skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case anyone doesn't know what you're talking about:

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-16

A small number of taxpayers has accumulated larger IRA balances, likely by investing in assets unavailable to most investors—initially valued very low and offering disproportionately high potential investment returns if successful. Individuals who invest in these assets using certain types of IRAs can escape taxation on investment gains. For example, founders of companies who use IRAs to invest in nonpublicly traded shares of their newly formed companies can realize many millions of dollars in tax-favored gains on their investment if the company is successful. With no total limit on IRA accumulations, the government forgoes millions in tax revenue. The accumulation of these large IRA balances by a small number of investors stands in contrast to Congress's aim to prevent the tax-favored accumulation of balances exceeding what is needed for retirement.
Heh, the check's already in the bank. What can they do to us now? (Just kidding. I actually ran the post by them and they had no issues at all -- I'm honestly not sure what I would have done if they did have a problem with it).
I think this is meant to be a demonstration of how ineffective removing something from search engines is. Even if you are using Google, you will still get the Wikipedia page and other pages that link to it, so it's now just two clicks instead of one. It doesn't really hide the page, but it shows the flaws in the censorship system. I think it's a good move.
Another information from someone using Lua for years:

Sometimes the hardware/OS/drivers/something else is buggy with floats...

I once designed a game that needed integers for some things, and implemented it with Lua, on Windows machines it started to sometimes give VERY WRONG results (even in very short operations, like reporting that 5+5 == 11 or that 8+2 == 9, those are actual errors, not just short numbers to make typing easier).

Later I found out it had to do with a infamous directX bug, where it changed the settings of the floating point units without permission, and sometimes this resulted into really, really, really funky floating point math, meaning that all math made with Lua in those cases maybe could be completely wrong.

Back then when I found this (The issue, not the reason for it), many Lua devs kept telling me I as crazy or a troll, thankfully one guy in freenode.net #lua had the brilliance to tell me to check if it was the DX issue (and it was... the issue don't happened on Linux or OSX)
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Logitech keyboards (and probably others as well) let you use a single receiver for all the logitech wireless devices (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/promotions/6072).

If you have a unique key embedded in each keyboard/dongle pair, you would lose the ability to do this. In addition, if you lost the dongle, you would be SOL.

I think more people will care about the convenience instead of the security.

Ideally, you could have both; what if the keyboard had a USB slot that you plug in a dongle to pair it? You could have it generate a random key whenever a dongle is plugged in, to prevent someone plugging in their dongle to your keyboard (it would only pair with one dongle at a time).
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It very well might. A thinly traded asset with limited (but expensive) price history, independent assessors willing to attest to its inherent uniqueness...

It's distinct from "lying" about the value - you're intentionally manipulating the market price. Which, actually, is more or less legal for collectibles (unregulated by the SEC) even if you were explicit about it, which you wouldn't be.

Worst case is after taking you to court you're forced to revise the value down somewhat.

http://qz.com/103091/high-end-art-is-one-of-the-most-manipul...
Yes I believe doing tax/accounts yourself is simple if your tax affairs are simple. All the online book keeping software nowdays is quite sophisticated. I just have to type in what I bought or sold.

The VAT I pay each quarter is just a sum of the VAT I typed in on entry. So generating and submitting the VAT return is literally just one click.

End of year tax is just the difference been costs and sales (profit). In the UK, HMRC, provide you this PDF form where you input the total sales etc, they calculate the tax for you. So it really is just form filling.

I believe being a native Belgium there is nothing stoping you from forming a UK company, nor taking it's profits back to Belgium?
Many of the capabilities described in the article are just hardware features which don't need any control from application developers, but their effectiveness can be improved if the developers are aware of them (e.g. caches, TLBs). Others properties are exploited automatically by compilers (e.g. instruction scheduling for improving throughput in a superscalar processor)

Instruction set extensions (which I believe might be what you were thinking of) are used via intrinsics and assembly programming by pretty much any performance-oriented code. For example look at the dozens of architecture-specific implementations of glibc functions: x86-64[0], arm[1].

[0] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=tree;f=sysdeps/x86...
[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=tree;f=sysdeps/arm...
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Yes, let's get the government involved. They obviously have the best incentives for enforcing strong crypto here.

The strong fist of the government never fumbles.
Because you eventually have to eat. And also eating and hunger are heavily linked to all sort of hormonal/psychological impulses(ask anybody that has tried and failed to lose weight), staving yourself out for a few days is a great way to encourage a binge, which creates a massive blood sugar spike and leaves said diabetic far behind where they began.

Also, in pre-industrial era(well, pre artificial insulin), diabetes was a death sentence, although the treatment of the time was related to diet(high protein very low carb). However, just because something is a treatment, or relieves some aspects of a disease, does not make it a cure. The diabetes patients lived longer with the modified diets, but they still died in fairly short order and suffered through absolutely horrible symptoms.
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>> Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze.

> This is due to their poverty, not the cold. If it was just cold there, as opposed to cold and impoverished, they could either keep water constantly running through the pipes, or, if that won't work, insulate them better, possibly with heating coils.

Outhouses are common in Alaska (outside of cities) as well, and it isn't exactly "poverty", but it is a significant cost to keep pipes from freezing.
> > Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze.

> This is due to their poverty, not the cold.

I'm more worried about the physiologic consequences of exposing, um, private parts to minus a bajillion degrees. I'm pretty sure you have to finish in a couple minutes, max, or else all sorts of really bad things will happen.
There are a few utf-8 libs for lua, some in pure Lua.

https://github.com/starwing/luautf8

https://github.com/luapower/utf8/blob/master/utf8.lua
A Morgan is a kind of vehicle, likely that one was a small roadster.
You could do pretty well just by ripping off some C# RSA example code. Find a moderately competent programmer, pay them for 2-5 hours of work...sure, why not. Just stick to the high-level APIs and you should be fine.

But realistically, nobody will be able to shut down the FOSS tools that already exist. Use Tor or VPNs if necessary in countries with internet censorship.
It might be worth mentioning that I already am quite fimiliar with functional concepts and occasionally use them in my code. I find them more verbose in C++ and Java despite my familiarity with them.
Well, they thought so too. And it turned not to be true. And now they're blaming the others.
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At a prior company managing firewalls for SMBs that didn't have room for patch management beyond "automatically apply patches", we loved the predictability of Patch Tuesday. Often we would purposefully schedule around it, so if PT did break something, we could point to the schedule and say "nope, we didn't change anything on the box that Tuesday."
It's important because as it says in the article, artists (Taylor Swift, e.g.) care about how much people get for free. So the ratio of paid to unpaid is pretty much the heart of this news.
Well, if things don't go well, the Long Now has a terrific bar you can drown your sorrows at! But seriously, it's an interesting matchup.
That was very enlightening. I'm surprised that a there have been enough one time purchases through the app store to cover two developer's salaries, Apple's commission, and a hundred-ish Linode servers over the course of three years.

I would think with a one time purchase each user becomes increasingly unprofitable (until they eventually reach a negative LTV) and the operation becomes untenable. Does Forecast.io monetize in ways other than the Dark Sky app? (I admit only being vaguely aware of them as a non iPhone user)
maths[1], not math.

[1] http://www.word-detective.com/2011/05/math-vs-maths/
In my experience, it's actually very hard to do so. It takes active practice to reinforce a way of thinking that's just not natural. You can check out "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle for suggestions and techniques to quieting your mind. I believe one example for those just starting out is to observe your inner monologues as they happen and simply note them. It has an interesting side effect of stopping your wandering thoughts in it's tracks sometimes. For about 5-6 months I was able to practice "being in the now" and I have to say it really was worth doing and I wish I was better able to stay in that frame of mind for longer. Alas, with most things if you don't practice it then you generally lose it.
Very cool, but seems like it would be nice to have the hardening steps documented outside of code too (for those of us with more exotic provisioning tastes).
An ultra-thin nanomaterial is at the heart of a major breakthrough by Waterloo scientists who are in a global race to invent a cheaper, lighter and more powerful rechargeable battery for electric vehicles.

Another minor advance in surface chemistry, heavily overpromoted. This seems to be standard operating procedure in "nanotechnology". At least the headline says "one step closer", not "invented new battery".

They made a similar announcement back in 2009: (http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v8/n6/full/nmat2460.html). Here's what they said six years ago: The Li–S battery has been under intense scrutiny for over two decades, as it offers the possibility of high gravimetric capacities and theoretical energy densities ranging up to a factor of five beyond conventional Li-ion systems. Herein, we report the feasibility to approach such capacities by creating highly ordered interwoven composites. .., Reversible capacities up to 1,320 mA h g-1 are attained. The assembly process is simple and broadly applicable,... That battery turned out to last for only two or three charge cycles. Now they claim to have fixed that.

There are at least eight other LiS battery research projects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery) and at least three startups (oxisenergy.com/) (sionpower.com/) (polyplus.com). Sion Power has shipped some usable batteries, which were used in the Zephyr, a solar/battery powered all electric UAV that stayed up for 14 days.
I was under the impression that the primary key was stored as part of the row. Or do you mean the primary key index? If so, then there is already clustering:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-cluster.html

Although it's somewhat soft in that tables are only clustered on demand, and not kept in rigorously clustered order after that.
I used to listen to last.fm "radio" which starting 2013 switched to just streaming one Youtube video after the next. Example http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Deepcentral/similarartists

I've let it run in some browser tab in the background and there doesn't seem to be any time limit how long it can run. Bandwidth-wise it doesn't make sense at all. Owned by CBS Interactive so it's legit.
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Why stop there? I suggest making laws that will enforce strict curfews, limitations on areas of travel and also wearing mandatory unremovable collars that will enable security forces to immediately neutralise any citizen in case they turn out to be a terrorist.

I could say something about how this is exactly how terrorism wins, but that's not really the case. This is just how we lose.

These ideas of sweeping restrictions could be due to the same incompetent thinking that caused the problem in the first place, or might be a cynical leveraging of the situation to quench an unending thirst for more control and power, but whatever the reason, this is the kind of thinking that threatens the foundations on which free societies are built upon.
I'm sure many would love to get high-res versions of these pics, any chance he'll make them available?
You would be surprised, I think. The RSA/AES stuff in C#'s System.Security.Cryptography library is pretty robust and easy to use. Copy/Pasting from MSDN will get you quite far.
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Are you working on compilers and runtimes? If you are interested in doing this, please shoot me an email svembu at zoho
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Friedrich Goltz's boiling frog experiment with the slow temperature increase to boiling only worked after he removed the brains of the frogs - all others actually jumped out above 25C+ - when you watch various UK TV shows one can certainly assume that at least some of the actors / watchers must have had their brains removed to be able to endure this. I'm not sure if that applies to the majority of the population (yet) ;-)
I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that there is no other company in the world that understands the effects of releasing patches as much as Microsoft does.

Large enterprises already have centralized patch management, so they can decide how fast it gets pushed downstream to their users after MS releases the patch.
Except in any decent language, however typed, improper function calling creates errors.

I can't believe in 2015 there are still people who follow the "invalid input should produce invalid output" mentality.
The reason is because they're based off the same principle. "ARN" stands for "Amazon Resource Name".

I don't know why they didn't use URNs. Probably because nobody else does.
I went to University in Fairbanks, AK. It's a pretty unique place, probably one of the largest population centers where it routinely goes below -50F. Practical things I've learned:

1. Running outside is pretty comfortable with the proper equipment until about -20F, but is possible down to around -40s as long as you wrap something around your face and/or have clothing to "pre-warm" your air. At around -60F breathing deeply (and not into your coat) becomes painful and dangerous.

2. Metal "burns" and blisters your hands from -20F and below. The fast transfer of heat from your hands from things like snow can make them numb and inoperable in seconds.

3. The triple combination of battery blanket/oil pan heater/block heater is usually winning, but nothing beats a garage. The worst part about living off campus was walking a half mile from class AND THEN sitting in your car for 15 minutes waiting for it to become drivable.

4. It's amazing what humans can adapt to. If it was a 5 minute walk I would usually just have a big and avoid the time-consuming, but best way to stay warm (parka + layering). Also I'd usually wear jeans. When it would bump up to 20F people would be wearing shorts outside.

(From comments) - We have never had problems (I was only there six years, anecdotal) with weather interfering with internet/cell service. Some jack-ass clipped a fiber cable once, but that's all I can remember.
(From comments) - A lot of our buildings go 2-3 floors underground. We still have tunnels linking buildings together, but they are no longer accessible by the students.

As far as work goes the pipeline runs through Fairbanks, but the main centers of employment I saw were the University and the Military Base.
Dark Sky is kind of an expensive app, as apps go: $3.99. Which means we have a small percentage of the market, giving it a very different growth curve from free apps. Our rate of revenue has been slowly increasing since we launched. And since our market share is so low, I don't see us running out of potential customers any time soon.

(And to answer your other question: Forecast.io makes some money, but not much. And we do have an increasingly large revenue stream in our data API)
[2] You saying no-one makes fun of Liz? Our libel laws are hideous, but making fun of the queen or other royals is something that regularly occurs in UK media. And given the UK royals, to ban taking the piss out of them would be blatant entrapment.
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I've got one. I have a hard time believing that they can be made for $1000 today. The fit, finish, and complexity is astonishing.
Just to be clear, an OEM or google play app is still free to ship their own rendering engine, see firefox. But the builtin stuff on android is all chromium now.
Whoa, autoplaying elevator music is quite the contrast to the hacked site's message and color scheme.
My guess: "nobody uses URNs generally, so might as well save four bytes off every one?"
I usually call nvidia's SMX a core. Nvidia's warp/hw thread architecture is sure interesting, but one has to remember it's mostly to get around memory bottlenecks. All those contexts need also a lot of gates. GDDR5 has high throughput but has an order of magnitude higher latency.

Ray-tracing doesn't really buy much unless you're doing some specific subset of effects. Rasterization covers 99% of cases with higher efficiency.
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> It fits with the logic though. If your god is omnipotent, then whether you pray before or after death shouldn't make any difference.

Perhaps also 'omniscient': if your god is all-knowing, then it need not wait until you pray to act on your prayer.
It seems the topic of privilege often arises to promote empathy in some roundabout way. I just think empathy is a good concept that stands without the help of privilege. It's possible that pointing out the disparity in privilege can guilt empathetic emotions into some -- but this message then becomes unfairly reserved for those deemed as "privileged". Empathy is good for everyone. Privileged or not.
Yeah, I don't see why you folks couldn't fix both the school and the college system at the same time. You should be free to fix your problems in any order you want.

Just remember that I don't have kids in school nor in college, and taking my money to pay for more unfireable teachers is not "fixing".
I was thinking these sort of policies are more representative of how democracy and security services are constructed: Politicians just want to show they are doing something, so swipe at an easy target. Security services ask for more information gathering tools for the same reason corporations try to maximise their profit: its their job to do so.

It's not going to change until people truly appreciate the trade-off of freedom vs. security, which probably wont happen until the majority really feel the pinch of losing the former.
Well... if you'd stop blowing shit up, maybe we wouldn't invade your damn country.

/endintolerance

Notepadd++ seems like an odd target.
tldr its a set of open source puppet/chef/others modules to harden the default configuration of common daemons.
> 20 or 30 days without food will resolve most symptoms in most humans.

Your advice is much more lethal than you think. You should not pretend to know things about medicine when you don't.
Interesting. I've heard 50/50 on that from other people. Some think the first size looked better, others agree the bigger version was better.

In the end it's likely best to just stick with the HIG.
I mean the full row is stored in the primary-index.

Secondary-indexes contain the 'primary-key' and not the 'heap-position' of the row.

How mysql-innodb, mssql, tokudb have them.
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This was shot on assignment for a magazine and Vincent Laforet is a professional photographer. Asking for high-res images shot on assignment is akin to asking a software developer to open-source the code they wrote under contract for an employer.
How do they infer "So you think Islam is terrorist" from a statement of support for free speech? You'd think some basic proofreading would be in order if you're going to go through the effort to make such a statement.

Edit: Why was this submission frozen/removed?
fwiw, the only reason Lua is a decent language nowadays is that it was able to evolve in a backwards incompatible way. If we had frozen the language back in the 90s like they did with JS then Lua would be super shitty (no lexical scope, coroutines, metatables, etc etc)
I really like Grasshopper (http://www.grasshopper.com), these days I use it for a second phone line for business-y stuff or things where I don't want to give out my cell.

Previously I had it at a consulting company, using the voice mail to email transcription and directory stuff (1 to John Smith, 2 to John Doe)
heh I love their openness and I also love their app and API. From a consumer perspective, I'm happy for them and hope they don't go away anytime soon.

And in case you're not aware their hourly feed has kick ass data that is amazingly accurate.
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This is like an Onion article but evidently real.
Hi Adam, this is a fascinating post, thanks for writing it! I'm Jacob, of PressureNet, and in fact Dark Sky is the reason I'm still building weather software! You beat me to consumer-focused radar postprocessing (I was working on this using McGill's radar data in 2010, and stopped when you launched) and you did a really good job - such a good job I took a look around and started collecting barometric pressure data in a new attempt at making the best hyperlocal weather forecast! You and your team are inspiring. :)

I'd be thrilled to talk about your data API and forecast tech, especially if you're considering working with phone sensors to improve your forecast models. I'm jacob@cumulonimbus.ca, have a look at http://pressurenet.io if you're interested.

Thanks for building great products and writing great posts!
It makes you much more popular with the majority, sadly.
Agreed. It is kinda odd.
I don't think that Notepad++ will be doing too well after this.
Especially as they already had a blow from the exposure of those in-binary jokes.
Well, to be fair, we (as in the West as a whole, not USA specifically) sorta invaded and messed up them first. They understandably retaliated, which we use for further excuses to invade/manipulate them even more...
Probably because it's a relatively small target to attack while still gaining some exposure, such as front page on HN.
Of course they have to test internally first. Once the patch is validated, why sit on it for three weeks waiting for that arbitrary date? Put it out as soon as it's ready.
I don't want to share the road, to put my life in the hands of robots.

On the other hand, I don't want to share the road, to put my life in the hands of idiot drivers. I may have confidence in my own abilities, but who knows what some other driver I might meet is like - maybe they're a bad driver, maybe their drunk or over-tired, maybe their just wreckless. I'll be much happier when every car on the road is a robot and all of these issues largely go away.