skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Policeman is like RequestPolicy, only much better (and it imports RequestPolicy's rules). I haven't tried uBlock/uMatrix yet, but if you like RequestPolicy do give Policeman a try.
Report Sees Weak Security in Cars’ Wireless Systems
Now we're on to something...
>I’d like to imagine that most people, after watching a person join pullers to sliders for a couple minutes, will be quite alright to suffer the tiny bump on the tip of their zipper to save another human the fate of having to manually align pullers into sliders for 8 hours a day.

Leaving him in the street with no job...

The worker is happy that the designer don't like the "tabs". And yes, it is more expensive, because the required manual labor.

In any case, you'll be not making him "a favor" by automatizing his job.

I'm pro-automatization, but don't paint it as "a favor" for the ones which will be left without job...
So how exactly do you steal bitcoin out of a password protected wallet, when I have never written the password anywhere, it is "reasonably secure" (no dictionary, mixed notation, 16+ characters) and it is encrypted AES-256, which has not been cracked yet? I'm not talking about online wallets which are just as untrustworthy as banks unless they FOSS their implementation, and even then you are trusting their system administration, especially if they keep backups of your password and thus have access to the contents on their end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAKS_%28spacecraft%29 I hope they revive this idea (Flies fine in KSP, for what it's worth).

Horizontal shuttle launch from a Mriya, using the same principle as a Pegasus rocket.
Wikipedia says the range at maximum load is 2500 miles, so if that's correct, endurance must be significantly longer given that it doesn't go supersonic.
HN is very fad-oriented.
That's really cool! Bookmarked.
I love how most of my comments that convey the message "Sometimes you have to push back when you are pushed" or "sometimes the job is more important than people's egos" get downvoted.
You're under the impression that a) these projects are meant to succeed, and b) merit in developing the solutions is important in the selection.

As far as the people who are actually in charge are concerned, the important outcome is to spend (thus justify) their budget, and to be seen to take action.

As for selection, it's about shmoozing the right people, who you know, and navigating labyrinthine government conditions that have more to do with bureaucratic ass-covering and factory production schedules than software.
IT Conversations had a good talk on large scale databases and why they fail. ($170 million FBI database)

http://cdn.itconversations.com/ITC.IEEE-FBISoftware-2006.06....

TL;DL No one actually sat down and specifically told the contractors what was needed because they didn't bother to even work it out for themselves.

So the contractors could get away with what they wanted.
Someone PMed me to do a survery, here's the Google Forms link:

http://goo.gl/forms/pkloshXGmq
Guide to Protection Against a Data Breach
I haven't before, but I just might now.
It was a real pain for me to add those machines that are there now, I did it all manually by checking how far parts were from the top left of the image. I probably could have came up with a way to add parts to an image by clicking on it... oh well.
"individually-owned “goods” (children) are brought under national ownership, and returns from children flow to the country as a whole (through tax-based entitlement programs), rather than individually to their previous “owners.”"

Reminds me of 1984 where children are educated by the government to betray their parents where necessary.

1984 was mistaken, parents then wouldn't choose to have children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protectio...
You can do that with US Dollars. It's more complicated with Chinese Yuan.
"only two of the nation’s eighteen state or local railways, Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road, operate on a third-rail system powered by overhead lines"

For anybody else who was confused by this: the author is (I think) trying to say that Metro-North has some lines equipped with both third rail and overhead wires. Although the accident occurred because of a crash at a level crossing, and had nothing to do with electrification per se.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-North_Railroad#Electric_...
As a parent who studied economics, I files these (and there are a lot of them) "analyses" under "technically correct, but missed the point". There's a bit in there that may describe why we have less children beyond the old "less of them die" chestnut, but it utterly fails to address why we do have children in the modern first world. That answer isn't based in economics.
> My question is, is there a real use-case for Turing-completeness inside a C++ compiler?

That's a weird question because it seems to imply that "turing completeness" was a design goal of C++ templates. Afaik that's not the case, it's just an emergent feature of a powerful meta programming system. Also, turing-completeness doesn't mean much. It just means that there is some transformation that allows to general purpose programs to be written. It does not mean however, that it's practical, performant, or advisable. Things that are turing-complete include:

* Apache mod_rewrite
* The Scala type system
* Sendmail configuration
* Magic the Gathering

So, being turing-complete really is more of an interesting factoid, not actually a major achievement with any consequences for "real life".

See: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
Also semi professional forging of paper documents still goes on. See Paul Ceglia vs Facebook for an entertaining example.

eg http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebooks-ma...
CrunchBang is dead
So maybe not so cutting edge, but that's ok.

Yes, schools have to sign up to Clever. I'm sure many people develop math, science and english applications, but probably very few develop wood shop applications.
Well, RMS shot his own foot with the GPLv3. While the GPLv2 is making its way in corporations, the GPLv3 is generally a show-stopper in itself, even if the licensed software is the best.
Second beta of Elementary OS Freya is here
Does uBlock provide any way to write shims/surrogates? Sites often break because they just can't deal with certain JS libraries being missing, but there are many cases where it looks like just providing a stub implementation would be enough.
When I moved to the west coast one of the first things I did was go to an AllPowerLabs open house! They have these very regularly... if you're interested in this sort of thing you should drop in.

Oldie, but a goodie. The gasifier powered honda --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyazgRBtq8
I take that as a compliment.
"One of my least favorite aspects of learning computer science in college was how distanced the theory was from real-world applications."

It sounds like you want to want a vocational school. CS isn't there for you to learn how to make an app. It's about theory, which takes more time to master.

I still use the theory I learned in CS (10 years ago) to develop software today.
I've read that more than half of pregnancies in the US are unintended. That indicates that the reason more than half the kids are born are because of sexual urges("Duh!"). I'm guessing the less than half group have various reasons. But this article is about why we now have less, so I'm not sure it failed to address why some do. It just didn't address it.
Speaking as someone who made the switch from MySQL to Postgres... I'm just happy that I can now trust subqueries and schema updates to not blow up my database. And I don't know how I got by without lateral joins and hstore.
Is Social Security Really a Ponzi Scheme?
I can't count now the number of pages I've visited that return nothing but a blank screen with scripting disabled. I've become used to it recently, but it's often for sites without much going on. It's a little ridiculous.
> it would be interesting to learn what lead to over 400,000 lines of CSS in over 2000 files for an actually not that complex site in the first place

This is so common. Lot of time, they use CSS to change the design of the module, which is how it should be. But when they revert the look of the module, instead of deleting CSS, they add new rules to overwrite existing CSS. Which leads to specificity fight and !important.

At my previous job, site was rendering on server. It was old, and we wanted to redesign it. I wanted to keep rendering on the server. CTO and VP wanted to build Angular site because everyone is moving to Angular and its easy to find Angular developers. Company's 30+% of new visitors comes through SEO.
Peter Thiel has replaced one flawed institution with another. College works mostly because it gives you prestige and connections. Thiel's fellowships work on the same level. If you want to skip college and start a business, then do it.
vs 747 vv A380

http://www.articlesextra.com/main-fotos/antonov-graph.jpg

More stats:

http://planes.findthebest.com/compare/242-247/Airbus-A380-80...

My take-away: A380 significantly more impressive plane. It has a max take-off weight that's 90% of the AN-225, but is a similar size, and much much cheaper to fly, with a significantly better range.
Don't know. I expected some insights into how to build and run a business, how to deal with different forces that pull and push on you and your business, how to deal with your psychology when doing all of this, how to understand finance, .... I don't know, I know that I didn't expect to see what I saw in this book.
I'm upvoting this because the article is interesting, but the title is a bit off.

The given title (which is the title of the blog post) is somewhat misleading. The person knew basic CS and had had two semesters in college of it, but felt they learned at a faster pace in Hack Reactor.

Nor does this necessarily show that college is "broken" (a subject certainly worthy of consideration and debate) though it does make it clear that the blogger seems to feel this works better for them, and suggest some interesting ways of teaching. Giving people a problem before giving them the classic solution, and having them work out the naive approach themselves has much to suggest itself. In interviews and work, you don't necessarily know the best solution, or even what the program is. This may give people a better sense of the problem space for programming.
Thst's rather a pointless comparison - the AN-225 is a MUCH more capable aircraft.

http://www.aviationexplorer.com/Antonov_An-225/an-225.jpg

When dealing with air cargo dimensions are more important usually than weight. The -225 routinely carries things like railway cars and wind turbine blades. No way you could even think of loading those on a hypothetical A380 cargo version - you need to engineer from the outset for a pivoting nose and/or full size rear ramp. The -225 has both.
Sorry, here's an errata: The letter 弗 is commonly used in Korea and Japan. In China, the U.S. dollar is usually written as 美元 ("American yuan", but since both the dollar and the yuan derive from the thaler as the article says, it can mean "American thaler" as well).
The problem with web development isn't that there is a resurgence of bad development practices. It's that the average web developer isn't as skilled as what they need to be.

The average U.S. worker spends 4.6 years in a given career, and yet it takes ~5 years to master a framework. The average computer science grad earns much more than a web developer, so the skill set required for proper development is often lacking. Add into the mix cheap offshore labour, poorly made "out of the box" web packages aimed at medium-small business, and inexperienced "geeks" who build poor websites on the cheap.

Given the skill set required for professional level web development is on par with software development, it's no surprise the role isn't getting the skilled people the career requires.
That could be all the goal is (though this is speculation). Thiel has said on a few occasions that one thing he particularly dislikes about universities is their politics: he perceives them as an obstacle to libertarianism, since in his view they promote left-wing politics. If he can replace a university with something similar, but with different politics, that could achieve his aims, if his aims are in large part political.
Stanford CS231n – Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Do you also prefer footnotes and sidebars inline when reading articles?

No. I prefer them at the bottom (that's why they're called footnote) and with a tooltip for convenience.

I don't see how that relates to the idiotic idea of scattering comments/code over two wide columns.
"Tank capacity constitutes 365 tons. Fuel is held in 13 wing integral tanks. The aircraft can keep on flying for 18 hours and cover the distance of more than 15 000 km."
The An-225 first flew in 1988 while the first A380 in 2005. It's reasonable to assume the A380 benefited signifcantly from material advances the An-225 didn't have.
I've started giving a 15% discount for work that will end up under a free software/open source license, and it seems pretty effective. 50% sounds extreme, but maybe that's what it takes with some clients.
Your first link doesn't work. "Error : You don't have permission to access /main-fotos/antonov-graph.jpg on this server."

If A380 is cheaper, why Airbus don't product a freight version of A380? Perhaps a comparison with Airbus Beluga/Boeing Dreamlifter with An-225 would be more interesting.
I don't see how quantum mechanics has something to do with: "lasers, microprocessors and iPhones"
Seems to be things based more on classical physics...

QM maybe means D-wave computers...
Jai Bhavnani Representing 21st Century Kids
You can use writable CTEs as a kludge for an upsert depending on your use case.
Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail
Both MySQL and SQLite's implementations work satisfactorily, so I tend to think that PostgreSQL's reluctance is the perfect being the enemy of good.

It's a pattern that shows up often when you're mirroring data from a third-party, so it's a shame that the programmer has to do conflict handling for an operation that the database could easily do atomically.
Huh. Just yesterday I tried installing it (there was something wrong with the iso).

What are some other distros that come with Openbox out of the, err, box? Preferably lightweight distros.
Reliable Virtual Assistants from around the world – free
Clang-based autocompletion for Atom
Could you please elaborate on "pretty terrifying".
Herding microservices for integration testing with Go
Optimizing Ag: Special-casing File Extensions
Ask HN: I want to visit cool robot companies in Portland
Hi everyone. I'm from New Zealand + Austria. I'm a PhD student in HRI (Human-Robot-Interaction) and I'll attend the Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) Conference in Portland at the beginning of March. I thought I could use this great opportunity to visit cool robotics companies (Best Social Robotics and IoT). Please let me know if you have any cool startups worth visiting.

- Here you can find a bit more about me. If needed ;) http://muhkuh.me
- And if you want to come to the conference and visit me (My project is called Fidgebot). Here you can find my session time/link: http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2015/program-2/abstracts-poster-session-iii/
- I worked on Fidgebot while doing an intership at Microsoft Research http://blog.fuselabs.org/post/97308195741/fidgebot-robot-experience
Making a new “person”—on which the state has claims, but you do not, and toward whom you have (class-dependent) obligations—is a much less economically attractive proposition than making a new slave.

I'm surprised Perry doesn't reference Bryan Caplan's Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. His argument is book-length and thus not easily summarized, but he observes that:

a) Contemporary Western middle- and upper-middle-class people obsess way too much over costly child interventions that may not do much;

b) Because of a, kids can be less work than is commonly assumed in the media;

c) Parents actually have less influence on their kids, at least according to the data that he (voluminously) cites, and

d) Parents underestimate the amount of pleasure kids can be, especially over longer time horizons.
Did you read the article? He's not overthinking it, that's what the article is about.
Do you know if it is compatible to run 2 platform simultaneously? Has there being cases that has happened?
The movie is disturbing but IMO worth it. Think of it as middle ages youtube footage.
Indian Startup 3D-ing Unveils the Most Affordable 3D Printer for Just $325
The book appears to me to be the contents of use-the-index-luke.com. My friends impulsed bought it when I told him I was planning on buying it after confirming that it had more content than the website but after skimming the table of contents it doesn't appear to have anything more than the website.

Still, its good to support Markus' effort and if you prefer having a PDF rather than going to the website, just buy it. It's like $15.
They should make it 100% free for students. Once they graduate and enter the workforce they will recommend this tool to employers.
The problem with bountysource is that the bounties are quite low for the amount of work involved. Working a week consulting on the customization of open source software for a business will usually net far more than the largest bounty on there. (And those large bounties are significant, highly-specialized tasks.)

I think the bounty model could work well, but on all the projects I've seen it implemented on, it acted more like a tip mechanism for the core team than a way to attract professional freelancers to contribute, because of the low value of the bounties.
> yet it takes ~5 years to master a framework

Are we talking about web frameworks? Because it sure doesn't take 5 years to master most web frameworks.
Also does any one know if these crowd-funding platform allow us to gain access to the funders' contact info even if we don't reach our goal?
Agree, not sure why you were downvoted. EMP is photons. They were already considering the non visible spectrum when talking UV. There's a real prejudice and ignorance regarding visible light versus the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
ah good to know.
Why are people trying to make comments disappear? They are there for a reason. I agree with what moe is saying, though not moe's tone.
Institution? I don't think you can really call a small handful of unique individuals winning a contest an 'institution'.

I personally agree with the political statement being made, but regardless of our opinions on the political motivations, I think you would be hard press to find someone that thinks this is a suggestion we should stop sending kids to college and instead throw money at them and tell them to help the world.
Inflation is extremely harmful in the long term. Deflation is harmful in the short term. When you get a deflationary spiral, the shock to the economic system is sharp and sudden, and causes political/social unrest, economic upheaval, capital flight and sometimes horrendous wars.

Inflation on the other hand, in the long term, guarantees bifurcation of rich and poor (wealth disparity). The reason for this is fairly simple. The poor spend between 100 and 110 percent of their disposable income, and they spend it on consumption. The rich, on the other hand, invest at least 10 percent of their disposable income in some kind of asset, either fixed assets or financial assets. Assets can then be used as collateral against loans which are used to purchase more assets. Inflation erodes the real value of the loan i.e. the nominal principal of the loan does not inflate, but it's real value deflates with inflation. Thus, inflation is a virtuous circle of asset ownership, which gives access to credit, which both increases assets owned, and whose liability decreases with inflation.

To put it another way, never ending inflation is a transfer mechanism of wealth from the poor to the rich. Once the poor realise this, they demand a political solution. The political solution inevitably involves increasing taxes on the middle class (the rich don't pay taxes), to pay for social welfare programs (i.e. free money). In this way, inflation not only transfers wealth from the poor to the rich, it also indirectly destroys the middle class by crushing them with a punitive tax burden to placate the poor.
He did a lot of stupid things when he was younger. It doesn't discredit his current work.
I believe it's free for everyone.

> RemObjects Silver is absolutely free of charge to use, both during the current beta period, and once we release the shipping version.
The Samsung TVs do perform voice recognition through the mic on the TV as well as on the remote (well, at least mine, which is a couple years old, does). Even if you have the voice recognition setting turned off, the one on the remote still works by pressing the button.

The non-remote one does use a trigger word ("hi tv" by default) and it definitely does that processing locally (I know because i disconnected my TV from the internet and tried it). Basic commands ("channel up" etc) also worked. I don't know what else to try to figure out when it goes out to the internet. I'd also add that the camera/microphone have a very visible hardware off (which I keep off, because life is too much like 1984 already).

Again, this is a 2013 model.
I think I dislike this blog post for many reasons, if nothing else because this guy's understanding of the history of physics seems a little off. Einstein discovered the photoelectric effect in 1905, which did in some ways continue the experiments that would pave the way for modern quantum theory, but was really more known for special and general relativity, which still are being reconciled with quantum theory. To cast Einstein as someone who "couldn't adapt" to the consequences of his earlier works or who was "cast into obscurity" after the 1930's seems ignorant at best. While the Copenhagen interpretation seems to be the prevailing view in academia now, to belittle Einstein as almost a luddite in the face of the quantum revolution seems to under estimate how strange and questionable "spooky action at a distance" was at the time, especially in the face of thought experiments such as the EPR paradox.

I also find the comparison of the quantum revolution in physics to the flash in the pan shiny apps that seem to come and go every couple of years also very questionable. To compare Facebook "as a platform" to the gravity of quantum mechanics seems rather insulting to the Physicists of the early 20th century.
Wow there's a band of savages wielding heavy down voting hammers.
Do we have to assume a spherical cat?
He doesn't know what he's on about, but he likes MySQL.

You're putting words in my mouth that I didn't say. I don't like MySQL. I prefer PostgreSQL. And I have had a few rough times optimizing some queries in PostgreSQL, whereas I've had fewer such bad times with MySQL, despite using it more often. It's anecdata. Take it for what it's worth.

Time sinks in MySQL have come more from its crappy defaults, from its bizarre error handling (or lack thereof) in bulk imports, and most recently, a regression caused by a null pointer in the warning routine.

If I were working on my own project, I'd probably go with PostgreSQL and figure out the replication story. But I'm not. I do use PostrgeSQL on my personal projects.

(If there was one feature I'd add to PostgreSQL, it would be some means of temporarily and selectively disabling referential integrity. Not deferring it, not removing and readding foreign keys, just disabling. The app I work on does regular 10k-1M+ row bulk inserts, usually into a new table every time (10s of thousands of tables), but sometimes appending to an already 100M+ row table. It would be nice to have referential integrity outside of the bulk inserts, but not pay the cost on bulk insert.)
Really cool. I like the idea a lot.
Pronouns matter when psyching yourself up