skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not prepared to debate the science, but the human connection (or rat connection I guess) account is only one way to look at it. Another is that what the rats needed was an enriched environment, with anything to do other than take drugs. Enriched environments loom large in a lot of psych, development, and neuroscience research.

This certainly accords with sub-acute 'addictive' behaviors in my own life -- there are no more horrific episodes of binge-eating, drinking, and general shitty life decisions as when I'm at odds and ends, sitting around the house, with nothing to do, or nothing I feel like doing. Which has implications, in the internet age, of what it means to be an enriched environment.

This folk psychology also dovetails with one of the article takeaways -- throwing people in jail where all they can do is rot is unlikely to do anybody much good in the long run.
Actually, we're not.

The original legal question is about wiretapping. Previous posters asserted that people think email is technically secure. My assertion is that someone with passing knowledge of the subject does not believe that to be true.
Internal Concept of Timers in JavaScript
I bought it at Chapters/Indigo today, to my surprise they had 3 copies. You think it ended up on bookshleves because of his endorsement ?
DRM = SkyNet
I have noticed cats, even light-couloured cats, can't seem to resist sitting on black backpags of duffel bags. Has anybody else noticed black-bag-seeking behaviour before?
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Also entered into Aviator: https://github.com/WhiteHatSecurity/Aviator/issues/60
µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny
You can buy a digital version of the typeface for 40 pounds at http://www.typespec.co.uk/doves-type/
Just like crypto, you really shouldn't roll your own phone number validation libraries. Just use Google's libphonenumber[0]. There's an iOS port of it [1].

[0] https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber

[1] https://github.com/iziz/libPhoneNumber-iOS
it's a mistake, though. the word durrency appears no where in the article.
This is closer to M-PESA, I think: operating on mobile phones, a financial service for the unbanked. Because Ecuador is dollarised but can't print their own $, physical wear on notes is a significant cost. A digital service allows for an expansion of the money supply (M1? not M0), cost savings in money transfer, etc.
> separating a device like this onto its own internal private network

That doesn't really solve the problem that your TV could be relaying everything you say to a remote server, does it?
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Thanks for sharing the benchmarks.

I'm not sure how 6to5, or any other transpiler, could do much better. The job these tools exist to do necessarily means they can't do better than what today's browsers' JS engines will support.

Presumably in due course browsers will provide ES6 natively and so be better able to optimise code that uses tail calls in this way. Still, it's important to realise that the 6to5 implementation is much slower, and more of a forward-compatible stepping stone if you need it than something to use routinely if you like a functional programming style.
I usually get a lot of this, can you find me number of x from this file and y that DB table for December .

I find myself using 'join' a lot.
Getting the private registry to work with TLS is really painful though:

https://github.com/docker/docker-registry/issues/541
How does a rejection like that work in practice? Was that the question the interview hinged on?

A reasonable interviewer could just say "Alright, now can you do it without using the standard library?".
See http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff for similar
What is Corporate Identity Design and why it is important to your business?
WORD!

Generally, programmers who are afraid of the command line aren't very good at putting textual commands into a program text file, either.

They will cling for dear life to code generators and other such facilities in an IDE. (but not the good kind of code generators that define an original source DSL to be expanded into otherwise unseen code by the build process itself, always the IDE based code generators that generate mountains of crap code that now must be read and saved in source control)

They will cling to rigid, bloated, frameworks that require that they fill in parameters in an XML file, and write (many, scattered) tiny pieces of code to fill in the blanks for that framework, but which allow little variation from the application style which the framework mandates.

Beware the illiterate, programmer, grunting at cave paintings on the wall (clicking pictures on the screen, only).

See also: Pragmatic Programmers - power of text/shells sections; Neil Stephenson - "In the Beginning was the Command Line" essay.
If it helps, I feel that way about the Opera.

Over the years I've had both experiences where I've asked for someones recommendation and found it amazingly accurate, and found what was recommended ordinary or uninspiring. My take on it is that the way people absorb information is unique to the individual and some presentations get through that filter and some don't.

The other important thing I learned was that the filter changes, as you become more educated in a subject, you can pick up more with less if the author assumes you already know the basics. When writing for publication I sometimes felt I was explaining too much but my editor would dial that in for me, when I described to little she would gently prod me back to reality with "How the hell is someone reading this supposed to know what that means?" :-) When I went to far she would chastise me with "Everyone already knows that."

I've read Brooks, and in my opinion he writes for people who are already in the role of business leader and are trying to advance by not making the mistakes others have made. But is it brilliant? I don't know. Can it be brilliant for Bill and Warren and not for anyone else? Probably. I found it useful but not as useful as Larry Bossidy's "Execution: the discipline of getting things done" [1] which really helped me understand what "progress" was when you were a manager versus when you were an engineer and progress was "obvious" in the sense that the project got completed. But I can't say that Execution is more brilliant than Business Stories, they are just different and one was better for me.

Bottom line don't sweat it if you don't see the brilliance, note it and move on. Later if you find you can recall what you read differently, based on your experience, consider going back and re-reading it. See if it has become more, or less, brilliant given your additional understanding.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Execution-Discipline-Getting-Things-Do...
What? Why? I think most of us assume people who go on mass shooting sprees have some kind of mental instability.

I see your background is mental health. Instead of just throwing out these cryptic "holier than thou" one-liners, you would do your cause (whatever it is) a lot more justice if you would actually explain your point of view rather than just trying to look like some kind of sage.
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I have an interest in many things, especially privacy. I've used DDG primarily for years (even before the NSA leaks). I do like the idea of improving the product, but as another commenter pointed out, one can have many passions with much more limited time.

While applying for a job doesn't guarantee a return like you said, it's necessary investment so that companies can pick the best fit. This extra requirement, working on their platform to directly improve their service with no compensation before you can even apply, is what I view as bad practice. People can be deeply interested in something without having already directly contributed to it.

Would you view this in the same way if Google started adopting this process?
I'd say not having to worry about 'crafting your own selector engine' and stuff like that leaves you free to spend you creativity on things that are a bit higher on the abstraction ladder. Yes, it makes things that once required creativity more boring, but shouldn't that be cause for excitement that you can now be creative about other things?
We can all claim that "it's elementary" or "basic". Put up or shut up. :)

EDIT: At least link to something to support your rather opaque post.
That's what I thought it was. And even that being the case, it's a little face-palmy. It makes the whole matter seem even sillier than it already is. :|
So like noscript?
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I guess it's a matter of taste as I greatly preferred Business Adventures to the Jobs biography. The Jobs book, while informative, felt like it was missing something. I got a better sense about the guy watching his old NEXT era PBS interviews than I did Isaacson's bio, which too often felt like a recounting of major events shoehorned into what Isaacson decided the theme of Jobs' life was.

I'd still recommend reading BA because the writing style is first rate (and unexpectedly funny). It's also worthwhile for the realization that, due to it's mid century setting, that while the materials and ideas of the business world have changed since the books time, people really haven't, thus business itself really hasn't changed as much as you might otherwise conclude.
Answering in the same spirit: it's just your code... :)
Nice. The 40m map needs a fix on the title though.
What's the Right Diet for You?
I found this on a NASA site about the purse:

"Finally, in a 13 July 2005 e-mail, Neil Armstrong says that the flown Apollo 12 purse " looks just the way I remember it - but it looks cleaner than the one on Apollo 11."

Sneaky guy.

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/A12Flown-Purse.html
Thanks for creating hn.premii.com! About half my use of Hacker News is through your web app. I even wrote a little bookmarklet that turns all links on hn.algolia.com and hckrnews.com into links to your app when I happen to be browsing on mobile! And I'm always happy to find out you introduced a new feature (which I would like to see more regularly, not that I'm complaining!).

Alongside Alien Blue, your app is my most used app on my phone. Your work is very appreciated!
> So, disable it. I don't understand everybody's fascination with voice recognition. I don't find it more convenient at all.

If you have small children, it's incredibly handy. Even with Chrome, it's much easier to sneak in a quick click of a button & then say my query than to try to type it all out.
From the article, last updated in 2011, it looks like he never built the thing.

Here's the correct link for "Simple Digital AC Wattmeter".

http://electronicdesign.com/lighting/simple-digital-ac-wattm...

That's a very neat circuit. It's a very good wattmeter. It measures instantaneous voltage and current, multiplies them in an analog multiplier, integrates the result, and produces a 5V digital pulse for each joule used. So it will measure correct wattage for devices with non-standard power factors, and work with power sources that are not pure sinusoids. Most such devices just measure current and assume voltage.

This is the kind of wattmeter you need to measure power consumption of things like the E-Cat cold fusion device, with its "proprietary waveform" that's probably being mis-measured. That would be a useful bench instrument to have around. For the application proposed, it's unusually complex, but not a bad design. Bob Pease, who used to write an analog column for Electronic Design, would have liked it.

The usual solution today is a Hall-effect current sensor, like this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8882 It only measures current, but it's easy to use and electrically isolated from the high voltage supply. It doesn't require a high-current low-resistance current-sensing resistor (0.002 ohm) in the high voltage side as the one above does.
Yes, because only completely sane people go on shooting rampages.
Huh. It's a rough sketch, from 2011. There's no follow-up I can see.
These aren't even logical arguments. I've presented use cases where voice recognition may be the only feasible way to interact. Is a voice recognition server's security as secure as my banks? Seriously, I'm done arguing with someone who fails to rebut logical arguments and just doubles down on a fairly ignorant position.
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Ask HN: What is the difference between a devops and an infrastructure engineer?
Recently I wrote a blog post about my internship at a startup in Egypt ( http://blog.mbassem.com/2015/02/04/my-journey-with-trustious/ ) that helped me find my passion. I knew the kind of work I love but I can't find a suitable title for it. I think it's either an infrastructure engineer or a devops engineer. So I would love to know the difference between both of them from the requirements and responsibilities point of view. Thank you.
"I would ask the candidate a simple sounding question

"You have a file on your computer with 100,000 unsorted numbers, each number on a new line, Sort them and write the output into a new file.

"Many candidates will immediately start writing a program in Java or Python, if they get it right, then they will start optimizing the algorithm, some of them even start talking about big data and how they need Hadoop to solve the problem.

"I am looking for the candidate who can give me this simple command line solution [...]"

I live at the command line. I spent a year at a gig maintaining 90k lines of bash. And yet I think I stand a substantial chance of failing this test.

Not because I am incapable of trivially producing the line in question (even without recourse to the manual). But because interviewers usually aren't looking for "I would run the code someone else wrote to solve your problem". Of course, in practice, reusing code is great - and that should be the answer where it's applicable! But in an interview asking for a solution to a problem where existing code cannot be the bulk of the solution is likely to be too big a question.
I can't quite tell: is this a complementary or overlapping feature to µMatrix, from the same developer? As an aside, I have noticed much better browser performance with the µ plugins as opposed to things like ABP. Keep up the good work!
The Internet Archive should offer this as a service to help fund their other operations.
The question is: is it more resource-efficient than RequestPolicy?
How much would you pay for such a service?
I don't understand how this is any worse than Firefox supporting (and reluctantly promoting) closed source plugins for years. In fact, this situation will be far better than Flash, Silverlight and all other plugins ever.

Why is supporting EME and limiting closed source crapware to a minimum so bad, while supporting huge closed source, bug ridden application runtimes sort of okay?
Airware (YC W13) Is Hiring: Code and Fly
Airware's commercial (non-military) drone platform extends beyond flight-related hardware and software. Giving drone operators online, realtime, access to data analysis, video, and images is a critical element of transforming drones from flying robots into viable business tools. We have a variety of positions touching every aspect of our system from interacting with hardware to analyzing large datasets.

=== Some relevant engineering positions to HN ===

Frontend SWE (JavaScript) - https://boards.greenhouse.io/airware/jobs/37070

Sr Backend SWE (Java, Golang) - https://boards.greenhouse.io/airware/jobs/19001

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Not to mention they should've just mentioned 4000 BTC/month, instead of matching it with an USD price. Bitcoin is a currency, its USD value is highly volatile.
Let's not forget the likely multi-million dollar hardware investment as well. They have 3,000 ASIC miners (although investing in mining equipment that can be used for mining multiple currencies is far better imo than simply buying Bitcoins).
there is no expectation of privacy with email. Maybe only false expectation.

I'm not sure why this was voted down... not only has the Supreme Court said repeatedly that there's no expectation of privacy since you're trusting the information to a third party... but email isn't even transmitted securely.

If anyone expects their email to be private (and isn't using PGP or something), they have a false expectation of privacy. It's unfortunate that's the case, but that is reality.
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> Now, I'm on the cheap side, but I find AWS expensive compared to other backup services like backblaze. Perhaps it's the backup services that are overly cheap, I don't know, but I'd love to have a cheaper service available for backing up from a NAS (backblaze seems to be pain to setup on a NAS). I'd be OK with major inconvenience on retreaval, as long as it's cheap to backup.

Glacier is $10/month for 1TB. For highly durable long-term storage, that is stupid cheap.
That sounds awesome! Thanks for the help
digital currency = durrency?

I'm stealing that name dibs!
Well, it wasn't required reading back when I was in CS in the 80s, but it was a discussion that we had in class.

I nervously laugh whenever somebody talks about "open source electronic voting"
Ask HN: Mac model market share breakdown?
Does anyone know where I can get some data that perhaps show the % of each mac that make up the mac market (macbook air, pro, iMac). Ideally perhaps by year and model? Thanks
I don;t think there's a well-defined answer. The "capacitance of a cat" is actually the capacitance of the cat and some other condictor. For purposes of calculating the cat's capacitance you can treat the other plate as a grounded sphere at infinity. It doesn't really matter., you'd get pretty much the same answer with a grounded sphere a few feet away. But for figuring out how much energy you can store before you get an arc, it's all about how far away the second conductor is.
I wasn't sure so I played it safe with decades, my sporadic rants are not well-researched.

I think there is a famous fruitcake over a hundred years old.
The telegraph should not be considered a reputable newspaper.
Increase user payments by 20% through better error messages
I think the mistake being made is that people continue to expect the same quality at the same price and ignore inflation. So they complain that the $100 bookshelf they buy in 2015 is nothing like the $100 bookshelf they bought in 1960. Well, thanks to inflation that $100 in 1960 is actually about $800 in 2015, and that $800 bookshelf in 2015 likely is a better quality. In 2015, for $100 you are buying a product that didn't exist in 1960: a bookshelf for $12.50. Technology has raised the quality at the same inflation-adjusted price point, but has also introduced new items at lower price points.
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If you like custom knives, this video is worth watching:

http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_knife_maker
Or when dealing with some of the offline features of HTML5. Those are literally impossible to do without some local state.
Is this some sort of bizarro version of "buy on rumor, sell on news"?
> The replacement system was to be built from scratch

The downfall of many a project. Most just don't accumulate $28m in costs before they fold.
But also that changes as the difficulty factor increases.
I very much like to see this type of pseudo-science on HN. I read the article a few weeks ago and was pretty iffy about it, but I didn't really have a venue to converse about it. The comments that are already here, yours included, have got some cogs turning in my brain and I see some good thought and discussion to be had about the article.
If you are after something rare, exceptionally hand crafted and historical then think about a knife set made in Sheffield, England. Sheffield was the cutler to the world at one point but mass production has destroyed most of that business now.

http://www.steelcitycutlery.com/pocketknife.html
http://www.ferrabyknives.co.uk/hand-forged-4-knife-set.html
precisely. any good ide has an embedded console/shell interface anyway. falling back to the command line is necessary/useful occasionally. but abstaining from visual interfaces for a month seems pointless.
I looked at the implementation of a linked list in the Python book above, there it's done with objects instead of pointers. To be honest, the idea of pointers seems to be more straightforward in this case: one node "points" to the next, while the idea of an object seems a little abstract to me. It took me a moment to understand that an object is just a memory location (pointer) to "something", and it's less clear what that "something" is. It probably took me just as long to see the relationships between a pointer and an array or a struct when I was learning C, but I'm afraid at this point, to understand Python data structures I have to mentally translate them to C data structures.
>Private Photo/Video Backup

I always backup my private anal wards photos to the cloud ... Damn Im old, I just cant understand new generation :(
This is literally a journalist reporting on one blogger who thinks that the whole scientific community is wrong.

Of course the GHCN and Giss are not going to reply to every climate change denying blog...

Edit: I said journalist. I now consider that misleadingly generous. This is a man who says that Darwinists "rest their case on nothing more than blind faith and unexamined a priori assumptions” and more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/ma...
> I nervously laugh whenever somebody talks about "open source electronic voting"

Uh, why? I don't think anyone has seriously asserted that open source voting systems would be foolproof. On the other hand, we have actual cases where open source voting systems would have at least made serious flaws public before they were used for voting.

Besides, when you're talking "Trusting Trust", you have to worry just as much about the hardware you're voting on. Who designed and built that?

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Hey, I find your django dev projects awesome and want to contact you , but can't find any email-id on careers page.
Docker doesn't wrap LXC any more; they re-implemented that stuff in libcontainer. Well, the code to call LXC is in there somewhere as a backwards-compatibility option, but you won't be using it unless you really try.
Hey Panagiotis!

To be clear, I don't wish anyone this kind of suffering! At the same time, all you mention seem to be very similar to what the Latvians went through in 2009.

I do see the difference of the enormous Greek state debt after years of structural overspending by the Greek government. Latvia simply had almost non-existing debt before it went through the 2008-2009 economic crisis.

You say "Also note that among the Greek population there's a feeling that Brussels and Germany is heavily corrupted." The EU structures seem to be intact, if serving other (corporate?) interests than you and I would like. Greek structures seem to be crumbling under corruption much more.

I'm genuinely interested in how you would ideally see Greece regain solvability.

Kind regards,

Mark

P.S. In the case of Latvia, eurozone was not an option. It was a requirement of joining the EU. Will that be good or bad in the long run? They lost a bit of economic flexibility (no independent currency floating possible), but they still have an internal devaluation as an option. They used that once. Basicly, lower wages by 20% by decree and make local products cheaper that way. Socially quite insensitive instrument. On the other hand, jobs are plenty again here...
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