skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the waste water treatment process like? Is any effort being made to replenish the original sources? My understanding is that the water is brought in with pipelines from across a natural water shed that way almost none of the extracted water will return to its original place, instead it will either evaporate and carried out to the sea if used for irrigation or flushed out as waste water.
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Could Amazon Glacier use some pre-consumer form of this technology?
Both matter and antimatter? You mean like the photon and, iirc, all the other neutrally charged elementary particles?

New quasi-particle is Majorana. :b
The caption really dates the article: "Every era has its defining drug. Neuroenhancers are perfectly suited for our efficiency-obsessed, BlackBerry-equipped office culture."
It's an interesting result for solid-state physicists, but the title is very confusing to the layman. The finding is about quasi particles that have the same properties as a Majorana fermion (a Majorana bound state), due to how electrons behave in a superconductor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion#Majorana_boun...). They did not detect a Majorana fermion itself. This is satisfactorily explained in the article, but the title is sensationalist.
Why did eBay succeed?
Octodon: All-fingers keyboard for smartphones and tablets
Sophisticated iPhone and Android malware is spying on Hong Kong protesters
Citibike availability heatmap
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Once you know what font it is, find the closest google font with this:

http://joelcrawfordsmith.com/new/
Google Fiber Leaves a Digital Divide
A biological module need not be pointed at to be functional. You can reason about a module given its properties while simultaneously continue to look for what constitutes that module.

Chomsky has argued that this module could be standing alone, or it could be something that actively recruits from other mental faculties. There is nothing in his writings that suggest that this module can only be separate one, or that language as a whole must be reduced to one gene. In fact, Chomsky and few others are strong believers that whatever gave rise to language did give rise to a whole set of other mental capabilities, and this is exactly what research into complex tooling is confirming.

This article does not contradict the ideas that originated with Chomsky in the slightest, despite some paragraphs claiming otherwise.
The 1% has bought its own internet. What's next? Words with Rich People?
This could also be a HUGE step for all anti-parallel construction cases out there. Not only will it embolden other lawyers to look for details in their cases that might point to parallel construction, therefore leading to more such discoveries, but the government should also freak out that their parallel-constructed cases (I assume they have at least hundreds we don't know about, possibly thousands) would get invalidated, and might actually stop getting information this way.
Gnod Things is my "map products" project. This is my latest iteration. Now you can change the axis and filter for parameters. Any feedback is much appreciated.
New Map Exposes Previously Unseen Details of Seafloor
Cloudian let's you build private Amazon S3 cloud at $1ct/GB
I'm sorry - I just read that other thread you linked to. Others made the same point to you then, and you still seem stuck on that point.

RFCs are not like ISO standards. The name says it all: "request for comments".

RFCs reflect the ideal of "rough consensus and running code".

The SRV RFC was written by an author from Microsoft aimed at domain controller discovery. They probably didn't think of HTTP at all.

There's an expired draft RFC for SRV+HTTP[1].

You are right: SHOULD NOT should be taken seriously. But if you are (say) Mozilla, Microsoft or Google and writing a webbrowser you probably know enough to understand when you can break a RFC.

How do you think TCP-fast-start happened?

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-andrews-http-srv-01
> The second problem is that some of the details are impossible, such as seeing the IP address in the "packet headers".

If the frontend server in Germany is reverse proxying through to the backend server in Iceland, then sure, a user is not going to see the Icelandic server's IP in the source IP field of the packets. But I don't see this as definitive proof of the FBI's assertion being a flat out lie. The IP could easily have been exposed in the packet body.

What happens if you visited the captcha URL with a HTTP/1.0 request without Host header? If the resulting URL generated any self-referential links, what did they use as the hostname? If the Host header is available the norm is to use this, but if not then the script may use the server's FQDN or IP address. If it sent a 301/302 redirect in the HTTP response headers, then that _must_ contain a hostname according to the RFC (it shouldn't be relative), so what was used there? There's nothing in the nginx config that rewrote such response headers.

What happens if you make malformed requests to the captcha URL? Do you get an error page with the IP address embedded, or something that references an object hosted on the IP?

These are just two possibilities, and yes, neither would lead to the IP being exposed in the 'packet headers'. But it's very feasible for it to be exposed in the packet body, so it seems silly to hang the entire argument on the basis that one word is correct, without considering the alternatives.
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It's not ok to murder people, but with different drug laws, people wouldn't be murdered.
TS Austin 2014

Techstars Austin was an invaluable experience for our team. It seems like the founders did not factor the opportunity for personal growth when they made their decision. Some may argue that the company's growth comes first, but sometimes that can only happen when the founders are growing too.

We were the youngest company in our class. We actually used the Techstars investment as a means to incorporate and set everything up. Another factor is that all of us were first time founders. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure all 11 companies in our class had first time founders.

The Austin program was broken into three phases:

Month 1 - Mentor Meetings: For the first four weeks we had dozens of meetings with the program's mentors. The mentors were a healthy mix of past Techstars founders, angels, VCs, and biz dev partners. It was exhausting at the time (5-6/day, 4 days/week), but definitely worth it. We used the meetings as pitch practice, and iterated how we described our business along the way. I also learned a lot about my co-founders in those meetings. Seeing them describe our business to other people was very revealing about how they felt about things. Super valuable.

Month 2 - Development: The second month was all about taking the first month of endless feedback and getting to work on advancing our business. We used the second month to build our MVP, speak with potential customers, and build partnerships. The Techstars staff was hands off, but were a big help whenever we asked for it. We accomplished a lot in our second month.

Month 3 - Fundraising/Demo Day: The Techstars staff started to get more hands on in the last month to help us with our Demo Day pitch and fundraising plans. There was more structure, but we had the absolute freedom to do what we wanted. It was a bit distracting from our business the last few weeks, but the experience of Demo Day was amazing and completely worth it.

I highly recommend Techstars for any company with first time founders. We were able to go from polished idea to MVP within three months, and achieve a high level of personal growth at the same time. It's also worth mentioning that I now have 50+ amazing new friends that went through the same experience I did.
POISON PI sniffs WiFi from your mail room, goes on rampage
How to find growing files on Linux
Can Wearable Technology Prevent Murders?
Oh dear...
Its not even BSD-based...
Its Mach based(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)) with a BSD userland. (Read BSD-API). So its "BSD-based" in the same way as Windows is Posix-based (as it too can have a Posix userland API).

Linux != UNIX.
BSD != OSX
Several of the folks who work there have already answered this question on Quora.
And yet your original comment didn't say that, it just immediately went #notallmen. If you admit there's a problem, start with that. If you must start a tone fight, do it as an aside.
There is more to being antimatter than just having the opposite charge. The spin of the particle also matters. For a particle to be its own antiparticle, it would have to have spin 1/2. All elementary fermions have that property, but not much else.

Of the 2 classes, fermions and bosons, only fermions can be their own antiparticles. Bosons are defined with having an integer spin, so they can never have spin 1/2. Of the fermions, none are known with neutral charge except for neutrinos, and we're not sure if those are Majorana particles or not.

Photons, as you mention, are bosons, with spin 1, so they can't be their own antiparticle.
Are they a 501 c3? Nope? Then no tax deduction. Calling yourself nonprofit and actually being a non profit are not one and the same under tax law.
The periodic table of tech investing
Still broken this morning.
I thought he pressed that point a little as well but assuming his lack of writing skills disqualifies his security opinion is a bit of a far jump to me.
Excuses for the off-topic question, but would you be willing to share your imdb scraper? That would be very useful to me. (My contact data is in my user profile.)
Correct, but you don't need the RFC to make SRV optional. If you'd like to use it, use it.
I never knew the 11" MBA was so heavy - MD712LL/B @ 5.8 lbs.

(But of course, it's not.)

My personal choice of axes for laptops would be weight, compute power and price, in that order of priority.
Hot or Not for Charities! Awesome idea!
Congrats on your successes! Improvely seems like a service where you knew your target customer extremely well. What approach did you take to understand your customers' needs when starting out with it? Did you already know that area extremely well, did you use the lean methodology, or something else entirely?
> and the 45 day Amtrak pass was cheaper than rent.

I'd assume not.
Truth. Last time I was there (two years ago) we could occasionally get AT&T near the telescope but it you had to hold your mouth right.
Notice that Amos was arguing for a happy-eyeballs approach, which removes the round trip. The issue isn't the wait for an extra round trip, it's making it mandatory to wait for an SRV result before using an A result.

If the language says "You MUST consult SRV records for _http2._tcp before you use the result of an A lookup", then anything that delays that SRV lookup will delay page resolution. Browsers are strongly disincentivised from making anything slow, so it's just safer not to add the extra delay point. If we specced that, no-one would do it.

Better to have what we have now, which is: do SRV if you want.
This lecture is a bit more dense in practical content, so some people like me, need more time to watch fully again and digest before echoing in a chamber :)
It doesn't cover base models that can be upgraded to match the constraints.

E.g.: If I add a constraint "laptops with at least 16 GB of RAM" it doesn't show the Retina MacBook Pro 13". Only the 15" model is shown, because there is a default configuration with said amount of RAM.
"Are you sharing your cloud with a hamster?"
I use a macbook for the battery life and the no-hassle experience (which is getting worse everyday, but that's a different discussion). Homebrew works against these two principles in multiple ways. Compiling software takes massive amounts of time; if I need to install something I want it now, dammit. In principle, there are some binary packages too, but when I tried homebrew there were not for anything that I needed.

Apart from time, compiling software consumes energy, decreasing the autonomy of my laptop.

But those are not the main reasons I dislike homebrew so much. My main gripe is that the packages are of extremely poor quality. When I needed something, it was not compiled with the options I needed. E.g. packages were missing DTrace integration, QEMU was missing the one target I cared about etc.

I am a Go developer; you have no idea how many problems people have had with the homebrew package. It is garbage. And Go is quite trivial to package compared to other stuff. I simply gave up on helping anyone reporting a problem if he is using homebrew. I ask them to recompile Go from official source first.

And then there's the whole curl into bash things, gah I'll just stop now.

The biggest advantage of pkgsrc (apart from quality binary packages) is that I can use the same package versions, compiled exactly the same (to the extent possible) on OS X, Linux, and Solaris; and these are production-ready releases used in production by Joyent (and others) vetted by actual release engineers.

And with pkgsrc it is trivial to install from source when you need to modify a package locally (unlike, say, with apt).
agree on the basketball reference, the analogy definitely made it easy to understand
> Let's go over this LOI, which is simple and straightforward and doesn't legally bind us to do anything other than...

How do you know that until you've had an attorney review it?
Different RFCs have different levels. RFC 2782 is a “Standards Track” RFC and a “Proposed Standard”, and should be taken seriously indeed (there is only one “higher” level).

The SRV RFC was not by Microsoft. It has three authors, the other two being one Arnt Gulbrandsen from Troll Tech (of the Qt library fame) and Paul Vixie of the Internet Software Consortium, who is also the author of BIND. I actually am inclined to think that they did consider HTTP seriously.
> My point here is, if you're in the military now, you're volunteering for war. If you're an injured soldier, I'm sorry you got hurt. You didn't deserve it, because nobody deserves war and mayhem. But you volunteered for it. We need to stop saying "support the troops". We need to start saying "prevent kids from joining unjust war".

I'm currently serving, and I agree. It gets tiring having complete strangers walk up to me, while I'm in uniform, and saying things like "thank you, for all that you do.", as if I should bask in the glory of their appreciation. Perhaps they really are thankful, but the whole encounter is always awkward. At first I wasn't sure how to respond, but I've settled on saying "you're welcome", even though it sounds arrogant to me. Then you have individuals and corporations who profit on this whole notion that we should donate to "support the troops" at every opportunity we get. Many of us don't deserve support. Some of us may make sacrifices at times, but that doesn't mean we deserve everyone's affection or undue favoritism. We have the same issues as any one else. I'd much rather people pressure their congressmen and women to provide the benefits our service members were guaranteed. For those that feel compelled to give, I'd urge them to do so locally by contacting their local VFW post.

Now, I don't want to seem ungrateful. There have been instances where I felt I experienced actual appreciation. Once I was out enjoying sushi with some family and friends and a stranger paid the bill. They left without us ever having known who they were. I'm grateful for what they did.
In both the cases you site would there be a trail of those requests in the server log files? If so they could have been (or will be) pointed to by the prosecution. Since the prosecution has an image of the server they should be able to demonstrate the point if needed. If they can't then I think it casts doubt on their story.
There is one way that is both extremely simple and politically impossible: start charging farmers market rates. They pay too little, use too much, and represent a gigantic portion of total water consumption.
(facepalm) Another day, another "popularized" article that confuses condensed-matter quasiparticles with real particles...
It's not inconsistent to say drug prohibition results in increased violence, and murder is wrong.
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Multi-request resolving (QDCOUNT > 1) would solve that problem, which is a lesser known feature of the DNS protocol. Clients could ask for all A, AAAA, and SRV for a given domain, and get all the replies in a single round-trip.

Few if any resolvers support this feature, but it show that the problem we have is because of legacy assumption that are no longer true. Fix those, and the problem goes away.

: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
Nice! Could you add a filter for SSD Hard drives?
Presto: An excellent way to quickly poll teams
Few comments.

1. I can't filter to a exact screen size. Inputting 13" - 13" fails.

2. What type of disk? SSD vs HDD is a huge concern in laptops. Having a filter for that will be great.

3. Some laptop models can be upgraded. This doesn't appear to cover that.

4. How often are you updating the information?
Thanks, fixed!

There are a lot of laptops on Amazon with missing or wrong specs. Im planning to have a "suggest spec changes" button, so we can have crowd-fixed-data.
By the way, it's free, so sign up and use it.
The project does not seems to state clearly how the detection is made, does it call an external webservice or does it rely on a offline database created at some time?

shameless plug https://github.com/allan-simon/Tatodetect
it covers 179 language (actually as much as Tatoeba project does) and it can run offline with explanation on how to generate your own database from a CC-by corpus.

After the advantage of Franc is that it can be used directly as a npm library while Tatodetect is a micro-webservice, and for some edge languages, Tatodetect is certainly not as good as Franc (haven't done yet a test of both to compare)
Mars rover technology adapted to detect gas leaks
Ben Heck's Raspberry Pi Point and Shoot Camera – RT Disassembly/reassembly
ShellShock: How can I update only bash without restarting
It would be interesting to see comparisons with language detection libraries written in other languages as well. Not just in terms of runtime, but also accuracy. Actually, it seems like this would be useful as a separate project to help the decision-making process when choosing a library.
No, on the contrary, the SRV standard specifies that clients SHOULD NOT use SRV records for protocols for which the standards do not explicitly allow for SRV records.
This depends on your definition of "startup". Paul Graham's definition - "a company built to grow fast", while not 100% incompatible with a bootstrapped company, certainly is in tension with the idea of not taking on outside investment.

If the goal of your company is to grow as fast as possible, then the VC rocket ship approach seems like a no-brainer.
Does that mean that existing chip and contactless systems just transmit the credit card number, as a sort of fancy version of a magstripe?
Did you ever get it to recognize the snowman? That's my go-to also. I've tried two snowballs, three snowballs, with and without arms, with and without stars, with and without hat... and all I keep getting is tongue. I am pretty bad at drawing though.
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -- John von Neumann
Composite image shows two black holes orbiting each other
Have any details come to light on how exactly the hack was achieved?
Apple backs up your Health data in iCloud, if you enable it.

"Your data in the Health app is encrypted with keys protected by your passcode, and never leaves your device unless you choose to back it up or grant access to a third-party app. When you do choose to back up your Health data through iCloud, it is encrypted both in transit and on our servers."

https://www.apple.com/privacy/privacy-built-in/
They may not have been "punished", but merchants, banks and the payment companies have finally been convinced that swipe cards should be replaced. The changeover with next year's "liability shift" won't be cheap, but it will result in a more secure system.
Tried "hey how are you?", gives me Haitian first.
Meet Gilgamesh, the privacy app Hong Kong protesters should be using
Solution to problem: Raise water rates. Why is this so hard? Might force people out of the state, but clearly there are too many given the present resources.
Actually, this was not a Hamas-planned action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_kidnapping_and_murder_of_...

Also, Israel's response resulted in more than 2000 dead. Proportional indeed.
Based on a 2-sec look at the code, it's using a built-in database of trigrams as a predictor of the language.

https://github.com/wooorm/franc/blob/master/lib/data.json
Amazing writing, I couldn't put it down. Don't miss the Amtrak Tips page linked at the bottom.

For anyone fascinated by rail travel, I can recommend the train from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe). It's definitely like he writes, hard mode, but it's only for one day or night, and when I was there first class tickets cost $7 US.

Also worthwhile: South Korea (trains galore, hard mode only due to the writing system). Sri Lanka's Hill Country (the train goes about 10 kph and you will wish it would slow down--the views!). Oslo-Stockholm (easy but expensive mode).

And finally, http://www.seat61.com - OK, it's got ads now, just ignore them, this is a gem of Web 1.0.
For those unaware of the RFC 2119 definition:

SHOULD NOT This phrase, or the phrase "NOT RECOMMENDED" mean that
there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances when the
particular behavior is acceptable or even useful, but the full
implications should be understood and the case carefully weighed
before implementing any behavior described with this label.
There's still a distinction between matter and anti-matter for neutral particles. For instance, the neutron and the anti-neutron are distinct, despite being neutral. They have neutral charge, but opposite baryon number. The neutron will decay into a proton by emitting and electron, while the anti-neutron will decay into an anti-proton while emitting a positron. Conservation of baryon number prevents the neutron from decaying into an anti-proton, which would otherwise make neutron sources a cheap and convenient way of producing anti-protons.
On #1, you can, there just aren't any laptops with exactly 13" screens in the db, so nothing is returned (the closest are 13.3" and 12.5"). Try 13.3" - 13.3" and you get results. For marketing purposes manufacturers often round down to a whole number, e.g. Apple's 11.6" MacBook Air model is marketed as 11", and their 13.3" model is marketed as 13".
Photons are generally considered to be their own antiparticles: http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=27107
ELI5: What would've happened if the commission didn't approve this?
So far all those posts seem to be intellectually interesting and high quality. I'm personally very fine with that; that's what Hacker News is for.
my bad, I've been looking to data folder first and haven’t found anything, I should have tried harder
No mechanism was actually discovered to explain how this reversion process took place. Which means it could just as easily have a cultural as a genetic basis within spider societies.
Interesting that they are: 1) using IceWeasel and 2) searching the login page for "downloads."
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BookKeeper: High-availability scalable distributed logging
I have been using earthclassmail.com as my official office address since 2007 and am very happy with their service. I run a multi-million dollar internet business from home.
Ah you are right, that makes sense yes. Maybe for usability it may be a good idea to round down?
Thank you for posting this here. This is exactly the sort of idea that we've been kicking around. Any chance you have a link to a GitHub repo so that we can follow it, and others can get involved?
It takes my PC less than an hour or so to pull a blu-ray if memory serves. The long wait is the transcoding.