personal computing revolution, shouldn't we see the same thing in physical manufacturing?

And the answer is: yes, we will the same thing. But look at what is actually happening: you have a brief 20-30 year period in which distributed personal computing actually happens, but then once the internet comes about things have slowly started migrating back to centralization and specialization (ie: Facebook instead of distributed social networking).

I expect the same will happen with 3d printing. Sure, 3d printing might be the best way to print that obscure part you need for an old car. But for every day items? Unlikely that the efficiency gain made by getting rid of shipping is actually offset by printing something in your house on demand.
$210B industry per the article.
US actually has (arguably) the worlds best freight rail system in large part because the size makes long distance trucking less appealing. The real issue is cars and air traffic is heavily subsidized and freight has priority on most lines.

PS: For comparison the entire EU moved less than 1/10th a much freight miles (Mass * distance) as the US dispite having a similar sized economy.
Is KrebsOnSecurity.com under attack?
I wanted to read his piece on the FBI's account of Silk Road's server configuration but it seems http://krebsonsecurity.com/ is inaccessible and http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-road-lawyers-poke-holes-in-fbis-story/ refuses to load or timeout.
USB armory – a open hardware flash drive sized computer
Dropbear (SSH access) still requires you to manually log in and unlock the disks; a primary feature of Mandos is that it can boot completely unattended (unless configured otherwise).
Except that the crawler now executes a lot of Javascript: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understan...
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> SF which seems to be where Uber gets the most usage has the BART which is great, and you can always walk.

Uh, do you even live in the bay. I don't but I know that the BART is pricey, stops running late, and the bay is filled with places you'd never walk at night.
Lyft cut prices and earnings for their drivers then posted a pretty detached message about in in their Lounge.

Responses and messages: http://elsewhe.re/XrEY

I think it's pretty obvious that this isn't an "Uber attack" or some conspiracy, but the result of both companies racing to the bottom when it comes to driver compensation and benefits.

The problem is that Uber has always made it clear they're about efficiency and bottom line, whereas Lyft has tried to cultivate a 'community' feel. It stings more when your 'community' option turns out to be just the same as the 'money-grubbing' option.
>I expressed myself in a very absolute way

No worries - didn't come across wrong. Personally I was a little miffed about scoring a snazzy SD USB adapter...that turned out to be "crippled"...but hey...gift.

>Nevertheless, there needs to be back pressure.

Thats tricky - firstly I can't jeopardize a big contract by complaining about a trivial gift (!). Secondly the company in question is "truly" innocent / oblivious here. They get a marketing catalog and pick 100 of item X. Not sure how one would reach such a marketing company - but they are the culprits here.
That's precisely what Marriot was doing in this case, so yes, it would be against FCC rules.
I think it generated less comments because a lot of the content has been seen before, frequently. It needs to be in that course, but the HN audience has probably read a lot of that advice already.

I'm expecting much of this course to repeat things we already know from reading PG's essays and other blogs, condensed and clarified. That's not a bad thing, as you said it's good to keep it in our heads. And I think there will be new nuggets of wisdom embedded in the stuff we "already know".
I definitely don't expect Windows or OS X to turn into Linux. I think they each have advantages for the people who are using them. The grandparent was talking about hackability, and I was saying I don't think OS X counts as hackable just because the kernel is open source. There is a lot more that's closed source surrounding that kernel that makes it OS X.
Google Working on Large-Scale Video Displays
Just get Calibre and convert your pdf to epub.
I have to agree with you. Dokku is REALLY neat, don't get me wrong, but after working more or less perfectly for a month or so (Only with 2 projects running) I tried to add a new one and everything went to hell. My old projects started having problems and like you I had no clue where to start. I will keep an eye on Dokku along with things like Deis which I also have high hopes for.
I think you're thinking of ActiveCollab
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If the original TOR cert was discovered in an unlawful search, and then they did a scan of the public internet to find it again in a legal search, that's parallel construction.
Eh, I'm not sure. Even with completely local production (if that miracle ever happens), you still need raw materials, and moving a lot at once is very cost effective. Just like trains beat busses beat cars on total cost per unit moved.

Maersk's (and other similar companies') big idea was that if you put things in regularly sized containers, you can a) Calculate space very easily and use space efficiently b) Not worry about packing things at the dock and let the customer best pack the thing as opposed to you wasting time on it c) Use the same container to move the goods across ground too d)Reuse the container. So this was kinda IKEA flat packing before IKEA existed.

It really is hard to beat the economies of scale here - even the largest cargo planes move laughably small amounts compared to these things. Drones? No way.

Drone, I think, could disrupt something else, which is house delivery. Small weight, short distance. That's what it'd be good at.
I wonder why US ports are too small? Anyone know?

Also curious that the Suez canal is wider than the Panama?
1. No, I don't think this is LP at all. LP is about controlling ordering and pretty rendering. This is more like Cobol in the support for parsing english. (/me ducks.)

2. Are you aware of any comprehensive rebuttals of LP? I'm working on one myself at the moment, so any pointers would be most appreciated.
You and I think they're pretty, but we're weird by most standards. If you're coming from the mac version of pretty, tiling WMs are a turn-off visually
It appears from the pictures that the crew has access to every single cargo container during the voyage? I wonder why that would be necessary?
I find the Postgres dev documentation to be much clearer than most things, honestly.
The "trap" of MongoDB was more due to the exaggerated marketing around its features and data reliability out-of-the-box. Since Postgres already has plenty of mindshare, it wouldn't need to resort to such tactics, so it could describe its features with "giant red exclamation points" describing the exact pitfalls and extent of the use cases. So I'd be very much in favor of its developers prioritizing specific clustering solutions.
Do they have any issues with pirates sailing that close to Somalia?
I wonder why you chose to use trigrams. Trigrams require a lot more data to get representative statistics, and the UDHR isn't big enough for that (you'd want a million words). Furthermore, I would think that for the task of language detection, a simple unigram model would be sufficient; i.e., just choose the language with the maximum recall of word tokens from its corpus with respect to the input. I think this would work better on short sentences as well.

And excluding the preamble doesn't make your test more meaningful, the text is still in a very particular domain and writing style.

EDIT: I had assumed trigrams meant word trigrams; character trigrams are a good choice for this.
Since Ubuntu decided to migrate in the future to systemd [1] you may consider it as a good investment

[1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
When Ben Bernanke can't refinance his house loan
The single vigilante behind Facebook's 'real name' crackdown
This is one of the first sites I learned about from HN a few years ago. Extremely useful.
First Steps in Testing Analytics: Does Test Code Quality Matter?
>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.

only at the currently explored quantum scales. Digging deeper the "actual particles" might as well happen to be just such bubbles.

>the bubbles don't really exist

probing an electron to some fermis has found so far no "liquid" only "air".

One can start suspecting that "real particles" are something like "air bubbles" too when one looks at the fact that the farther you try to separate the quarks of a particle the stronger the opposing force - pretty much like trying to expand the size of an "air bubble" inside the "liquid"
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Check out Openshift (https://www.openshift.com), I am currently using the free tier to host static blogs and static sites; quite frankly, it's not bad
I think we should gradually raise the cost of water, especially to farms that pay orders of magnitude less than residential. If rice farmers can't stay in business if we reduce water subsidies then they should go out of business.
> ...but inside a datacenter, network partitions are rare

It's ... complicated.

http://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable
More concerningly, I'd venture 70% of freight travels in a 5 seater SUV with a single person at the wheel.
The same over here. I stayed at a DoubleTree (also a Hilton hotel) in Monrovia CA a few weeks ago. They also had a bottle of water on the desk with a $5 USD price tag.

Ironically, they gave me at least $5 worth of chocolate chip cookies when I checked in.
The Suez is sea level, so there are no locks.

Panama is working on a new set of locks and other expansions (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_projec...) that will allow for post-Panamax ships.
Dokku's definitely a young project and has its teething problems. We've been using a fork of it called Dokku-alt which is getting a bit more love these days - I'd give that a shot.

https://github.com/dokku-alt/dokku-alt
Can you throw on a screen resolution axis option?
> Heroku is costly for that kind of setup, but I haven't found anything else that gives me the same peace of mind and sunny weekends.

If it's costing you enough that you can hire someone to do devops then do just that, hire someone. If not then you're actually saving money vs the cost of the employee.
This sentence:

>>Would you not agree that a data breach brought on by a disgruntled employee selling records is materially different than the same data breach caused by failure to patch systems?

Directly contradicts this one:

>>I don't care about the investigation (where did you get any implication I think investigations should be public); I care about the results.

The result is that people's credit card information got stolen. The investigation and the details -- i.e. whether it was an internal or external breach -- are not relevant to me as the customer.