skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I'm not saying they're equivalent. I'm just saying that this points the way.

There was also a time when making software was too expensive to make for modern methods to work. When my dad got started, machine time was way too expensive to spend it on things like frequent compiling and automated testing; it was cheaper to have humans stare very hard at paper printouts and simulate operations using paper and pencil.

That changed with the rise of the personal computer, and changed further as computing power got cheaper. Now developers can spin up whole virtual clusters of machines to test things out, easing the development of open-source software for those environments. If software is eating the easy end of hardware, that at least means that some open-source hardware will become plausible. But I hope the progress will continue over coming decades.
Rather, I would say, "it should make me rethink buying any electronic product _not manufactured in the US or other developed world countries that have much higher, stricter standards on labor conditions_..."

Not everything is manufactured in China (though I certainly don't know of any laptops not made in China, and only a select few phones.)

edit: oh, and also, my main point was "how good are those audits?"
Survey Shows Plurality of Americans Do Not Agree with Sony Pulling the Interview
> In the case of hydrogen infrastructure, we have nothing.

Well, more than nothing, but not a lot just now. Though more is in development.

> If you're the first guy to buy a hydrogen car, you can't fill it up anywhere

I'm going to guess that the first several tens of thousands of people to buy consumer electric vehicles in the US will be clustered around the places where the existing infrastructure is [1], so that this won't be even approximately true (there'll be an interesting trade off until infrastructure builds out in that FCVs will have a longer single charge/tank range than EVs, but a much more limited area of operations since there'll be limited refueling locations especially outside of the "home" areas.)

[1] e.g., in California, http://www.cafcp.org/stationmap
I think we can only articulate thoughts for which words exist. But we can invent new words, or look for roundabout ways to describe novel phenomena.

Sometimes we learn the necessity of doing this the hard way. One day when I was a kid (maybe 10 or 11) I was watching the Saturday morning kid's variety show on TV (I say 'the show' because there was only one TV channel in my country at that time), when I saw something new - the producers went into a new segment by doing a shaped wipe from one image to the other (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_%28transition%29). I had never seen such a thing on TV before; the shape of the wipe reminded me of flames, which I think was meant to be evocative of the new subject matter, and I was deeply impressed by this novel aesthetic experience. So I ran into the kitchen and informed my parents that 'they were showing XYZ on the TV and they made flames come up from the bottom of the screen'; I had no language to express the abstract nature of the video effect so I just described it in terms of the idea it evoked.

Being the 1970s, my parents just head the bit about flames coming from the TV screen and ran into the other room thinking the TV had caught fire, and then gave me a hard time in proportion to their sudden anxiety. Now of course I was well aware of the difference between the real and the virtual by that age, but it was a striking example of how much anxiety can result when the boundary between the two is called into question. I think something similar is at the root of the common instruction to children of 'don't tell stories' and in the Christian aphorism warning people not to 'speak of the devil, and he shall appear' - an underlying anxiety that narrative is capable of bringing reality into being. Many cultures delegated the role of storyteller or oral historian to a particular individual, usually an elder - perhaps to limit the chaos that might result from multiple competing and incongruous narratives than because the delegate was necessarily the best or most interesting storyteller.
If we're talking about ancient Latin then yes. If we're talking about modern English then no. As well argue that "beef" refers to the entire cow rather than just its meat.
Gandalf Song by the Library Bards (Parody of Shake It Off Taylor Swift)
The article mentioned "and S-1 filings of SaaS companies trying to IPO are, to many people, hilarious for this reason".

Being outside of start up circles I was curious why this was hilarious.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Everybody writes horrible duct-tape code at some point, and showing how you improved/refactored the code is a much nicer thing than showing how you supposedly magically got it right the first time :)
It doesn't seem to have actually worked yet
But it was Chán till the Japanese iterated on it and disrupted the Mahayana world.
Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network
My hangup here is that the DPRK historically provides absolutely no shortage of excuses for the US to grandstand, but with the occasional exception of them shelling some South Korean island or kidnappings a tourist, they are usually (publically) ignored. Niche news websites about North Korea will talk about the crap they do or say weekly, but you usually only see US government officials and mainsteam US media piping up once or twice a year.

Its not like the US has to manufacturer an excuse to complain about them. There is an abundance of genuine North Korean antics to choose from if they want to.
> The second reason: Keynesian economics works, at least in the short to medium term.

Krugman has managed to make the Keynesian premise completely unfalsifiable using a tall podium and a variety of rhetorical techniques. Krugman believes his own press, rarely reads opposing views and mischaracterizes opponents such that to read his column, you'd think everyone who disagrees with him must be a moron.

According to Krugman:

If the economy isn't doing well, it's because we need to pass a stimulus package.

If the economy STILL isn't doing well, it's because we need a BIGGER stimulus package or ANOTHER stimulus package. (repeat this assertion until things get better, which they are likely to eventually even if it's despite rather than due to all this stimulus.)

If the recovery is surprisingly slow, it's because we didn't listen to him when he said we need a bigger stimulus package.

If the recovery is surprisingly fast, it's because we DID listen to him about the need for the ORIGINAL stimulus package.

Thus there is no real-world outcome which he can't explain in terms of the need for government to spend more.

(Constructing a similar argument for the need to spend less in all these circumstances is left as an exercise for the reader)
Some one still uses pingdom ? LOL I find this "ping.gg" much more useful for me.
Thoughts on Rust Cryptography
Do these apply to ntpd in OSX?
Oh, so now we not only have hundreds of miles of a near-vacuum being maintained... but also hundreds of miles of a near-vacuum being maintained at a specific temperature.

And for the remaining bit of expansion it might be
possible to let the pipes slide upon/inside the pillars
and make even the terminals moveable.

So you want a hundreds-of-miles long vacuum sealed tube that is composed of movable, sliding joints.

Please tell me, what kind of magical sliding joints are you familiar with that are cheap to produce and also able to hold a near-perfect vacuum?
Here's the game AG Hood is playing, the old fashioned shakedown, except apparently AG offices don't usually front the money:

In no place has the contingency-fee practice flourished more than in Mississippi, where lawyers hired by Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, have collected $57.5 million in fees during the last two years — three times as much as Mr. Hood has spent on running his state office during the same period.

Mr. Hood has taken in $395,000 in campaign contributions from trial law firms over the last decade, more than any other attorney general.

It then goes into specifics.

From "Lawyers Create Big Paydays by Coaxing Attorneys General to Sue" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/us/politics/lawyers-create...
This is slightly off topic but for some reason the headline made me realize that creationists must by definition believe that this statement is absolutely true. Even creationists who don't believe that there _could be_ other aliens life forms must believe this.

(I did RTFA and also agree with the author)
I just see: "500 Internal Server Error"
"For Zendesk, ideas associated with zen are now deeply ingrained in the company’s culture and branding. The company mascot is a Laughing Buddha, dubbed “The Mentor,” who wears a telephone headset."

They should be very careful doing business in several Buddhist countries with that as their mascot. In a lot of places it would go down about as well as a tech support business called YahwehDesk, promoted with a picture of Jesus in a call center.
I hate Sony, but if North Korea really did hack them and threaten terrorist attacks in the US purely to cancel a movie mocking their leader, then yes I feel angry and rather "patriotic". US businesses giving into terrorist threats is not a good precedent.

Also, Sony Pictures is an American company which was bought by Sony, the Japanese megacorporation.
You're late to the party https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-timesyncd ;)
I'm with you. I was really hoping today we'd see a fix in the Command Line Tools and existing XCode versions. How is Apple including the fix only in the next version (beta) a sufficient response?
Once arrived, they could instead make more humans, from parts. As a kind of larval stage, we would then build a civilization and ultimately more AI.
I bet that Notch will make it free to stay for hackers (in a good sense). This man created the best start for the next generation across the globe.
Just a nitpick: hydrogen is extremely common on Earth, but it's uncommon to find it by itself, rather than bound into some larger molecule like water or hydrocarbons.
Using the Pi for home automation tasks is always fun?

maybe create a handheld portable game emulator?
Neat. I actually knew that word, because it's the name of a fictional game in the book Infinite Jest, but I never put two and two together.
Yeah - we got HNized. Putting it behind CloudFront. Should be up momentarily.
If the product costs/benefits are equal, why not buy local? Was there an assumption that buying local is a less attractive deal?
> For fuel-cell cars to work, you would need to have energy some place that consumes water and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen, releasing the oxygen into the air, and the hydrogen into containers that can then go into some sort of infrastructure such that individual cars can be filled up with it as necessary.

Yeah, sure. We know how to do this, its called electrolysis; we even know how to build fuel cells that can both generate energy and act as electrolysis systems.

> And if you think about the amount of gasoline infrastructure that exists, we'd have to pretty much duplicate that, or convert that, into hydrogen shipping infrastructure, which is a pretty tall order.

No, we don't. Because -- as many currently existing hydrogen stations, like the public one in Emeryville, do -- you can very easily do the electrolysis at the filling station. So you just need water distribution infrastructure (which is one of the basic necessities of civilization) and electricity distribution infrastructure (which, as you note, is likewise a solved problem), and then you don't need any additional hydrogen distribution infrastructure.

> So the story for electric car adoption is "You don't have to take trips to the gas station anymore!", but the story for fuel cell car adoption is "You have to take trips to a new type of gas stations that don't exist yet!".

Well, except that they do exist now.
For my infestation, no way was I going to toss an otherwise nice expensive mattress. Took only about half an hour with a shop vac to inspect every inch of the mattress and dispose of all bugs. Or at least I wasn't bitten again.
tl;dr
>We created a Tinder profile using a picture of the woman who broke into our office. This seemed like the easiest way to get her face in front of a few thousand San Francisco residents.

I was hoping for some ingenious use of tinder (like assuming the thief was a tinder user, and right swiping til they found them). Instead, they are simply spamming their "wanted" photo on tinder to get more eyeballs.

Crime is a serious matter. We should take appropriate measures to identify criminals and alert the police. Spamming is not an appropriate measure.
You're right, but I don't think they would make this accusation purely due to a mistake. In my opinion, there are 2 possibilities:

1. The FBI knows who did it and is telling the truth by saying it's North Korea.
2. The FBI knows who did it and is lying by saying it's North Korea.

Personally I think they're telling the truth in this particular case.
Thanks for the clarification. I learned about chelation therapy in a chemistry class, many years ago, and didn't know a lot about it's actual use.
Does it monitor itself? If yes, what is it showing right now? (Site is down for me)
The source code he posted dealt with the ODataRequest class, so that's not a stretch :)

Also, the most recent OData version is 4.0: http://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-version-4-0/

Disclaimer: MS employee, not on OData team however.
Sure, but the history of computing has a lot of people solving hard/expensive problems and then having the techniques trickle down to small/cheap ones. That's my hope here.

Of course, I doubt it will ever work for the hand-built stuff. I'd guess it will only make sense for stuff whose fabrication is automated or controlled enough that it can be reasonably simulated.
Uh, does the fact that these employees tend to live in company owned dorms (ever heard of Mill Villages, "Company Store") and spend most of their time on company grounds not within and of itself something to question? Or even the fact that this has something to do with a (possible) higher suicide rate? Can you imagine living within a few hundred feet of your 60 hour manufacturing job with 3 other people in a 10 by 10 room, no time to visit family or have fun, enjoy yourself?
I think the mast majority of forum software is in PHP, because it's what was around long ago when forums were in their hayday...

Unfortunately I don't have any good suggestions one way or the other on which forum software you should use.
Good question! I think most of us with pet projects do it either to learn something or with the hopes of gaining a lot of traction and one day implement some paid feature. For me it was both.

Maybe one day if there are a lot of users I'll implement paid accounts with more than 10 alerts and history dashboard. But most likely it will never gain enough traction for that, in which case it's no problem, since I have 6 tiny servers for different activities and this only uses 2 of the with minimal resources (it's just ping). It will just sit there alerting me and some others when something goes down.
Where's the part where they actually get caught?
AquaSnap: Tiling Window Manager for Windows
That's certainly interesting, but one would have to compare North Korean dialects and translations for a complete analysis. It's very possible the language spoken there also uses "false" to mean "lies".
> I wanted to make my mark on the legacy codebase, prove that I was better than it. So I'd tell my boss I'd need the rest of the week to implement this and then dive in.

I think this statement sums up my attitude almost perfectly. I have a notion that if I channel that line of thinking into positive structural changes in the code then I should while I can. I just don't know whether or not it is a good attitude to have.
But you can measure the cells or the energy used to fuel the car each time, no?

The fact that the manufacturers are subsidizing it makes me very suspicious of why they're providing it.
The “T” stands for “sTopped”.
That's lovely but your post isn't really contributing. bmelton was pointing out an actual misuse* . "Decimate" can mean either large percentage or the traditional 10% drop, it does not mean 90% drop. Your post moves into pointless word argument territory.

* or perhaps a pun masquerading as misuse in a way that invites 'correction', an utterly terrifying category of pun I hadn't even considered before
Keep in mind that the $45 fill-up cost is for about 300 miles of driving, versus 4-500 miles for a typical gasoline car.

At current prices, my Prius v will go about 500 miles on a $30 fill-up, which would cost $75 for hydrogen, assuming $45 gives you 300 miles. Even if gas goes back to $4/gallon, it's still $45 for ~500 miles.

A full charge on a Model S would cost me something like $8, by comparison. Less if I went for time-of-use metering and charged it at night.
>RandomForest and other decision tree methods can actually handle missing data very well by treating an individual cell in the data matrix as missing

This is why I tend to favor these over regression or other methods. Real data is going to have lots of missing values, sometimes too many for imputation to even work. Whittling down your data to only those which have all predictor fields filled in can drastically shrink down your data set.
Sorry - the HN traffic just killed the server. We have the blog on a jalopy instance. Fixing - should be back up momentarily.
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Sites Blocked by UK ISPs via DNS
Judging by what the media has called trolling, I doubt the line is as clear as you seem to think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
H2 is difficult to store. To store enough of it to be useful it needs to be either very high pressure or so cold is becomes a liquid. Because it is so small, it tends to leak through most materials and can cause them to become brittle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement) but it is not "extremely corrosive". Thick carbon fiber tanks can store H2 at high pleasure so that with the efficiency of an electric drive-train, the car has good range.
hahaha, how ironic. No, there is no meta monitoring. The site it's actually up, just really slow ATM, but I'm logged it and everything look fine and access logs as fluent. I think it might be some connectivity issues with digital ocean.
I think its poor formatting or something. I've found other sources saying the company found the contact details of the burglar within 2 days.

http://www.businessinsider.com/burglar-who-targets-silicon-v...
"The connection was reset" something weird going on. Lots of HN articles is been removed by some one. Many sites I visited today, is just down.
Can't even find words for this level of irony.
For (1), the Mirai will use two 70 MPa (10,000 psi) carbon fiber tanks lined with a polyamide resin to give a range of approx. 300 miles ...

http://blog.toyota.co.uk/how-does-toyotas-fuel-cell-vehicle-...

http://www.plasticstoday.com/articles/toyotas-fuel-cell-car-...

A Toyota exec recently fired bullets at the tanks to allay fears that they would turn fuel cell vehicles into Hindenburgs waiting to happen ...

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/16/toyota-fires-bullets-hydr...
Yes, as long as both endpoints (TCP/IP stacks) keep their state it doesn't matter what stuff does between them. Interfaces being one of the things being between stacks. That is what allows for stuff like live application migration as long as you bring the TCP/IP state.
I've been surprised too to not see more responding. I've heard gripes in other threads as an aside to whatever topic was discussed.

Thanks for the comments.
Off topic, but it's pretty funny to watch Everett give a talk to a room full of generative-trained syntacticians, just to see how angry everyone gets during the Q/A section.
Good point, but apexskier/cryptoPadding doesn't have any license info, so it really shouldn't be used at all (importing, copying, or vendoring).
His book "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" is worth a read too (though a more ruthless editor may have helped even it out).
You can design fuel cells that will let you do this, but they are, IIRC, both more expensive and bulkier, so not ideal for most vehicle applications.
More importantly, who else could the USG blame? China are somewhat too important a "partner". Venezuela, well Chavez "happened to die". Cuba, friends again. Iran, bringing them slowly in from the cold. Russia, well...

It would have been more convenient for the USG to blame ISIS but nobody would believe that.

I still don't buy the N.Korea angle. They would just love the propaganda. They are quite happy to provoke the US with missile tests publicly, you don't think a hack like this they are going to want to keep quiet?

Doesn't make sense to me.
The Economics of the NYC Corner Deli
I wasn't aware of UK-born mothers' increased fertility rate.

However, I'll argue that even if the fertitily rate of immigrant mothers decreased, this can explain the data because if more immigrants came in, the average fertility rate goes up (given that immigrants' decreased rate is still quite a bit higher than UK-born).
> The US gains literally nothing pointing the finger at North Korea.

The US gains quite a lot by pointing fingers at a bad guy. This bad guy happens to be North Korea. Anything just to keep the public distracted and the media happy to report something else but CIA torture.
It's certainly wasting your time... It drives me nuts when I download a trial version of some software tool to evaluate and get phone calls from sales reps before the day is over. Calm down, I haven't had time to even try it yet...
Those BPA-free plastics you thought were safe? Think again
I do have a problem with people selling unregulated prescription drugs online

I don't get this mindset. If you don't like unregulated prescription drugs, don't buy them. OTOH, if I'm willing to gamble with my health by taking drugs I buy online...well, its my body, I can put whatever I want into it.

Now, somebody bring up antibiotic resistant bacteria as the BigGov argument. Sorry, but that doesn't hold water with me. I don't find it moral to prevent somebody from doing something today, because $HYPOTHETICAL_BAD_THING might happen tomorrow.
It is possible but would it be effective? Not likely, several countries tried to do this to prevent the citizen uprising and it didn't work.

NK could just sent agents outside of the country, hack the data, and bring it back in. They can launch satcubes to create micro-nets to hook into the network.

The Internet is meant to be resilient against these type of blockages.
There are ways of bypassing stack canaries, depending on the specific application and environment. No exploitation mitigation is ever fool-proof.

Also, in many cases applications will be distributed or have Makefiles without enabling stack canaries or sometimes even DEP and ASLR.
Regarding the Recent Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack