skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the banks are fine now, but we still can't pass even the tiniest bit of legislation curtailing the worst of their activities.

You're right; we did have to bail out the banks. The decision to absolve them of any responsibility, continue groveling at their feet, and just generally lay out a red carpet lined with bags of money for them to take on their way to the next instance of destruction...that's a choice we're making.
Google Updates 2014 – Timeline, Experts Review [Infographic]
yep most younger ppl(atleast in the cities) grew up on listening to chinese/south korean radio, there is a big underground market for cds and usb drives with all sorts of stuff on them. Access to internet is also not that uncommon among the elite.
For those not familiar with Greg's work, this presentation on the testing he did for the Opus codec is informative: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/82/slides/codec-4.pdf

Particularly slide 20.
Handling failed builds on GitHub Pages
Most likely they do. Beyond TV/radio etc, at least grad students get internet access in North Korea, so perhaps developers have some level of access too.

See this talk from 31C3 a couple of weeks ago:
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6253_-_en_-_...
People really don't want to discuss this? OK.
interesting decision: learning dom+css vs rewriting a complete UI layer in webgl.
Bit of a tangent, but using the voice "Tom" on OS X, saying "ping" says "pling" instead. Fine with other voices but rather curious.
Unique user key that was used for pre-HTTPS SafeBrowsing updates? It was necessary to get the updates MACed before Google had full HTTPS deployment. You got the key over HTTPS, then all subsequent HTTP downloads could use that key for message authentication.
That's CC-BY-SA by the way. You can reuse it as long as you attribute it to us, and release any of your changes under an open licese.
Otherwise he might have passed on ~$20k. Maybe he just didn't care.
3 Resume Writing Lessons from Shakespeare
The Swedes there are not the problem. The recent Muslim immigration is. The PISA scores are falling in Finland, too, in accordance with the rising number of school children of (recent) Muslim origin.

: The Tartars do not seem to be stupid and do fine.
> I'm surprised to see all the reddit hate here.

I'm not. This place was spun off of Reddit and needs to define itself in terms of being Not-Reddit even now, apparently. The best way to do that is to play up how horrible Reddit is, and, implicitly, how we're not like that at all.
They are talking about the Safe Browsing API. I don't see where this is sending microtimes though:

https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/developers_guide...

Also, I kind of dislike the alarmist tone of this paragraph. Saying that google's anti malware blacklist (used by all browsers out there aside of IE) is a secret plan to de-anonymize people by using a microtime of a request timestamp seems... far fetched.
Thing that bugs me the most about this...
...email has nothing to do with the web so why bring Tim B-L into it?
> Sir Alan Duncan said the "meaningless missives" led to "forests' worth of paper" being wasted when emails are printed out.

Well stop printing out your sodding emails then, you clown.
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Peer to Peer – Hone your skills by watching live coding videos
that option appears to be gnu-specific. -l should make it line-buffered
In a typical UNIX fashion, there's a program that runs programs:

ping 127.0.0.1 | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | xargs -d'\n' -n1 say
Linux's Creator Wants Us All to Chill Out About the Leap Second
Agnosticism is a belief that we can't possibly know whether there's a supernatural. I don't hold that view. My view is a skepticism of the supernatural, which is atheism.
How much does it cost to make an app? – SFCD
Also on an older iPad
No sugar for a month: Going cold turkey
Depends on the part of the spider. While you may not recognize where the meat comes from, if it's the abdomen of the spider then you probably would not enjoy it at all.
> You seem to be assuming that it's impossible to bail out the bank's clients and let the bank itself fail, but that is not, in fact, impossible.

It probably was impossible. Banks don't just function as holding pens for your money. They're (by design) overly leveraged based on the idea that not everyone will want their money at the same time. If the bank fails, you need to come up with all the money at once, and there was never that much money in the bank to begin with.

Maybe you could have handled this by some system in which you backed people's deposits with things like bonds, but at a minimum, it's pretty complicated. It's easier, and probably better in the long run, to just reassure everyone that their money is safe in the bank, and give the bank whatever is needed to ensure that promise is kept.

Where we went wrong was in failing to meaningfully change the system that incentivized and allowed the failure to occur in the first place. We probably couldn't have done anything to avoid bailing them out the first time, but we could be doing much more to avoid the need to do it again and again in the future, but we're not, because the banks own the government and don't want us to.
Yep. The tests are there because people don't trust the schools and looking for some independent means of motivating them to get better. Unfortunately, the testing architecture isn't entirely appropriate to the task -- but scrapping it just brings us back to the core problem.

The reality is that many of the schools, and many of the teachers, are just bad. This can't be acknowledged in the public debate, so it isn't addressed. The unions have established a structure dedicated to protecting bad and mediocre teachers. Which is why great teachers can't get paid appropriately -- the unions would never allow it. It's also why teachers don't enjoy higher status: As a group, they really don't deserve it.

Yes, the unions are right that, without tenure and their workplace rules, teacher hiring and pay would be a political game. That's what political systems do, they respond to political incentives. That's the whole idea of charters: to move the accountability of the schools out of the political system and into the hands of a constituency invested in actual quality. It's probably true that _today_ parents as a group aren't completely equipped to handle that role, because they've been trained to just send their kids off to school. But as they get the opportunity to make more decisions and influence the schools' offerings, they'll come up to speed.

tldr; The testing apparatus is a symptom of a broken governance apparatus. The solution is to fix the governance and incentives. So long as the incentives are political, the results will be political.
This argument is based on a simple assumption:

- surveillance is effective

That assumption has already proven to be incorrect.
I thought of this one too. Not happened to me yet, but it might ;)
I've eaten whole prawns on several occasions with no complaints. If they're prepared properly (fried in a batter) then they're quite tasty.
That's only because author uses a pretty standard compiler. Try building your flawless library on ARM, Newlib, etc. and you're pretty much fighting your tools all the time. The first compiler/toolchain bug is a rite of passage, yes, but not a measure of the code quality (although they do correlate).
xargs -n1 (-n is so it executes the command for each input)

You'll also need sed -l to limit buffering.

ping <host> | sed -l 's/.*/ping/' | xargs -n1 say
Is it just my network administrator or do others drop outgoing Ping messages at the corporate firewall? This has cost me and others more time than I would like to admit for some vague "security" reason that he won't or can't explain.
Human brain keeps memories tidy by pruning inaccurate ones
Which bits of reddit?

It's certainly more unregulated. That has massive downsides; generally subreddits have a high tolerance for profanity, including in usernames. Most are tolerant of various sorts of nastiness, racism and sexism.
Does anyone have a sample User Agent? I'd be very curious if anyone has tried doing some regex's on some request logs to see if they got any page hits from North Korea :)
Crowdsourcing used in Genghis Khan tomb search
I'm also very interested in the F# side of things, i haven't seen much articles blog posts about it.
Research explains how we live in harmony with friendly gut bacteria
Somehow I'm not surprised that this is what turns up when I google Roman concrete:

> “Roman concrete is . . . considerably weaker than modern concretes. It’s approximately ten times weaker,” says Renato Perucchio, a mechanical engineer at the University of Rochester in New York. “What this material is assumed to have is phenomenal resistance over time.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-secrets-of-ancient...
Mopane worms (which are caterpillars) taste like barbecued meat. Honestly, if you added Mopane meat to sausages I doubt many people would know the difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonimbrasia_belina
I have great difficulty eating shrimp and have zero desire to eat lobster or crab, precisely because of the insect-like association.
One of my favorite tricks is this one (I thought I read about it in that exact collection but it isn't there, so here you go):

Back on Wing Commander 1 we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We'd clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like "EMM386 Memory manager error. Blah blah blah." We had to ship ASAP. So I hex edited the error in the memory manager itself to read "Thank you for playing Wing Commander."
The legislation that enabled the perpetual state of not-quite-war the US has been in since then[1] was passed after a memorial ceremony mere days after 9/11. The text itself was drafted within less than a day after the events.

[1]: http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/
These seem to come from here [0] which has more and some other general tips.

[0] http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/02/coding-tricks-of-game-deve...
If those are anodized non-stick pans, using metal utensils is perfectly fine.
There's also this legendary Amazon review, which is strictly ping-related: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q
NASA and Nissan Join Forces to Build Self-Driving Vehicles for Earth and Space
It's right there in the article:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ko-KP; rv: 19.1br) Gecko/20130508 Fedora/1.9.1-2.5.rs3.0 NaenaraBrowser/3.5b4
The Internet is demanding that a substantial number people in the world, the majority of whom will never receive visas nor set their feet in Europe, to be responsible for an event that happened in Paris.
-d is a GNU extension, won't work on OSX (short of having installed and running GNU xargs), and it's not needed either in this case.

And `sed -e <command>` is redundant, `-e` is used to specify multiple commands.
VimCasts
Since the majority of their income comes from playing shows, and since it's no secret that "real" record labels have no idea what to do with any of these bands (since they're primarily live bands) there's almost no financial incentive for them to sign labels deals in the first place. Most of them start their own "label" and keep everything for themselves.

A smart banjo player I know summed up every record deal like this --

"It's a 90/10 split, all charges go to the 10".

Unless you play the style of music that labels know how to market to the point that you can actually turn a profit with that kind of deal, what's the point?
This book [1] says the popular narrative is wrong, and that "mom & pop" businesses/households were never in danger. It wasn't a bank bailout to save accounts... that would have been covered by an existing program like the FDIC[2]. It was, rather a hedge-fund / gamblers bailout.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalis...

[2] Technically the FDIC has a trivial amount of money, this link [3] shows how laughable it is in the casino of Wall St.

[3] http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/fdic/fdic.html
We need remedial ICT classes for politicians taking office. When I read things like this it makes me wonder how much other legislation is based on bogus knowledge of politicans of topics I know nothing about myself? One of the few good things about The House of Lords in the UK is the fact that there are some people in there with some know how of things outside politics.
I understand your frustration that those guys have not been caught yet (they will eventually) but now I feel the same frustration but didn't we know that "anti-terrorism" laws and surveillance are ineffective in practice ? I remember this objection being made at the time these laws were proposed.

Then again this is actually beneficial to a surveillance state as this can be used to put even more surveillance and get the population to accept it.

This is no different as using CP and piracy as pretexts for Internet censorship, or from a web company running on investor story time admitting that advertising revenue currently sucks but this means there is much room for improvement.

If you drank the koolaid and actually believe that surveillance was effective in preventing terrorism or catching terrorists afterwards, well I'm sorry you got duped.
The current policies of Obama are not necessarily the policies he would like to implement.

He voted for the cromnibus' because it keeps government open and funds a few of his signature policies, but that doesn't imply its the budget Obama wanted to pass. Obama has to be pragmatic.

Obama and Warren 'talk a good game' as you put it but I'd bet that in a different political system, say Britain's, they'd be execute on their talk.
As someone who grew up in conservative homeschooling culture and still has ties to it, I should point out that many, many conservative homeschoolers are appalled at vouchers and the idea of government funding in general.

They might like to see the public school system go away, but they don't want the tax dollars.
Well, it is just catching up with what the first mobile GPU ES 2.0 were capable of, while using a full blown OpenGL/DirectX stack for it.

WebGL is great for prototyping, but the browsers still make my NVidia card go full throttle for stuff that when coded in native language the fan is barely noticeable.
Oversimplification indeed - to the extent that for the first one year and a half of WW2 Germany and Russia were allies.
Eating crab out of its shell (sometimes they even take crab meat and put it in another crab's shell before selling it) is very common where I live. Is that really not done in the US?
godwin point to you sir.

Also please do not confuse muslims and islamists.
30 seconds clearly has to be an embellishment, but what tends to happen is that people make a decision pretty early on, and then conduct the rest of the interview in such a way as to make that decision into the correct one. The same answer can be viewed as "he got it mostly right, and in arriving at his answer, he clearly picked out the main salient issue" or "he got the obvious insight about the problem, but fumbled on arriving at a correct solution after that". Which one you go with depends on whether you've already decided the person is generally good or generally poor.

It's usually not a conscious thing, and it's something we're all prone to doing.
IN particular, that story is about 10Base2, where the topology is not hub-and-spoke but a single cable that snakes from NIC to NIC, with BNC twist-lock connectors and a T-junction at each stop. (And a required termination resistor at the end to stop reflection...)
Mixing cause and effect. The fundamental cause is how the constitution allocates power to the three branches. Power has a logic all of its own; each actor in the system acts in line with their power and this leads to the division and gridlock that you see.

It is impossible to fix the US constitution under the current political system. There has to be a fundamental realignment of power and that will most likely only happen via a major external shock, like a world war.
To be honest, its a pretty useful practice for common management tasks involving face to face meetings.

As much as I love technology, its amazing how much bringing out a laptop or tablet reduces the quality of person-to-person interaction. A printout of the email relevant to the meeting lets you refer to the key points and make notes while still giving full attention to other participants. Sensitive situations just don't let you make compromises about that.
- Sound cards

- Games consoles

- Computer designs like the Amiga
BumpTop? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BumpTop It was acquired by Google and promptly buried. It was a fun toy, but I could never see myself using it seriously. Really didn't understand what goog's interest was.
It's not uncommon for gifted students to also suffer from a learning disability [1], which goes unrecognised, because it is masked by their intelligence. Unrecognised, such students can be written off as the "naughty" one. When taught, and assessed, to their strengths, such students will shine.

By way of example, typical advice is to concentrate on challenge, rather than quantity when teaching these students. Rather than giving them 50 problems of varying difficulty, just give them the 5 hardest ones. When assessing, rather than giving them lots of questions of varying difficulty (like a typical standard test), give them fewer questions, but make them require more thought.

As a parent, who helps in the classroom and observes quite a few children, I'd say that at least 10% of the children in my (typical) school would fall into the gifted category (by measured intelligence) and of those, probably more than half have some soft of learning difficulty. I'd also say that these children will be sold short by the standardised testing.

[1] http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10462.aspx
One thing people often miss is that besides not looking very appetizing, some bugs don't really taste that great either. Well, it's more to do with the fact that they're just very bland or bitter. But, some animals are exactly the same. The reason that lamb, beef and chicken tastes "good" to us is because a: we've grown accustomed to the taste, and b: they've been farmed to be palatable (breeding, diets etc).

In Japan, some fish are given special diets to alter their flavour. I don't see why we can't do the same with insects and worms.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/10/28/a-little-citrus-for-yo...
"Farm 432" would be a great title for a dystopian science fiction novel. I'm imagining a fictional future Soviet Union where the citizens are fed with insect products from collective farms simply named "Farm #".
Russia says drivers must not have 'sex disorders'
The Escape: adventure on a bicycle is on your doorstep
New Clues on Google’s Plans for Insurance
Django Software Foundation in 2014
Could be good to have classes about (relational/noSQL) databases too I think :)
fsn[1] seen in Jurassic Park brings that kind of metaphor to the file system. I don't think it's that practical, but it sure looked wonderful in the movie. I guess we better stick to 2D interfaces as long as we don't have 3D controls that equal mouse in their practicality. Maybe one day there'll be a nice Oculus Rift enabled desktop :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
I think music and text are analogous in this regard. That is,

major label : publishing company :: soundcloud : wordpress

With content distribution so leveled nowadays, a musician's "being in a band" feels equivalent to a writer's "having a blog".
CrazyMailing it's saved from a lot of spam
Start with a default-deny policy, the only sensible course. (Google "IP over ICMP".) Note that some sysadmins need to verify external connectivity, so allow ICMP echo reply messages to those IPs (or subnets, more likely).

Result: if your machine isn't in one of those blessed ranges, you never get a response to a ping to an outside address. Most users don't complain, because they don't even know what a ping is.

So, it's not just your company, but it's not general practice everywhere.
i'm sorry but the argument saying that surveillance would only affect innocent civilians is just as sily as saying it would only affect terrorists. Either the state has the effective ability to track people's activity, or it doesn't.

My comment was just to show that, currently, the state's ability to monitor people ( in general, in france) is, contrarely to what all the posts about privacy on HN tend to suggest,still very very limited.
I read that article when it came out. I've played all those same rooms that they played on that tour, so let me speak from experience on exactly what they did wrong.

Note the part where they don't have any management, which supposedly saves them money. Then note the part where they hire bunch of extra crew to "go all out for this tour" and 3 extra band members and then end up putting something like $20k on a credit card to make ends meet on the tour because of all the extra payroll.

This is where the cliche of musicians being terrible at business comes from and where not having a manager - ostensibly to save the 15% of gross - is the ultimate false economy. Anybody here who's in business could tell you that they's lose money on that tour with all that extra payroll.

Now look where they are. They have $20k sitting at credit card APRs to pay off before they can even think of breaking even with anything in the future.

The bands I know that are more successful in smaller rooms are so because they run the numbers beforehand. It's that simple.
As you've discovered, the cheap customers aren't worth the hassle - they cost you time you could better spend on other things.

Find a competitor in your space and suggest them to you problem customers.
There are leads and there are prospects. A lead is anyone who might possibly become a customer. A prospect is someone who has been both qualified and expressed a reasonable interest in becoming a customer.

You want good customers. People who insist on not paying or only paying pennies on the dollar aren't good customers. Your price is a qualifying tool. It weeds out those who are ok if you go bust.

"Give me a good price and I'll tell my friends about you" is a red flag. People don't praise what they don't value to friends...control the message; you don't want more people like your bad customer.

Spend energy closing good prospects. Thank loose meat leads for their time and ask if they'd like to get your company's newsletter. Touch base quarterly or on some other periodically appropriate cadence.

Good luck.
It means you're a full-time professional musician. Not a part-time semi-professional musician with a day job to pay the bills, who is permanently distracted by Not Music.

>a lot of independent musicians who have achieved massive success outside of the traditional recording studio model in the internet age, largely through selling their own work and through touring.

No there aren't. There are very, very few professional musicians working that route, and hardly any of them have achieved 'massive success.' Most of the ones who did already had an old-style label-based career, or at least label+management backing.

Most of the really successful ones don't sell their own work and perform. They write and arrange songs for top performers, or they work as producers - which is what Albini does now, mostly - or they do work-for-hire movie and game soundtracks, or they write commercial music for ads, or they work as sound designers.

Being a famous name performer is a career that works for a tiny handful of (mostly) singers, who are primarily picked for sexiness and (sometimes) charisma, not for musical creativity.