skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're private, but the amount of federal funds that filter through them is staggering, in federally backed students alone.
Believe me, you don't need to read his book to simply participate in commerce. Without a doubt, this book was one of the most moving memoirs I've ever read. Very highly recommended. The bonus is that he's an incredible writer.
Do you mean PAL, not APL? (PAL's initial implementation was in Lisp, FWIW.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_%28computer_programming...

My (probably bad) knowledge of history is that the Lisps didn't do lexical scoping particularly well until Scheme. (Hopefully I don't have a false sense of "closures" vs. "lexical scoping".)
You can virtualize a PC (or replicate the filesystem like Dropbox), but it is harder to virtualize a distributed system like Facebook's or Google's. And most mobile platforms are DoA without their vendor signing and cloud services.

It's always been hard to migrate out of social systems--convincing a well-connected user of a photo service to move away from the place where they've accumulated comments and tags is really hard. That metadata is not portable because identity is not yet portable, and it's what we're spending time on (lots more time than we spend making spreadsheets).

I think we might manage to keep "JPG as file" alive for 30-50 years, but there is lots more to manage.
Can it be used as a reliable, searchable signature for a movie?
I wonder if my complaining will head off the 8 comments it would take to get back to zero (so to speak).

I suppose the thing to do is create a culture here of saying "If you are going to complain that the headline is uninformative, please also provide the information you think it is missing."
I type on a mechanical, though non-ergonomic keyboard, and like it quite a lot. Specifically a DAS Keyboard Ultimate with Cherry Blue switches. I added o-rings to quiet the report of the click a bit. I have not had tying discomfort in a couple of years since switching to Dvorak layout and going with a mechanical keyboard.

That said. I am not an RSI expert, and can only say anecdotally what I have personally come to like.

I know at least a couple of developers who swear by the Kenisis Advantage - http://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-KB500USB-BLK-Advantage-Contour.... It's a bit pricey, but is apparently a true ergonomic option.

For a straight up nice mechanical with o-rings already installed, the Code Keyboard from WASD is a nice option - see http://codekeyboards.com/.
I actually think this is a great idea. While it is true they likely wouldn't be able to find a job in the industry with this training, I am sure some of them will come out with enough skill to do things like bid on freelance projects on elance.com.

It really doesn't take a lot of projects to make equivalent and greater money then the type of minimum wage or manual labor jobs many ex-cons would end up working instead (or even petty crime).
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43% (3,687) I like big versions, and I cannot lie
57% (4,822) v4.0, 'cause I get confused easily
Recalling the early Internet days and what they mean today
I can't say that I hate it but I don't really like iTunes.
The problem for me is it is too slow, has too much features and always come out with annoying popups such as "iPad contains diagnostic information...", "A new iPhone software version... " and "Sign into the iTunes store".
I quit using it as a music player some months ago: now I use mpd (music player daemon) with ncmpcpp (a client) and iTunes to only sync/backup my iPad. mpd is great for me: you control it with the client you like, it loads his music database from a directory, you make playlists and just listen.
90 what? Bananas? Watts? Degrees? Never ever publish chart without axis descriptions. Not even as demo.
(Or maybe I'm just grumpy)
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Not knowing much about the current standard for "best secure voice communication", could you (or someone) shed a little light on the best Skype alternative for the average in-the-field news reporter? I'm not a reporter- I'm just curious.
So why bother putting out that free content in the first place?

In the scheme of things adding captions costs very little and provides benefits to many people, not just those with a hearing impairment.

The cost of producing and hosting the material is very much greater than the small cost of providing captions.
I wanted to support the big picture idea of your comment about packet loss not being inherently bad. Too many strategies are based on the principle that every packet is precious rather than total system goodput. Indeed TCP congestion control is really premised on loss happening - it keeps inching up the sending rate until a loss is induced and then it backs off a bit.

OTOH, TCP really performs poorly in the face of significant levels of loss. So high levels of loss specifically in HTTP really are a bad sign, at least as currently constructed.

Also worth being conerned with: losses that occur late in the path waste a lot of resources getting to that point that could instead be used by other streams sharing only part of the path. (e.g. If a stream from NYC to LAX experiences losses in SFO it is wasting bandwidth that could be used on someone else's PHI to Denver stream). A packet switched network has to be sensitive to total system goodput, not just that of one stream.
There's also http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/, which is a bit more active.
I set up my house such that when I unlock the front door using my code, the downstairs lights come on if it's after sundown. I also have a camera capture the first few minutes of the door changing state. I get alerts if the door is opened outside of normal away hours (8-4 on weekdays). I also have a vacation mode that will control various lights in the house to simulate occupancy. I also set up a nightlight mode that will detect motion after dark and turn lights on and off as you pass through the house. This was all done with off-the-shelf components and minimal Lua scripting. Admittedly not life-changing, but more useful than moving blinds up and down!
>but I can't open pictures I took with my digital camera 10 years ago,because the CDs I burnt them to are unreadable.

We still had jpegs 10 years ago. All of my digital pics from 2005/6/7 till now are still on multiple hard drives and multiple systems. Each time I get a new computer I transfer them over.

Why are they unreadable? It sounds like you put them on a proprietary format or some obsolete picture software you used to burn them on.

I think its absurd that you are paying for picture storage and think its your only option. Amazon prime customers can upload pics for free now [1]. Why not use one of the free ones like Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive etc...

[1]https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/primephotos
Maybe they could get work via odesk or a similar site?
I use poker 2 with blue switches and code keyboard with green switches. Amazing experience. Love it.
There are potential security applications for things like that. For instance, a randomized on-off pattern for lights in your house to help throw off casual thieves. Or, tying the system to the burglar alarm so that all the lights come on and the blinds open when the alarm goes off in order to bring more unwanted attention to the thieves.

As others have mentioned, there is also the light-sensitive timer use case.
Hi thanks for creating Shumway, will it replace flash for all video content or what is the goal of the Shumway project?
Yes. Period. I have two, one each for work and office. Each of my colleague bought one over the past few months.

Our favorite is Poker II.
Also this for more bling:

http://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards

There is science in there also.
I'd suggest /r/mechanicalkeyboards too. I was looking to buy one recently and the information really came in handy.
Kathy Sierra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra ) had the same problem.

There are various industries where this happens (heck, I've seen it happen in local mom and pop shops). I think it is the intersection of Molyneux celebrity status and being vocal on the internet and a high number of internet users (gamers). You probably have the same stuff happening with actors/musicians, but they usually not around blogging and raising funds through kickstarter, so while they are more public in a sense, they are more distant from the end customers on the internet. Also, they have assistants that filter that crap, forward it to the police, etc. Molyneux probably has his email somewhere public where he gets the threats directly.
DRM also plays a role in this. Obsolete DRM techniques whose algorithms have long been forgotten will make it difficult to archive data protected by DRM onto new storage mediums.
Mac users have to go through iTunes sync just as Windows users :) So, it sucks on Mac but just not as slow as it is on Win.
Redphone

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...
All languages in the target society, I guess. If e.g. Harvard doesn't have much presence in Swahili-speaking societies, there's not much damage in not having the video translated to Swahili. But if you are giving an advantage to some members of a society over others, you're treating the others as second-class citizens. They might even feel separated, because they can't participate in something that everyone else has access to.
yep hate it! one of the worst user experiences found in any app. Cant imagine how Apple UX designers ever figured that this would be a good design.
It's important to remember that it's ok to have an idea and not act on it. You will have way more ideas than you can ever hope to have time for - what's important is that your mind is free to focus on whatever you choose to work on without being distracted.

What has helped me in the last year is to keep writing ideas down but be very selective on those I will work on properly. If I spent a week of free time on every current idea I have so far - that would add up to the next 5 years of my life. It's not sustainable. What I want is to just see some of my ideas come to life.

Also if you're not in the habit of launching products and tools going from 0 > startup is a huge task.

Why not commit 1 weekend to 1 tiny, achievable project (Fri eve to Sunday eve) see how far you can get when constrained by a deadline. No matter how basic, buggy, janky or simple it is - you have to show people on Sunday night & wake up to the response on Monday. You will end up with a project that has seen the light of day and then you can decide if it's worth continuing.
AWESOME. I didn't know that, but it makes sense and is very unixy.
My employer wouldn't go for it, so I sprung for a mechanical keyboard out of pocket. I got an IBM M12, which is a variant of the Model M clicky keyboard with a Trackpoint built in. It looks and works like it's brand new.

Not thrilled with the trackpoint, the sensitivity is too low for a modern hi-res display. If I turn the OS-level mouse speed way up, the trackpoint works OK but the other mouse moves way too fast. I'd love one of the modern-built clicky keyboards with the built-in trackpoint, but I can't find them. Thinking about getting a gaming mouse that can have its DPI turned way down.

Or I could learn vim or emacs and forget about the mouse entirely...
I have Cooler Master Storm Rapid I mechanical backlit keyboard. It's pretty compact as it doesn't have numerical keyboard. It has nice light effects as it pretty configurable. I am not really impressed with this keyboard - I make a lot typing mistakes, it's very sensitive. For comparison, I can type faster and with fewer typing mistakes on Lenovo e325 laptop keyboard. It costs about 100euro in my country.

I don't have experience with other mechanical keyboards, so i would appreciate if someone can compare it to other mechanical keyboards.
this app was in Top 3 on product hunt http://www.producthunt.com/posts/waltr and they say it can transfer any movie or music file to your iPhone w/o iTunes
Python Braille Translator realisations overview
> the general idea of English-like programming is far from new

Indeed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
The NSA recommends ZRTP.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s...
It's how I learned to code. You depend on good documentation much more - though offline documentation used to be better, these days you're lucky if you get more than the source.

It also makes you more independent when debugging issues no-one else online has seen. You become unafraid of digging into the next level down to find out what's going on.
How infosec hiring lost its way
If you have something that works for you, you may just want to stick with it. That being said, I've tried a bunch of mechanical keyboards and have been using a Kinesis Advantage for about five years: http://jakeseliger.com/2011/07/17/further-thoughts-on-the-ki... and am in fact typing on one now.

Perhaps the best recommendation I can give is simple: I'd never go back if I could avoid going back.
"Vint Cerf is promoting an idea to preserve every piece of software and hardware so that it never becomes obsolete - just like what happens in a museum - but in digital form, in servers in the cloud."

Why not regular servers?
From fairly early in the article:
"Harvard expected the Justice Department to propose rules this year “to provide much-needed guidance in this area,” and that the university would follow whatever rules were adopted."
I see a lot of comments amounting to saying that contemporary digital content isn't worth much, and its loss wouldn't be a big hardship. This isn't the only kind of digital content though. What I am worried about is older, pre-digital matter which is thrown out because digital copies now exist (often crappy scans of marked-up, faded pages, but that's another rant.) When the digital copies disappear, we will no longer have the durable pre-digital copies to revert to.
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I like the MS Sculpt (the newer sexier ms natural).

If you look up 'sculpt for business' ($60) you can get it without a gross mouse bundled in.
To get a sense of how much worse it was prior to automated trading, Google: [odd eighths scandal].
I already use my card for everything, I haven't used cash in quite some time (Even use Venmo to share paying for pizza and the like). I guess I'm vastly underestimating the amount of cash still being used. Because of that my original statement may be flawed
It's not BS and you've laid out why. There are games and software on 5.25 and 3.5 disks that we can't access now. Even if we could, the software was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore and we've have to write other software to adapt them to our machines now. This isn't a problem that is just going to go away, formats and OSes and hardware will come and go as our technology needs and abilities change.
I think it could be, but I would also argue that it would be pretty expensive to scan and compare against a database.
The point is that the description/emulation would need to be a virtual machine, so it can be transported and duplicated, as long as you have the basic system to run it on. Otherwise the problem is just as bad when those "regular servers" die.
It is currently 2015 ;)
Is this not the modern version of a government monitoring library records, and people's reading history?

http://www.globalissues.org/article/409/us-librarians-see-bi...

http://www.ala.org/offices/oif/ifissues/fbiyourlibrary
Meta: I know this is the Internet, and we're all supposed to complain all of the time. And I am aware of HN's submission guidelines. But do we really need to refer to him as Google's Vint Cerf? The guy is famous in our community. It's not like he needs another adjective, and it's not like Google owns him. How about just his name? I find this phraseology a bit disconcerting.
I've been to a couple of these museums as well. What makes them fun to go to are:

- you may touch everything, often including things inside the computers itself

- the people working there (or, as is often the case, the one guy working there) is knowledgeable, willing to talk about it in depth, cares, and you can have a real conversation with them.

- there's a lot of surprising hardware around I had no idea existed (from failed computer companies, to specialized I/O of decades past, to special-purpose hardware)

You cannot get the same full experience with most regular museums, as then you have to follow their narrative instead of following your curiosity.

On the other hand, these museums are often not much more than an erudite collection of historical artifacts they got their hands on. To preserve is to select with a plan, not just collect everything.
I never understand why linux distributions download updates so often. I'd prefer something monthly at the most.

I can't believe there are so many critical security update that much often...
Caffeine + Theanine together have a synergistic effect - I do 150mg caffeine pill + 300mg theanine pill as soon as I wake up - can't recommend highly enough :)

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/138/8/1572S.full
I think the law applies to new videos that are created for distribution online. I don't think it applies to videos created before the ADA was passed that are put online now. Or a private conversation that was published.
This is a very clever way to pitch cloud technology to the older generation that simply don't understand the benefits.

By essentially saying that, if you don't use cloud technology your precious photos and documents might be unaccessible in years to come.
Product is good. Bug-> it asked me the question I posted. When are you trying on PH?
Is Google making the web stupid?
Setting up a Tor hidden service with Nginx
You mean like this: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/10/police-several-...
This is already an issue in many areas, perhaps most troubling with regards to scientific data (e.g. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6018/694.short)
CockroachDB is promising.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

Inspired by Google Spanner.
The Containerization of Functions
The iPod effect: how near limitless storage made content worthless
A lot of this is bad technology choice. The new hipster smart bulbs are a doomed technology, they were a bad idea from the start. Try INSTEON, buddy.
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> these days you're lucky if you get more than the source.

We don't need no docstrings, the source should be self documenting!

/s
To address pinky pain (based solely on my own experience, this is not ergonomic or medical advice), yes. In my experience, the most painful thing about typing for my fingers is the impact from bottoming out the keys while typing (which is required to activate the membrane switches found in most inexpensive keyboards). You'll want to learn how to type without bottoming out the keys (or pick up some o-rings to soften the landing), but absolutely yes.

I would recommend the Cherry MX Brown switches: they require less effort to push down than other switches, but still offer some tactile feedback when they're activated. If you're comfortable relying on muscle memory instead of tactile feedback, then the red switches will be a real joy to use. Blues are nice, but in your typical office situation they are almost universally reviled.

One advantage of going for reds - there are a number of game peripheral manufacturers which offer keyboards based on the Cherry MX Red.
50k hours is probably ambitious for some, but not too far off the mark. The Achilles' heel here is the capacitors, they are the weakest link. 10k hours is easy, and they should never fail before that absent some design or manufacturer defect, or atypically high ambient temperatures.

>I've had several expensive (Phillips/GE) LED bulbs fail after a year of sparse usage.

You have an electrical problem in your home. Perhaps a poor connection on the neutral leg of the circuit. It is even potentially unsafe, as in a possible arcing condition.
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"Mark Zuckerberg and Marissa Mayer - chief executives of Facebook and Yahoo, respectively - and Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt all declined invitations."

Awesome. I wish the others would have done the same.
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I use them and love them.

I was experiencing finger and wrist pain from typing and switched to a mechanical keyboard, which seems to have stopped the pain. Note that I also went to a tenkeyless layout in order to prevent a lot of motion when I move my right hand to use the mouse.

You'll want to do some research into switches, as not all mechanical keyboards are alike. The most popular variants are probably Cherry MX blues and browns. I prefer the clicky feel of the blues, but they are really loud.
If you can only do a little bit of good, you should do it for the underprivileged position and not for people who are already privileged.
Here is a list: https://prism-break.org/en/all/#instant-messaging
I have also. DSP code in an embedded environment.
I somehow doubt it's a big issue. Do you know many DRM's that haven't been cracked in a matter of days/weeks after the release?
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This seems wrong. Make sure you're following the guides in their documentation (run one locust slave instance per core). But that aside, 200 RPS is way too low for a locust instance. I use locust for loads 100k+ rps, if 200rps per host were my limit I wouldn't be using locust.
How do you defend that attitude to all the deaf people out there who want to know what you put in your video and can't?
I use a Kinesis (https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage-for-pc-mac/), which is a mechanical keyboard with an ergonomic layout. It saved my wrists while writing my master's thesis. I use an MS 4k for a while, but the Kinesis is lightyears ahead in terms of comfort.

It takes about a week to learn to type on it, as the columnar layout is very different, and I had to learn to retype some characters (like x, c, and v). It's easy to switch back and forth between typical keyboards and the kinesis, so nothing's lost in the learning.
The problem is the consumer has expectations. If you tell them they're getting X and you give them Y and Y is demonstrably of lesser value than X they're going to be pissed off. He just over promises and under delivers.

Now with that said of course he doesn't deserve threats, and I agree that gamers tend to be quite the vicious bunch. It's pathetic on their part. I still bought Godus, I was disappointed by it and believe Molyneux deserves criticism for once again delivering something that's not what was promised but I don't understand how/why people go to such extremes.
> If Linux used semantic versioning we'd be up to at least version 200.0 by now.

So what? 200 makes sense for software as old and consistently maintained as the Linux kernel. What is with the need of people to keep version numbers low?
I highly recommend that documentary to anyone with any interest in journalism.
I prefer the Kinesis Freestyle over mechanical keyboards. The Kinesis has low-force key switches, so overall fatigue is lower. I also use the Ascent bracket from the same company, which gives me a split, vertical keyboard. It's really nice, and I've seen a noticeable drop in wrist and finger fatigue because of it.
With a mere anecdote, I would also suggest having two kinds. Remember, the strain is a repetitive stress injury. Mechanical keyboards may be able to cut down on it, but RSI can still happen. I was getting pain in my wrist from using a mouse, so I switched to a trackball. I loved it so much that I bought one for work, too. A few weeks went by and suddenly I was having sharp pains in my thumb and after another week I was unable to move my thumb. I switched back to a regular mouse at work, keeping the trackball at home, and it balanced out.

So in my limited experience, just making sure you're load-balancing the stress you put on your hands every day makes a big difference. Not sure if this will hold true for a mechanical keyboard vs a regular keyboard, as it may not be enough of a difference. But it might.