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> As a Rust beginner myself, I suggest not to follow guides (except the ones at http://www.rust-lang.org) since most are outdated.

Nearly every (external) guide I've tried to use is out of date, but it's impossible to tell from the guide itself. I wish everyone who wrote a guide or tutorial would label it with the version of Rust it works with (or at least the date).
You could also use drop box services like Parcel Motel and maintain a degree of anonymity through it. Depending on how well you set it up, the only real chance of being caught is if the package was found in transit and the authorities decided to essentially set up a sting on the drop box and wait for you to collect it.

However, for recreational consumer use, you're talking quantities that absolutely could not justify such an operation. The value in such an operation through a traditional drug dealing network would be that the person caught could serve up information on who they got it from. When you're talking about buying drugs anonymously online, none of that information will be available.
Will i can't say that i know any. But it's hard for a company to survive with only 2 or 3 employees, maybe the first hundred clients they might manage But more than that and they'll get crushed by the pressure Thus the big numbers of employees and the open offices to attract talent
There's this notion that "you get what you measure."

Therefore, it would be good to see metrics that reveal how corruption cases at various levels are being dealt with.

Not trying to be negative about India, it's just that having the ability to measure this will allow people to see where positive changes is happening, and where it is not.

I would have the same kinds of comments if this were a US API: what tools is it giving us to see what the inspector general is and is not doing for various aspects of government performance.
http://timeanddate.com is my go-to tool
What don't you like about the BSD license?

GPL proponents generally argue that since code must be contributed back if a program is distributed, it will cause the original source base to grow. On the other hand, from what I gather Apple has used a lot of code from FreeBSD and contributed a significant amount back to the project, which wouldn't have been possible without a BSD-style license. Native ZFS support wouldn't have been possible either, although Sun may have deliberately used a non-GPL compatible license in that case. In any event, it's possible for a BSD-licensed code base to grow as well.

The other pro-GPL argument is that it provides more freedom than a BSD license, but I wonder if part of that is just a desire to prevent commercial use of something others created and gave away for free. I'm not sure why that bothers some GPL proponents. What's your take on that?

Personally I'm more inclined to contribute to a BSD-licensed project because I can use parts of the code commercially. I don't see as many opportunities to work on GPL-licensed code outside of a very niche job working for someone else or doing it merely as a hobby.
Thanks, that looks perfect. I'll persist with the Apple shortcuts for a while, but am happy that there's a nice way to make the worlds feel similar if it proves too distracting.
AppIcon set for iOS, OS X generator
I'm curious... Why mention "CloudFlare" at all? Why not, "joined a new company" ? Unless the point was specifically to let all of us know that you now work for CloudFlare?
Easy way to create AppIcon set which are used by xCode from one large logo. Supports: iOS 8, 7, 6 for iPhone and iPad. As well CarPlay and Mac apps.
What about heating/noise? I heard Dell has problems with that quite constantly. BTW, what's model of your device?
On the invention of the nobel prize-winning blue LED
Photobox: Simple Dropbox photo management
How to write a README file for GitHub (Markdown tips)
It's not far off. "Humus" and "hominae". It just gets the root wrong; proto-Indo-European rather than Latin.
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Sounds like status incongruence: where social status characteristics (in this case black, female) appear incongruent with a person's role (professor of engineering). This is not her problem, it is the students' issue.

Basically, for these students (and probably some faculty members), her role has upset the social order to which they've become accustomed. Someone they would otherwise view as inferior to themselves (a black female) is in a superior position to them. It is uncomfortable for them.

This is probably part of why that one student wants to give her instructions on how to improve--my guess is that it has less to do with the quality of her lectures. Rather, he wants to their roles in the classroom to match his notion of their relative social power--with him in the superior position.

This happens quite a bit with black professionals, as well as members of other ethnic minorities. I do some work in this area and it comes up often in professional environs.
I'm not sure what counts as "small", but I can't imagine they have very few LOC...
I use JetBrains products, so I can't speak to Eclipse.

I edit shell scripts, config files, and a host of other non-.rb files all the time in RubyMine, for example. Many of the features, particularly the code navigation, that you demo on your site are available in JetBrains IDEs.

(ps: your demos are awesome - great resource.)

It looks like you do a lot of C/C++ systems programming. That's one area where I would recommend trying emacs or vi before an IDE. The language and editors have grown together over 30+ years. That's not the case for things like Rails and Java.
I doubt it. Roads are terrible roads already. Asphalt is a cheap way of paving a road that needs to be repaired and replaced very frequently.

If there is any deliberate design of roads, it's only that they degrade fairly gracefully and repair is built into the cost. But this frequently leads to corrupt practices such as kickbacks (at the least, this is a common public perception) or extended periods of poor quality roads.

Surely a better solution is to design the roads more carefully to avoid such a level of degradation. Since this matches the design required for solar panels, this could be a great driver for change.
Pretty soon with all this throttling, people aren't going to be able to have meetings, do large code pushes, video chats etc at the end of the month when everyone's rigged data plans dry up.

The last few days of the month for me online is always spotty, slow, and pretty much unusable.

We are being held hostage by our telecoms, slowing business to a crawl because they want you to upgrade. I have upgraded to my broadband highest tier and still get throttled, the extra speeds cause faster depletion of that bandwidth limit on purpose. Speed and limits both need to increase.
The Steve Jobs Guide to Manipulating People
http://when2meet.com as well
There are about 500 transactions per block; each block contains 25BTC + fees (the fees are negligible at the moment). At the current price of $350/BTC that means that the revenue per transaction is 25*350/500 = $17, which means that the cost per transaction should be around that area. This means that the low transaction fee is actually massively subsidized by the fixed block reward.
> Only exception I ran into is wireless card in an old MacBook Pro which should work but doesn't.

If this was a bwi(4) card, the problem is probably fixed in 5.6: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140585757928895&w=2
The Future of Payments and Open Source Support
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That will depend on the drug. If you're talking about heroin or crack addicts who've to essentially approach random people they don't know, then yes there is obviously risk associated with it.

However when you're talking about recreational / party drugs like marijuana, MDMA, etc., these come through large distribution networks with an inherent level of trust and common cause to minimize risk inbuilt. If you, for example, wanted to get some marijuana, you'd probably go to a friend that you know smokes it, because he clearly has a source for it.

You'll go to someone you feel you can place some level of trust and confidence in, and likewise they will go to, or direct you toward, someone they place a level of trust and confidence in.

Every actor in that scenario is seeking to minimize their risk. The consumer will use caution in who they deal with and likewise the middlemen or distributors will use caution in who they deal with.

This will be underlined by the fact that low level recreational drugs dealing isn't a massively profitable activity. Only further up the distribution chain, far away from the end user, will profit rise and with it, risk.

I personally cannot fathom buying drugs from someone totally unconnected online. The odds of you ending up buying drugs from a police officer when you go to a friend of a friend, versus when you're buying them from a faceless entity online are incredibly different.
There needs to be better support for self-signed certificates, or at least a CA that is free and doesn't have strings attached (looking at you StartSSL with payment required to re-issue a cert).

I would love to have certificates for all of my domains, but it simply isn't worth it to me for the 40 - 50 hits a month I get on those properties to pay for a cert, or go through the hassle of StartSSL and worry about having to pay if the next Heartbleed happens.
I have to second this. It took me years to thoroughly grasp some of its parts (and I have a math background) but Diaspora is without a doubt my favorite book of fiction.

The first chapter of the novel is particularly approachable & worthwhile. It's titled Orphanogenesis and is a beautiful, detailed (~30 page) account of the digital birth of a new AI consciousness, from embryo to newborn to gaining self-awareness.

Next year several Greg Egan's books will be reprinted. Diaspora comes out January 6, 2015!

http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-A-Novel-Greg-Egan/dp/15978054...

* * *

If you want a softer approach to Egan's fiction, check out his short stories. Reasons to be Cheerful is my favorite one as well as Egan's. It's part of the Luminous collection, available as a $3 kindle ebook:

http://www.amazon.com/Luminous-Greg-Egan-ebook/dp/B00E84BABW...
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"In a fair world we would allocate funds for medical research based on number of people suffering from illness and not their purchasing power -- but then the world isn't truly fair to everyone."

Agreed, it's really impossible and on the same shelf as "Perpetual Motion". But, to be fair, when most people these days talk of fairness or just, they mostly refer to their own personal notions of those terms and what physical outcome represents them best. The end result is that the terms are basically meaningless, as no one can reconcile their personal definitions with a global/universal definition (if one even exists).

"[..]And everyone including the government decides to fund research on disease B -- won't that be unfair and unjust ??"
I'd say that sucks for the "large percentage" of people you speak for. But, then again, a discussion of this hypothetical scenario would devolve to a discussion of politics, because their government is supposed to represent majority interest. i.e. That's the actual problem.
I'm not sure why everyone seems to think carrier subsidies are a con.

I don't think it's a con, and I understand why the carriers price the phones this way: it works! But I'm baffled why consumers and reporters seem comfortable comparing the 'with contract' prices of phones as if the upfront difference between 99 cents, $99, $199, and $299 is the best way to decide with which company to sign a $2000 two-year contract.

Amazon isn't getting that $1000+, they get whatever the non-contract price is of the phone. Carriers subsidize some of that cost in-exchange for some guaranteed cash flow for 2 years.

Yes, Amazon collects whatever amount they convince the customer to pay for the phone, plus a much larger 'kickback' from the carrier in return for getting them to sign a two-year contract. My expectation was that an article in a financially oriented magazine about the losses Amazon was experiencing might make some mention of the several hundred dollars[1] Amazon collects from the carrier rather than concentrating only on the '99 cent' sticker price.

I had a confused conversation last week with someone who expressed delight that her new iPhone 6 cost about the same as my "no contract" Moto G. She was surprised to learn that if she broke or lost her phone it would cost more than the "discount" price to replace. And she's a very savvy consumer, has a science PhD, and her husband works for Apple! She probably would have 'bought' the same phone in either case, but if the details of the arrangement weren't clear to her, I doubt that most consumers have a very good understanding of how phone pricing works. My lament was that after reading this Fortune article neither she nor anyone else would have an improved understanding.

[1] What is the actual amount that Amazon collects from the carrier?
I meant this only as an example of a website which provides and creates rich information without participating in the commercial ad-funded system. Some funds do come from the dutch government but the content is provided by volunteers.

If I had a solution to generalize this I would be busy implementing it.
If you'd like to call that a form of GC, I'd prefer to call it "compile-time GC" to avoid confusion. I rarely see "garbage collection" being used to refer to anything other than dynamic garbage collection.
I like the following logic: you could always disable it, and only switch on for the time someone else is using your laptop, so win-win.

But getting rid of 7-row keyboard and clicky mouse buttons, so that a huge trackpad would fit? Not worth it.
I have a HP Zbook 15 and I'm happy with it. One of the reasons is the trackpad with physical buttons. The keyboard is good too. Unfortunately it has a number pad, completely useless. I rather have a keyboard centered with the screen instead. Apple got that right. Most PC manufacturers don't.
Wait, did I read that second one right? A streaming gif that is created/updated in real time by the server (i.e. the later frames don't even exist as the browser starts loading the asset)? What a hack!
Hip-hop artists forced to diversify to attract major music labels
Introduction to WebGL 3D with HTML5 and Babylon.js
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=natural+fix+for+adhd#!/story/forev...
as someone who was diagnosed adhd but am probably not any longer, i think basketball is a perfect solution. the game requires constant improvisation, which is a like crack to most novelty seekers. and then you get the second benefit (the intense physical work out) as a bonus, which maybe helps you grow out of adhd.
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That's a completely different scenario.

I have been in that situation and it was made crystal clear by the documents that I was signing that I was on the hook for a big chunk o' cash (signing bonus + relocation costs to move me halfway across the country) if I decided to leave before a year was up. That's a situation I willingly entered into, having many alternate choices. This wasn't something that was just thrust on me the day I showed up at the new job; I knew about it before I turned in my notice at the old one.

Many (most?) of the people in this situation don't have that luxury of choice and freedom.
That's in this spec:

"The server certificate, if one is proffered by the alternative service, is not necessarily checked for validity, expiration, issuance by a trusted certificate authority or matched against the name in the URI."

In other words, the certificate presented is merely used to secure the connection against a passive attacker.
I used to work just three miles from Gotham in Nottinghamshire, UK. It's comically unimposing.

Its Wikipedia page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham,_Nottinghamshire

…and its location is here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Gotham,+Nottingham,+Nott...
I'm an adult woman with adhd and it's definitely been an advantage as an entrepreneur. When I hyper focus on our company, brilliant things happen because I can think out of the box and my passion and obsession for our product has my undivided attention. Needing to constantly shift work environments, go for walks, and multitask has worked well for me in my startup life. However, in my former corporate life, it was at times crippling and embarrassing. I really appreciated this article because it elevates the need for those with adhd to choose the work environment best fit for their behavioral needs and hopefully sheds light to a wider audience that adhd is in fact 'a real thing'. In a previous corporate role, when i spoke to HR about my daily struggle working in an office environment with tv's on and lots of cubes with loud people talking, they didn't take me seriously and just thought it was a 'millennial' problem. I had to work saturday nights and sundays just to complete my work because during the work week it was so difficult to focus with all the surrounding noise. I lied to my manager about all my weekend work because she down played the very realness my adhd had on my ability to focus like I was making it up. I hope this article brings to light that many people do suffer from adhd and to take their work environment requests seriously. I hope it also encourages those with adhd to be more vocal about it.
Cell phone certainly have network effects, it's just that they're all software. You're right the carrier doesn't really matter at this point but there's no way I would switch from iOS to Amazon's phone because there just isn't any software available. Even if we ignore the stuff I've already purchased, there are tons of little games and utilities and other fun things that are never going to come out for a fourth tier platform.

Even with all the money they have Amazon can't really force people to make software for their phones. Microsoft has tried the "buying developers mindshare" thing for Windows mobile and it hasn't worked well for them. They're still in third place by a giant margin.

At this point you can't subsidize yourself into having a first-class software ecosystem. It would just cost way too much.

And since Amazon doesn't want to be just another Android vendor, they're not going to let standard Android software run on their phones. At that point they need an insanely compelling feature to get people and "easy Amazon shopping" isn't that.

Why should I get a phone for one dollar that has almost no software when I can get an iPhone 5c for free on contract with a ton of software and accessories? I know they're also good Android phones available free on contract.
First off, congratulations to Mohammed AlQuraishi for the paper! Carrying out a big project like that and seeing it through to completion is a solid achievement.

> The fact that [writing the paper] consumed so much is a little disconcerting, and suggests, for me at least, that writing a paper is a major commitment.

I think the amount of time needed to write is something people generally underestimate the first time they write a scientific paper (I certainly did). It is a bigger undertaking that most people expect. There is a lot of writing, editing, rewriting, etc.[0], and it takes a lot of time and effort. I am not the first person to say this, but I think most people (in science at least) underestimate the importance of writing and so underestimate how much time it takes.

But I do not think it should necessarily be "disconcerting". The author goes on to say this, and I agree: sharing the results of the research is very important. I would even go so far as to say it is as important as doing the research (if the research is not spread to others, it difficult to make use of). So putting in the time to effectively communicate the process and results is critical. For some types of projects, I could envision the writing taking _more_ time than the actual research, in order to effectively communicate the research.

[0] I have tracked the text of one of my current papers in git since I began writing it; once it is finally published, it would be interesting to go back and look at how the text evolved with time. How much did I write in comparison to the amount of text that survived to the published form? How long do passages "survive" in the draft before being edited or removed?
You've likely been downvoted because you misunderstand how it works.

Only idiots are communicating their addresses unencrypted - PGP encryption for addresses is standard. So the only way for your address to be matched to your dark net activity is if a.) the person you are buying from gets busted and b.) the person you're buying from doesn't destroy the address after they ship the package.
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It could be, depending on where the clients are. Maybe that's good money where he is, and the clients are local?
Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry
Of course, focusing on details. It is more about spending money on something that you can easily do for free. This was not to pick on UPenn. Rather it was more to point out the irony of this professor's class when thinking about the value of American college education.
And I was providing context.
Show HN: Android Wear app that shows RSS news headlines
I just released the first version of my app - WeaRSS. It allows you to follow all your favorite RSS news sources and will sync the headlines to your Android Wear device for quick viewing on your wrist.

This is just the first release and I really want feedback. Please let me know your experiences with it and what features you think I should add.

Thanks HN!
In Germany, DHL is offering what in the US is known as Amazon Lockers. And they got hacked and used for drug trading.
After the money/bitcoin transfer you simply got the access code and could get your drugs like from a vending machine. Though they somehow got busted.
I always thought it referred to the shape of gothic architecture that New York's skyline might evoke in past days. With a dark pallette it could very much be used in a batman cityscape.
> "I once had a student who would review notes with me that he had taken on my lecture, then offer tips on how I could improve. It seems he thought he was doing me a favor, despite the fact that I had been teaching for six years by then. I doubt that this is an experience that many of my male colleagues have ever had to endure."

This passage makes me deeply uncomfortable.

It sounds like that student was extremely engaged, hungry for knowledge, verification, and possibly validation. He may also have been trying to make the world a better place. That disappeared through a lens of race, gender, and social role issues.

Something built a wall between her and her students. That's crushingly sad.
I'm not an expert in any sense, just a curious bystander. Assuming that the ratio of perturbations causing misclassifications to ones that don't is extremely low, couldn't you perturb the image in the time dimension, such that "dog" misclassifications would be odd blips in an otherwise continuous "cat" signal, with some sort of smoothing applied that would average those blips away? And in fact wouldn't that be the default case in some real world implementations, such as biological NNs or driverless car ones? The input to the NN would be a live video feed captured via light focused on some kind of CCD, which is going to be inherently noisy.
> following the dark net markets subreddit

As someone who is well aware of being hopelessly clueless regarding discovering even the most simplest of illicit transactions to save one's own life, I was wondering how people find out about new or existing dark-net markets beyond nebulous "word of mouth" scenarios one sees amongst the "old guard" "Liam Neeson"-type gangster characters in film.
This was really helpful - it's nice to see that he takes the same steps that I do when learning a new language.

Interestingly, this highlights just how incredibly important up-to-date and authoritative tutorials/docs just are. Julia/scikit-learn are both absolutely amazing in this regard.