skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Here's Lawrence Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass and the autopilot, landing his Sperry Messenger in front of the U.S. Capitol in 1922. (He needed about 600 feet of clear road to do that, for a 400 foot landing run.) Nobody panicked over this, even though this was after WWI and aerial bombing was known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_Sperry_at_Capito...
Already done. They're using the SQL injection to create a new page entry in the menu_router table whose access function was file_put_contents(). They then call this new page (in our case, they called it "nqabio") to write the file(s), and then called the pfmm.php.

Unfortunately, that code actually is taking PHP function calls from the cookies passed in with the request, and we didn't have cookie logging enabled, so we have no way of figuring out what that actually did. I suspect the Kcqf3 cookie is a decoder or decryption function, but the Kcqf2 function name is a mystery, and the Kcqf1 parameter could be anything.
golden age is created by people. By people who has at least some money, knowledge/skills and most importantly - passion. We have only one Musk, they had hundreds - that is the difference.

With respect to the new frontiers to explore our age isn't less exciting - we have access to DNA to tinker, cyborg-ing, fusion, space.
Here's one thing I've been curious about for fantasy football.

Stats are obviously important, but I'm not sure they can ever replicate simply watching film. For instance, two weeks ago, Odell Beckham Jr of the NY Giants caught 5 catches for 44 yds and a TD. What the stat line doesn't tell you is that he actually smoked his defender a few times, was open in the endzone on a play, and if Eli had chucked it up to him or seen him in the endzone, ODB would have definitely had a couple more TDs, at least.

I don't know enough about fantasy basketball/baseball to say whether film is as powerful for those sports, but it seems like the best fantasy football analysts give heavy credence to film because it protects against overreacting to good/bad performances.

Another example - last year there was some player that saw a significant drop in touchdowns (I can't remember off the top of my head who it was). But after looking at film, it became apparent this player unfortunately kept getting tackled at the 1 yard line. Clearly, an anomaly.
This app runs on Heroku, so it inherits all of the security controls described here:
https://www.heroku.com/policy/security
A few years ago in Pennsylvania, I struck and killed a deer with my car (nearly totaling my car in the process.) Another man driving down the road stopped to ask if I needed any help. After I assured him that I was okay, he asked me what I planned on doing with the deer. I told him that I didn't know what the proper procedure was, or who should be called to clean it up.

He asked if he could have it.

Apparently the only restriction on eating roadkill, at least at the time, was that the antlers had to be turned over to Fish&Game (some sort of anti-poaching measure).
He knows that some have. Thus, the average # of accidents per person is greater than zero. His # is zero. Hence, he is better than average by that measure. I don't think that is a good measure or way of thinking about it, but it is mathematically correct.
"if you are living here then you are consuming here" - it strikes me that, the more you are poor the more you are bound to consume local. The richer you are the more choice you have where to consume (or where to invest, at some point of wealth this could also be considered as consumption). Therefore I tend to think that a consumption tax will penalize the poor.
In Brazil people have been using things like these for about a decade. http://www.dx.com/p/triple-sim-cards-adapter-for-iphone-4-4s...
Really? I'm in Belgium and with a Portuguese account, a combination that usually doesn't get me too far, and it's downloading right now.
I can't speak for OP, but I'm sure most people would pick the former for themselves, just like everyone thinks that everyone other than themselves is a horrible driver.

The fundamental attribution error is very pervasive.

This is part of why (as dumb as the average person is) I'm not down with the "elite ruling class" idea, even if we're basically stuck with that now whether we like it or not (except the elites aren't really individuals but large corporate interests who essentially own large swaths of government actors who supposedly represent citizens).
Maybe. Or lots of people from country B will get into country A as "refugees", bring along their families, and have taxpayers in country A pay for them while they do what they can to be racist and criminal against native people from country A.

It depends on the moral sensibilities of the A'ers.
The emergence of the counter-free bank branch
I'm missing the fact that CNAMEs aren't allowed for the root record (the one with the SOA).
Even though it feels very fad-ish because it's been used as a buzzword/bandwagon, I don't feel like it's actually a fad.

My view is that that digital design has matured to the point where designers no longer feel they have to wow users with lots of effects and visual flourishes, allowing for a more purpose driven design. My hope/opinion is that is here to stay.
That's not an estate tax, that's the estate paying taxes owed on property.

In Canada, if you die with $20M in cash, you are free to give it to heirs with no tax penalty.
So they ran out of money suddenly? With no warning, they discover they have only 10 days to survive? They should still work with archivists to offload the data.

They could at least turn off new registrations, and put some kind of notice on the home page that they're about to shut down. TwitPic is still accepting new signups and uploads.
The Tor project is really important, and I'm really glad the EFF supports it. It's come a long way in the last 10 years too. For about a year I ran a fairly high traffic couple of exit nodes (circa 2004) and it was a really scary experience - constant legal threats, phone calls from people screaming that we'd hacked their servers in the middle of the night, and several conversations with the lawyers of big media companies. People who run exit nodes have some serious stones. It was finally too much, despite the crew at the EFF being really helpful when we called asking if they might help us navigate some of the more intimidating legal waters.

All this to say, I'm really impressed at the lengths the project has gone (and continues to go) to make Tor safer, more accessible, and easier to use for nontechnical folks. I just downloaded and installed this, and it worked, and worked well. A far cry from the earlier days. Cheers to Tor and the people working on it, running exit nodes, bridge nodes, and offering legal support to those that need it.
At first I was excited by this feature, but you're right.

Knowing Apple, they are most likely doing this so they can get rid of the SIM slot in future devices. Of course they will tout the slim device and large battery, but it is really all about control.
What's going on with Light Table? Anyone use it? Is it "done"? Python? JS? It was hot for a while and I haven't heard anything in a bit.
> First, it's my data and the service should keep it instead of deleting it.

If the data is important to you, clearly you have a working backup (or multiple), don't you?
> A representative government is supposed represent all of its constituents equally

Yes, "supposed to", but the representation comes through the voting process, and not everyone votes, so they really represent the voters. And I assume you mean the voters are swayed by the advertising that buckets of cash pay for, since outright bribes are illegal.

The politician who rewards campaign contributors at the expense of voters is thrown out the next election. There's a check or power built into the system, but a lot of the time the new guy is bought off too. Usually the more competition and transparent the industry, the harder it is to buy off a politician. The less power a political office has, the less it will be bought off. There are all sorts of ways to fix this problem without limiting political speech.
Bill Gross is incompetent? The guy who used to manage a 2 trillion dollar bond fund? I can think of many economically incompetent people, but Bill Gross is not one of them. A terrible manager, yes, but not incompetent.
A tangentially related story about rats in New York City was published by the New York Times a few days ago[1]. An examination of 133 rats turned up hantavirus, which can cause hemorrhagic fever, as well as 18 viruses that are new to science. New York, like many major cities in the US, has a huge rat problem so one can only imagine what else is lurking right here at home.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/science/rats-and-their-ala...
Broadwell MBAs are coming, maybe before the year is out.
These models often compensate for competing risks of death—if you're curious, look up "Cox proportional hazard" to understand some of the math behind this.

Your meta point is a good one—I would like to see a model that predicts either your total lifespan, or probability of living to (say) 80 years of age heart attack-free. Perhaps I'll try to get access to the raw Framingham data and build a model to do that.

(For this particular page, I just bootstrapped from the existing medical research, which, while it has its limitations, has at least been thoroughly studied.)
Great article, and I'm fascinated by the link to the Newsweek magazine cover in question:

http://www.donotlink.com/baqi

I suppose that, in most cases, it'd be far easier to `nofollow` the link, but I find it fascinating that there's an opportunity for added commentary beyond what you'd get by just nofollow'ing.
Show HN: Open Source, Mobile GitHub Application
A degree by degree explanation of what will happen when the earth warms
Seems that landing experimental aircraft on the Capitol steps was a thing. Senator Hiram Bingham landed both a blimp (1929) and this "autogyro" (1931) there too:

https://uschs.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bingham.jpg

(Fun fact: Bingham was the partial inspiration for Indiana Jones).
60=2x3x2(4)x5 makes sharing farming products easier among 2,3,4,5,6,10,12 people.

77=7x11 is cool too, but families/partners with 7 or 11 people are less common
Why not have a phone with three SIM card slots? Avoid the kickback from the carrier to Apple.
For the best of both before SCTP exists, if ever, RUDP (Reliable UDP) [1] where needed is what most game developers/engines use on the networking layer such as RakNet [2] (recently bought and open sourced by Oculus), enet [3], and the many based on those.

RUDP or similar systems allow network messaging to ack when needed and unreliable by default which is fine for positional updates with some missing data using interpolation and extrapolation to simulate missing data. Global game states and determining the winner/ending the level might need a reliable call.

With UDP and only some reliable calls you drastically improve real-time performance with less queueing. TCP is ok for turn-based or near-real-time but high action real-time games almost all use UDP with a RUDP twist. Using a mix can also be harmful [4] so the best option is RUDP where needed, default to UDP.

UDP is great because it is a broadcast, almost like TV/radio in that you can show the data you receive and smooth the rest. Although, TV/radio needs every data frame to prevent static/lag but imagine the broadcaster having to error check all connections, it would quickly saturate. UDP allows saturation later. Games can predict movement and smooth out missing data for most game actions, you only need a few points for a bezier to be smooth or you might have variables for speed/direction/forces that you can predict with. Pretty good reliability and lack of ordering are not really an issue, if out of order (timestamp older than last) discard and use next or predict until the next valid message (too much of this leads to lag but normal UDP operations it is enough and actually smoother).

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sigtran-reliable-udp-...

[2] https://github.com/OculusVR/RakNet

[3] http://enet.bespin.org/

[4] http://www.isoc.org/INET97/proceedings/F3/F3_1.HTM
I was looking into them yesterday, and the best source of info on what exactly REvolution R seems to be is from Wikipedia (Their sites is fraught with buzzwords and little info). That is, it's an R distro that has multi-threaded computation as you noticed, but also has the facility to deal with datasets larger than can be stored in memory and supposedly also has some integration with Hadoop.
Google overtakes Goldman Sachs in US political donations
For those who don't closely follow the topic of language design, error handling is actually a fascinatingly diverse subject. Exceptions are not the end of the story, and it's great to see languages explore this space.

Microsoft's upcoming M# language has also teased an interesting approach to error-handling. I'm very curious to see what they come up with.
Not sure I feel about this. It reminds me of Enthought or Anaconda python or RStudio or RedHat for linux. Should companies be able to 'own' an open source software by funneling a majority of users through their distributions and by funding developers to build the language in a way advantageous to the company? In some way, sure, since it can be mutually beneficial to the company and the users. But in another way, it goes against the spirit of a community, rather than oligarchy, contributing to the software.

EDIT:
On second thought, it seems naive to think that any large scale open source software doesn't have some corporate backing. For instance, Google and python / Go. I guess that's not so bad.
Doesn't the "U" in UDP stand for unreliable? Joking!
Not necessarily. Even the C++ committee now accepts that most of the C++ code that will ever be written has already been written.
Making Historic Software Eternal
How does this compare in terms of speed to SAS?
OS X Yosemite is now available to download
The problem is the same as it is with print; the subscription fee usually only covers the cost of distribution. The cost of content is typically paid for by advertising, which brings in more than subscriptions do. This CBS streaming service is going to be $6/month. So for each million subscribers they get $6m/mo.

But CBS's most show, The Big Bang Theory, which is the most popular show in the USA in that time slot, pulls in about $6.5 million of ad revenue every episode. So CBS would need 4 million subscribers just to match the revenue stream from that one show. Put another way, they need 50k subscribers to replace the ad revenue from one single 30-second commercial spot on that same show. http://www.ibtimes.com/economics-prime-time-how-much-does-it...

This is why the economics of TV are so brutal and many shows are canceled after only a few episodes or a single season. It's not necessarily the fault of the show itself - if a new show goes up against a much stronger offering from another channel, it may not attract a critical mass of viewers and it's more economical to cancel further production and fill the time slot with repeats of more popular material that draws a reliable audience.

Now it could be possible for individual shows to break even. I don't watch a lot of TV, so I only ever watch one program on CBS, a show called Elementary. I would be willing to consider paying something like $1/episode or $25 for the whole season up front - but that has run for a few years already. For launching a new show with the production value and baseline quality of acting that a commercial audience expects, you probably can't get people to pay for it without spending the same amount of money on marketing as on the production itself. So without the cross-subsidies from advertising it would be quite difficult to raise the capital to finance new TV shows. Obviously you have alternatives depending on what sort of show you want to make, eg you can produce a wacky animated comedy relatively cheaply and launch it on YouTube or somesuch to get your initial audience critical mass. But if you want to do an hour-long serious drama or current affairs or science programming, your up front costs are far higher and you need people to open their checkbooks - your MVP probably costs at least $1 million.
> I have granted The New Yorker an exclusive license to the article for a limited period... If, a year from now, someone else, without my permission, reprints my article in a book called “The Most Thoughtful and Penetrating Essays of 2014,” I can complain that my right to make copies is being violated and, if the court agrees with me, legally suppress the book... Although not the author of this piece, you, too, would likely feel that the publisher of “Most Thoughtful Essays” was a bandit.

> But suppose that a Web site ran an item that said something like “This piece on copyright is a great read!” with a hyperlink on the word “piece” to my article’s page on The New Yorker’s Web site. You wouldn’t think this was banditry at all. You would find it unexceptionable.

I would argue that the latter seems unexceptional because it is qualitatively different than the former.

If I pick up an essay from the New Yorker and print it in a book that I then sell, I am depriving the New Yorker of revenue, because now there is a way to get it that doesn't involve paying the rights-holder (the New Yorker). This -- taking money out of the hands of the people who own the content to put it in my own -- is what copyright is designed to stop.

If I link to an essay on the New Yorker's web site from my own web site, I am not depriving them of revenue, because you can only read it by following the link, and the New Yorker is free to put up any financial barriers -- paywalls, ads, etc. -- between you and the endpoint of the link that they wish. So they're not losing the opportunity to sell you the content; I'm not taking money out of their hands. And maybe my endorsement that there's good stuff to be found behind the paywall will be the factor that convinces you to pay up.

Or, alternately, they can decide to forgo the money they'd make by forcing you to subscribe in the hopes that they can make more money by showing ads against the content instead. But the crucial point is that it is their decision, not mine. Whereas if I put the essay in a printed book, and then sold it, I am making the decision for them.

Where all this breaks down, of course, is in cases where I, the linker, reprint large portions (or all) of the article on my own site in addition to just providing a link. In that case, yes, I am depriving you of revenue, because the reader no longer has to click through to get the meat of the story. But traditional copyright law covers this scenario too -- I don't have the right to do that. All I'm allowed to do by the doctrine of fair use (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use) is reprint a small snippet. If I put up the whole thing, I'm violating your copyright and you can and should come at me with guns blazing.

(I wrote a bit more about this distinction between what I call "ethical" and "unethical" aggregation here: http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2012/05/ethical-aggregation-its-si...)
Ah interesting, I wasn't aware of that. I think the Bluetooth part is still valid however, as is my point about the loss rate being determined largely by how the end hosts are connected to the network core.
You know, we put so much damned effort into getting the 'net to have documents that could trivially link to other documents and be available to everyone, it seems unsurprising that it is difficult to retrofit it with copyright protection measures.
Yes, I made a mistake, but you got my point. As you may have in-norm LDL and very HDL and then your TC will be in the danger zone, which doesn't make any sense.
It is Locked Up available online too at http://www.msnbc.com/lockup. Basically the idea is to shove a lot of inmates into a small space and have them mill about aimlessly then see what happens.
Did it work? Just because somebody becomes trans doesn't mean they actually get comparable social treatment to a cis woman in practice.
What makes this better than simply using port forwarding and dynamic DNS?
Impressive feat.
This is a crazy interesting concept. In part because I just never considered it before, but also because its kind of a midway: Let the elitists feel elite and set the standards, and the rebels and riff-raff fight amongst themselves for status.

Honestly, having worked in media (film) and with those guilds (SAG, DGA, etc) its very difficult for me to say this is a good idea. The guilds were constructed the way they are because of the in-and-out nature of working in production. Without going into detail, the model just doesn't fit unless all devs turn freelance.

Now a union, as the states has for many different labor professions etc: this is a concept that could work, but without an effective standardization system (something VERY hard to do in a world of open source, fast moving technology development, and new coding languages) it would be for show and simply an opportunity for the 5% who shook the right hands to sit on their golden thrones. Sounds very American though. ;-)

The thing is, neither guilds or unions were really built to enforce standards of work-quality. They were built to protect the workers against potential abuse from corporations/foundations/government firms/private sector contractors. So this would be inverse to the problem we're trying to solve, which is qualification of good devs versus "bad" or under qualified.

So what would work? Well if we all started by doing Oracle IT and Microsoft certificates, the furiously patient devs of the world could at least recognize each other for it. Actually... they already sort of do. :-p

I think ultimately the next form of standards is going to have to be written by the academic world OR some other government sponsored party of incredibly savvy individuals who's entire "business" revolves around standardization testing for devs. Not that there aren't companies kind of doing this, but well? And on a government level of respect and reach? Nope.

I suppose the only back draw is that it risks removing the creativity and how problem solving abilities are associated to personality type. I'm sure you could eventually formulate that as well, but sheesh, what data mayhem. Would be awesome.
I guess one point for it is hell, if google and amazon can do it for themselves, who's to say evaluations couldn't be built across the board?

That was really long, sorry, but super interesting question!
This is why the metric system is stupid.

Now, last time I said this I was downvoted, but just because base 10 is convenient academically doesn't mean it is a great idea in day to day life.

The metric system is great for doing science but totally annoying for doing carpentry, for example. Centimeters are generally not a convenient size, and something as simple as dividing a piece of wood in to thirds is unnecessarily imprecise.