skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason they can get these articles is because people genuinely love the product in a way that very very few products ever achieve, especially business focused products.
What is funny is there are users that prefer the old Opera (not based on Chromium) too.
VLC media player.
It doesn't have to be internet accessible, AFAIK. If an attacker can get something to do arbitrary DNS lookups, I think it can be attacked. For instance, monitoring/log correlation software might be vulnerable.
The argument gets a little shaky once you count effort that far back; after all, almost all of our efficiency today is due to advancements that earlier humans have done. Computers, engineering, technology, economics, science, printing, writing, fire, language.
Many people tried Marsism on a scale, but non of them managed to scala so it changed. By this very effect marxist are able to say 'marxism was not realy tried at scala'.

> Any communist/marxist country (basically any country with the word "Democratic" in its name)

Democratic is much older then marxism. Dont spread lies.

> was basically state capitalist

Revolutionarys with the EXPRES goal of marism took power and then transform them self into dictatorships. These dictatorships are then named 'state capitalist' to avoid self reflection on the marxist parts. How can a system that was created by stealing and centralising everybodys private property be capitalist, thats the exact opposite.

Just because the state is dominated by a elite and this elite has simular powers over property (right to profit, controll and transact) it is not in any way capitalist.

> people as inefficient, unmotivated labor.

The labor was unmotivated and inefficient because these countrys did a horrible job at building a system that provided for the very people they clamed to protoct and thus these people were very much in the mood for another change. As response to this these marxist revolutionary quickly turn into 'state capitalist'. The Communist policys of 1919-1921 where so terrible that lenin, trosky and bukharin agree that they had to come up with something diffrent as fast as possible, whitch lead Bukahrin to rewritte the hole system in the next 2 month and the NEP was born. This NEP was very much a return to pre 1917 (and people in ruissa had jokes about this) and it was a system that was completly unable to reach the partys goal (rapid industrialisation) anytime soon.

So this is just on example, Bukahrin had for years thought about how he would like a economic system to work, in a couple of month in 1921 he rewrote his ideals to something that was in many ways a return to zarist economics. Ideal fall out of the window when you need to stay in power and that is exactly why 'real marixm tm' has never been tried in the view of marxists.
The Underground Grammarian has a rant about legal language. If you like that kind of ranting you might appreciate this.

http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/less-than-words-can-say...

> Here is an example of the sort of thing that infuriates the advocates of plain English. It's an extract from one of those handbooks put out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, an outfit notorious not only for its torture of English but for the fact that many of its thousands of rules and regulations render each other what they call in Washington "inoperative." It's hard to decide whether the people at OSHA are simply ineffectual bumblers or supremely talented satirists boring from within. Here, for instance, is how they define an exit: "That portion of a means of egress which is separated from all other spaces of the building or structure by construction or equipment as required in this subpart to provide a protected way of travel to the exit discharge." That's not all. Now they elaborate on "means of egress": "A continuous and unobstructed way of exit travel from any point in a building or structure to a public way [which] consists of three separate and distinct parts: the way of exit access, the exit, and the way of exit discharge."

> That's certainly ugly, and it makes us wonder whether an exit has to be defined at all, and, if it does, why couldn't it just be called a way to get out. Then we wonder why a "means of egress" has to be defined at all, and, if it does, why couldn't it be called a way to get to the exit. If these reservations seem reasonable to you, it's because you're just not thinking. You are assuming that any ghastly mess of verbiage that comes from a bureaucracy needs to be simplified because it is needlessly complicated to begin with. Wrong. As it happens, that horrid prose serves its aims perfectly. Regulations of this nature have one clear purpose, and that is to answer, before the fact, any imaginable questions that might be asked in a court of law. For that purpose it's not enough to assume that everyone knows what an exit is. Is a door an exit? Maybe, but maybe not, if a drill press just happens to be standing in front of it. Is a hole in the wall acceptable as an exit? Do you really get out of the building (let's say it's ready to blow up) if you go through a door and find yourself in an enclosed courtyard instead of a "public way"? You don't have to be very clever to think of lots of other such questions, and the writer of this regulation is thinking about your questions. He has done a good job, although he has written something very ugly. But it's only ugly; it's not wrong, it's not more complicated than it has to be. It doesn't need simplification; it needs simply to be kept pretty much out of sight, lest it provide some plain English fanatics with what they think is a useful example.

I'm not convinced I agree with him. I'm sure someone could re-write this example such that it keeps the same meaning but is easier to read.
A few details here from someone who flies that plane: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/01/amazing-...
Postgres supports LISTEN / NOTIFY [1,2], and you can stream a SELECT using COPY or a cursor.

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

2. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-notify.html
I can understand lots of reasons why you might want to migrate away from Gmail, but so that people can suggest the most appropriate alternatives, what is it about Gmail that makes Gmail not appropriate for you?
"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

-Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
My app has 5 to 10K sign ups. When do I start looking for investors?
How do I know when I need investor money? I'm waiting (what feels like forever) for the first company to finish test-running it before deploying to 19 grocery stores and more.
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Ditching small planes has something like a 90% survival rate, and that includes planes that ditched in much worse situations.

For someone in a bad enough situation that they are willing to commit insurance fraud by faking a crash, it probably is a pretty good risk.

See this earlier comment for a link to data on small plane ditching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8957313

That said, insurance companies aren't stupid. Would they really let the person insure the plane for so much that it is better to lose it for insurance than to simply sell it?
Ben is not a dumb guy. I may be dulling out some of the details, but Im sure it was not that simple. Especially since it was about 7 years before the advent of twitter and involved SEC regulatory compliance.
"This package of loans returns N times the risk free rate of return but is just as safe, according to ratings agencies!"

Do people really not remember 2008? Jesus. The problem of course is that a conflagration in one sector of the financial markets all too easily spreads to others (remember when it was just subprime mortgages that were in trouble? then when it was just mortgages? then when HOLY SHIT THE APOCALYPSE IS EXTREMELY NIGH, SELL EVERYTHING AND BUY SPAM/AMMO?), e.g. through highly leveraged and interwoven networks of derivatives. If (when) this goes tits up I hope there are enough risk analysts being listened to at the Too Big To Fail orgs that counter-party/swap risks are minimized to just the direct players in this market.
Charlie Townes was a really great man. I remember how he used to somewhat regularly show up to the undergrad physics seminar 5 minutes late, grab a slice of pizza, and then leave 5 minutes later. At ~92 years old, nobody could do anything but smile! One time a seminar speaker, bemused by his sudden appearance then disappearance, decided to share with us a cool anecdote:

Back during WWII, Townes was working on Radar navigation tech for bombers. He and another scientist were sitting in the back of a military plane, doing experiments off the cost of Florida or someplace. They had finished their measurements and told the pilot to turn around and head home. They were continuing to play around with their toys when they realized that, according to their radar, they were heading _away_ from the coast.

The two scientists went up to the cockpit, claiming there had been a navigation error, insisting they must turn around. The pilot must have been crazy to listen to these two geeks, frantically trying to explain radar (which basically didn't exist yet!), but eventually agreed. If they hadn't turned around, that plane would have run out of fuel and crashed somewhere over the Atlantic. In that world, perhaps the laser still would not have been invented!
I keep saying it, but the demoscene is probably the 3rd great software movement (after commercial software and open source/free).

It's a weird kind of 3rd way, it's not open source, it's free as in beer, there's tons of help/guides/talks available, but source is rarely made available due to the competitive nature of the scene. Demogroups (or members of groups) frequently end up in the commercial world and it's been C64->Amiga->DOS->Windows for the most part, almost completely skipping Linux, OS X and other x-nix derived platforms (though there are plenty of exceptions). It's unusually prolific, there are literally tens of thousand of pieces of software and at least a half million pieces of music produced by the scene...and it's almost entirely purposeless with scant few connections to the commercial world.

The result is frequently stunning technology and art (and sometimes technology that's so elegant it's basically art on its own), splinter scenes and a constant showcase of real-time techniques that continue to push what even grizzled computing veterans think is possible.

And oh yeah, it's mostly populated by people young enough to have not even graduated college.
As a non-professional in the area of Linux security, let me share what I figured out while patching Ubuntu 12.04 servers for GHOST. In my situation at least, I got confused by looking for glibc and eglibc, which are listed as packages to be patched in http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-20....

I wanted to know what version of glibc and eglibc my servers were running so that I could check that they were getting updated. Running

dpkg -s glibc

and

dpkg -s eglibc

turned up nothing. How could that be since there had to be a C library?!

Answer: there are indeed compiled C libraries on my servers. I found that the key packages to update were related to libc6 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libc6), which were compiled from eglibc.

At any rate, I patched my servers with a typical procedure:

sudo apt-get update
sudo unattended-upgrades

BTW, it helped me to understand that Ubuntu 12.04 uses eglibc and not glibc: http://askubuntu.com/questions/372864/why-ubuntu-uses-eglibc... to make sense of the charts at http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-20..., especially the reason for the "DNE" (does not exist?) for Ubuntu 12.04 and glibc.

Hope this is clarifying to someone out there. Would love to hear confirmation or refutation of my reasoning here.
No it isn't, it's been around a lot longer than that. I love the Illumintus books, but they're a rehash of existing concepts. I suggest you check out Guy Debord's Society of the spectacle; as well as the book, there's a film which is available in full on Youtube and narrated by Debord himself. Of course such ideas had been floating around in philosophy for longer than that, but Debord's work was very current when the first Illuminatus trilogy was written around 1975.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
this is a good thing. all I see is that someone who would normally not have the ability to drive a BMW be able to enjoy the use of one - however temporarily. I do not believe I have the moral superiority nor the arrogance to determine what constitutes a "responsible" decision for another person, or make a value judgement for them without appreciation of their values, let alone forcing them on such a path. here are two parties - one who needs a car (and all the intangible satisfaction in excess of the basic utility that comes with it), and another who is willing to take extra risk on their capital for a bit more income. how presumptuous it is to stand between their relationship.
That's a wonderful story. I'm not sure what I like most, the electronics troubleshooting, the perils of pre-GPS navigation over the ocean, or the cavilier-but-thoughtful approach to solving all sorts of problems encountered along the way. Thanks for posting it.
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I must say, that the sense of realism in that was really good! Allow me to just point out a few things that would help it get nearer to perfect! (This is good heart'ed feedback obviously!):

1. The bathroom door was somehow unnaturally bent backward, it really was the only thing that clicked instantly (even in 144p!) [Perhaps its just me :/ ]

2. Near the end of the video, the hallway was a bit too dark, global lights suddenly dimmed, the transition was unnatural (slightly ..), but it is not as noticeable as point no1.

3. From a artistic point of you, I would have preferred if the sofa in the second room (living room) would have had a slight shade of yellow (sun effect).. just a tiny bit to separate it from the bedroom scene. The reason I feel is perhaps because of nature of both rooms, Bedrooms have a blue sleepy appeal, living room are a bit cheerful, and since here the source of light was sun, it should have had that warm hue for the sense of realism to be even better. The other reason is perhaps because the set contains only 3-4 rooms plus lobby, that slight tone of diversity would have had a profound artistic uplift.

PS: Please take it as just feedback, and not as criticism. Dude! I can't even though half of that.. so salute to you and best of luck :)

Love from India ~
Webpack/ES6/React/Gulp Boilerplate
If the source code is not available and it's distributed as a binary, by definition it can't be open source. (Plus some might argue about OSS licensing too)

Chromium may be OSS, but Chrome is not.
Sure they remember. They remember that the last time this happened, taxpayers were fleeced to prop up the organisations and individuals who should have lost everything.

Google 'moral hazard' for a more detailed explanation.
Have you read 23 Things they Don't tell you about Capitalism, by chance? I think you would enjoy it.

http://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Dont-About-Capitalism/dp/1...
Its a economic war. Sitting on the switch and sniffing cleartext is easy and cheap. Compromising every enduser point and the aggregating all the data is much, much harder. More risk of detection, less reliablity and it needs constant uptake because of software and hardware updates.

The NSA is not able to do this at the moment and they do everything they can to avoid having to do it thatway. Keep with the words of Snowden "Secure crypto properly developed", if we can make that happen we can increase worrying about end user devices.

-Prio 1: Secure Crypt

-Prio 2: Good secure, crypto code

-Prio 3: Secure Enduser devices
Microsoft Extends its Support for R through its purchase of Revolution Analytics
About the battlefield combat: I'm not sure HEMA can really explore battlefield combat at scale, at least not with very strict minimum requirements on armour.

HEMA tries to follow the authentic fighting styles very closely and therefore places a lot of emphasis on killing/disarming blows, including stabs to the head (at eye level) or throat and slashes at the hands. This works with sufficient protective gear under controlled conditions.

Battlefield scenarios as seen in re-enactment are far more chaotic. It works because the ruleset is the spectral opposite of HEMA: no stabs to the head, no blows to the hands. Basically medieval combat without the "fun parts".

I don't think it'd be possible to create that kind of environment with a HEMA ruleset without making a whole lot more dangerous and accident prone.

OTOH battlefield re-enactment can frequently get away with barely any armour at all (because the rules emphasize safe techniques) while plated gambesons and face guards seem to be the norm in most of HEMA.

Meh. What do I know anyway.
While in grad school at UCB, I once found myself in physics building elevator with Dr. Townes and 2 young undergrads. The students were taking an intro level physics course, non-physics majors, and didn't know who he was. They started talking about the class, and lasers in particular, and how cool they were. Dr. Townes didn't say anything, but I still enjoyed being present for that.
System.js/jspm/ES6/React Boilerplate
Do what I did: go learn that CS stuff on your own :) it's fascinating, and gives me motivation when building standard CRUD app isn't doing it for me. Coursera, the MIT lectures, books: dive in, and you'll come out the other side with understanding and knowledge that will help you in the long run. If you enjoy coding, and enjoy problem solving and logical thinking, you'll probably enjoy learning those topics on your own as much as I have been!
I have a theory that it is on purpose, they want the home screen to be filled with well-known movies and if you only have a handful of them at any given time it shows the same ones all over the place. Instead of seeing random not so popular movies and thinking of stop using the service because of few "good and popular" movies.
That is explicitly not what the parent poster was claiming.
the 2 'low hanging fruit' solutions they can implement to drastically improve the recommendations:

1. use the 'percentage of series viewed' as a weight for the recommendations, so i don't end up with a list of shows similar to the one i watched only for 1 episode

2. filter out the shows/movies i've watched already

i can't even imagine why these haven't already been implemented, seem like such a no brainer.
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When you get your private pilots license, the rule is "always keep flying". No matter what problem you have, as long as you have altitude and speed first, you've got time to solve whatever the problem is.
I think your parents argument is that it isn't sustainable. If one can learn and be productive as quickly as the OP, then it follows that the developer "shortage" will only be temporary for this particular corner of the industry.
Also, being on PPAPI means that it's fully sandboxed; add to that that google auto-updates it without nah screens and installer downloads, and you get a far higher level of security
I'll put up $100 that oil and gas prices will continue to fall and then stay low (let's say at most around $50 a barrel) for years and years, no matter what the Saudis do. It's very simple, there is a very large supply and so the resource will be cheap as long as that is the case.
How is hound better than ag [1]?

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
He's not being misleading. It's clear from the context of what Richard Leider was saying that "faster" in this scenario means "faster than the old YouTube + Adobe Flash" approach. His point of comparison isn't a totally DRM free scenario.
What's the point of "-f -"? Why not just omit -f entirely?
This is incredibly handy, keep up with the great work.
Okay, perhaps? Not sure I've ever had a pasta that didn't taste better fresh. Can you name an example? I'm no expert but I'm not a complete noob either.
Apple will ship Watch in April
What does Google Takeout give you? Is it not something that can be directly imported into other mail clients?
Since you are using youtube to learn songs on guitar, you might try this out (I made it):

http://tunetranscriber.com

Let's you do marks and loops as well as using the playback controls.
Does buried cable somehow mean we can't get fiber? We also have buried cable. I thought most of Charlotte had it.
It depends on your market. Some ideas are winner take all (e.g., Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube) while other ideas can have multiple major market players (e.g., Uber, Lyft, etc.). Depending upon your market, you may or may not have to worry.

In my opinion, the best way to a successful start-up is to ensure that your own economics works (cost of customer acquisition + cost of serving customer < life time value of the customer). If your company can be profitable, it really doesn't matter what your 'competitors' are doing. In fact, focusing too much on your competitors can be a very bad thing.

If you idea falls into the camp of winner takes all, then you will need to raise money to capture the market.

In reality, very few start-ups fall into winner take all and the fact that there is funding in this space is a good thing. You don't ever want to work on an idea that cannot be validated in the market.
Me too. I just got back from a trip to the Apple Store because of continued wifi problems. I hadn't heard about the release but the Genius tech mentioned that it just came out. What was super-annoying is that the tech never mentioned that complaints of 10.10 wifi issues are extremely common. He seemed surprised that I was having issues at all.
They will probably hustle now. But their "fiber" wasn't true fiber like Google Fiber. RST's solution was fiber to a wireless node that would power multiple homes.
> the whole large ships argument is lost on Korean chaebols

Especially when Samsung just built the world's largest: http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-largest-ship-ever-built-fi... :-)
about in video in academia, ever.