skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My family owns a small pine plantation as an investment, and we were very lucky to buy our saplings right before the fery vast growth varieties came on the market.

The fast growth versions have extremely soft timber, its functionally useless, even the paper pulp mills only buy it at a discount.

They are probably vulnerable to storm damage too, but we haven't had to deal with that.

Might still be useful to build a wind break and out-compete introduced varieties in phases
The intent between

Username: Lawtonfogle
Password: hunter2' OR 1 = 1;

and

Username: admin
Password: hunter2' OR 1 = 1;

is quite different. Should these be treated equally as hacking?
https://stripe.com/bitcoin runs actually super smoothly for me on Firefox 35.
The point of a warrant is that a judge has decided that the needs of law enforcement override the right to privacy in this case. The point of the lawsuit is to set a precedent saying that the police cannot simply collect and analyze DNA without warrants.

Therefore if there is a demonstrable privacy issue to DNA collection and analysis, then requiring warrants is the accepted way in our legal system to balance the needs of law enforcement against people's right to privacy.
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Keep in mind that the merchant fee is .5% with Strip/Bitcoin. With regular credit card payment processing, the fee is something like 2.25%. The difference could be shared equally between the merchant and their customers. Life would be 1% cheaper for everyone (kind of).
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Hey Mark! Congrats, it looks awesome, good to see this here!
it did (or does). Sun did the same thing - nice discount for sun if they pay within 7 days, so everyone raised rates by that much. It was nice getting paid so quickly
The current model includes an "awards feed", where you can verify the completion of "goals" set previously. Verification is done by a voting system and requires video or images.

Currently, funds are distributed based on the popularity (votes) a completed goal receives from the community.

Details are still being flushed out.
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> I use XFCE with a custom HiDPI theme

Your documentation is great, thank you, I'm trying your XFCE4 theme right now (I've been using Cinnamon until now).

Could you possibly clarify these steps as written on your website for me?

[1] Activate in xfce4-settings-manager > Appearance > mntmn

[2] Activate in xfce4-settings-manager > Style > mntmn

I've launched xfce4-settings-manager and can set the "Appearance" in [1] to be mntmn but can't find where to set [2] (sorry xfce4 noob).
Few people buy things directly with gold.

"bitcoin transaction volume" is worthless. Anyone could easily make a new record in btc txs for a thousand dollars. If I send money to myself, it counts as a tx.

The real concern with bitcoin is that it can only support 3 transactions a second with the current codebase. Gavin wants to fork it to get rid of the block size limit, but there's been opposition.
Hey everyone! If you have any questions, I'll be here for the next several hours. Also check out the GitHub Wiki: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki .
Battleships are expensive, with little flexibility for the types of missions they can do.

The Navy wants railguns. Eg, http://www.wired.com/2014/04/electromagnetic-railgun-launche... :

> The Navy likes the weapon for several reasons, not the least of which it has a range of 100 miles and doesn’t require explosive warheads. That makes it far safer for sailors, and cheaper for taxpayers. According to the Navy, each 18-inch projectile costs about $25,000, compared to $500,000 to $1.5 million for conventional missiles.

http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Science-Technology/Departments/Co... says there's a goal of 10 rounds per minute.

These don't need to be on battleship. Here's one on a destroyer. http://news.usni.org/2015/02/05/navy-considering-railgun-thi...
Even though you're at the bottom of the comments, I'm inclined to agree. In case you're interested, here's an discussion of how this trend might at least be amenable to creating unique cryptographic IDs without the need for central governance.

https://github.com/MrChrisJ/World-Citizenship/issues/22#issu...
Superfish might have "benefactors" with deep pockets who want a scapegoat who won't squeal on them.
Lessons I Learned in the Army (2008)
As a power user, I can live with a 256GB SSD. But I can't live with less than 384GB of RAM.
I think you're referring to HTML 5[1].

[1] https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/
>"The immediate solution to the memory leaks and battery issues are to reboot into recovery and clear the cache every 2 weeks or so."

This reminds me so much to Windows 95 ...
This is exactly the kind of tree that Prof. Akira Miyawaki* refers to as 'fake trees':

http://www.ubraintv.com/watch.php?id=306

They are bred to be fast growing but they do not possess longevity nor are they hardy.

*Prof. Miyawaki is the inspiration and his methodology is the one adopted by Sharma.
Is there a version that's not touchscreen?
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Can you tell us who hacked BTER or Bitstamp then? Since it's so easy to deanonymize people, you know.

Just look at the addresses the stolen bitcoins were sent to.
>> Most of the projects never go anywhere.

Just in case you needed some backup for this point:

Google X started sometime in 2009-2010. In the time its been around only one project - the project around "Engineered Architecture" was successful and the team was able to form a company called Flux (https://www.flux.io).

Funny, they're being sued now by the architect they brought in with the idea for the program:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3039930/fast-feed/architect-sues...
Neat article! But one point: Turing machines aren't exactly what modern computers are based on so that's why you won't see many attempts at solving problems using Turing Machines. Computers are based on the RAM model of computation which can be shown to be equivalent to Turing Machines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_machine#Turing_eq...

Brainfuck is essentially a Turing Machine based programming language but I doubt useful problems will be solved in practice by rethinking problems in terms of Turing Machines.
Testosterone is a good example where just because there is a M/F differences does not mean that all M have more Testosterone than all F. So, within the Male designation there is a range of how Male someone is.
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Yeah - I take it back - I spoke too quickly. You can certainly launch large satellites with rockets. I was too focused on Hubble specifically.

That said, I remain deeply skeptical of the idea of being able to do so cost effectively or in a way that allowed for iteration and development of the systems. That's a lot of eggs in one basket to make 4 duplicates - they'd all fail in the same ways (which Hubble did early and often) and they'd be space junk in a heartbeat. You'd also want different cameras, which would have different requirements, etc. Once the contractors got a hold of that, they'd wind up 4 separate projects costing a fortune, and you'd be right back where you started, except without the budget. Keep in mind how long it took to build the HST. A servicing mission turned around in about 3 years.
Yep, any varient of jetbrains with their awesome sql +++ support beats this and most others hands down. Especially if you're someone who'd actually use this for real work. Like a statistician/analyst
> What happens to MAD after we have a reliable way to detect subs? :/ Don't really know.

Also, what happens if one side develops or believes they've developed that capability, and the other doesn't know? For example, a surprise attack to forever end U.S. power could be very tempting to competitors. They may decide they never will have a better opportunity, to grab the brass ring and do something historic, or that their odds are better in a surprise attack than in some expected future conflict.

I see many responses dismissing your concern. How much are they willing to bet on those theories? The future of humanity?
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I'm a "power user" and I'm doing fine with a 64GB partition. I use a ton of RAM and CPU but I don't have any need to store digital media with Netflix / Amazon / etc.
if you want to save i can recommend of Bitpay - no fees at all.
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I don't know if I should consider this "the easiest database ever" or "gun is not a database" (from the FAQ). Github says "a distributed, embedded, graph database engine".

I think some clarification around the marketing could do a world of good.
What was the point of this comment? I said in the first line it was my opinion.
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Tarsnap is fantastic, and I'd love to be able to use it more, but it's 25x more expensive than Glacier (not counting the whacky retrieval costs) and 10x more expensive than S3, so it's not really practical for bulk backups unless your data is particularly valuable.
You got me! :D
These days my power-use doesn't take up much space. I don't store many binaries because I can always re-download them quickly. But this varies according to what realm of power-use one is doing. I don't do anything with image/video/audio.
Folonce released Share files securely with AES-256
Hi people! I'm working on a service to share files securely with AES-256 and I want to know what do you think. No registration or anything is required :)

Keep in mind that is on an early stage and could has some bugs.

http://www.folonce.com
Ok, I think you're assigning me to a camp in your head that I do not belong to. I'm not the corporation-loving, lawyer-hating, "tort-reforming" droid you're looking for. If you believe in the rule of law, which I do, then lawsuits are inevitable. There have been great lawsuits in history that have ensured freedom, ended injustice, and punished evil. But there have also been lawsuits used to bully, intimidate, and coerce. I assume you've heard of patent trolls? How about the SCO saga? How about the Scopes Monkey Trial? That's why I said I'm "ambivalent"[1] about them.

[1]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambivalent
I built my first two iOS games in Objective-c using spritekit. I haven't built any games in swift, but I love swift compared to OC. I would pick a game engine first and then decide language.
Credit card fraud protection often relies on heuristics, perhaps they are doing a similar thing here.
When you don't know whether you're going to break even- because you don't, since this is a risky field and app stores are not even free markets to begin with-, a 30% tax is a strong deterrent.
This is yet another good argument for TextSecure and RedPhone, which don't depend on the SIM card encryption.

https://whispersystems.org/
so just to be clear, because I find this hard to believe, they are straight up, 100% lying? Or is this taking some hash generating code out of context or something?
http://hackerspaces.org/
I think Bitcoin is the Linux of payments. Everyone always talked about the potential to completely change the desktop (consumer use) but the real impact was the network/backend (Sun/NT machines) So Bitcoin is exciting to me but not as a payment method. But as a backbone it gets really interesting.
To extend this, the US attack submarine has seen mission creep from suppressing the opponent's missile submarine; directly engaging the opponent's attack submarines to protect friendly boomers; and harrying the opponent's capital naval and merchant fleets. With the end of the Cold War, US attack submarines have been increasingly deployed out of blue-water roles for which they are truly suited.

Industrial inertia more than increasing opponent capability has been the driving force behind continued maintenance of a substantial attack submarine fleet via the development of replacements for the Los Angeles class...somehow the reduction in boomers to hunt for didn't mean significantly fewer attack submarines and there are more in service now than at the turn of the millennium.
I think you'd be pretty agreeable if you were strapped for cash for more than 2 years
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Yeah, from reading some of the comments here they act like it's the height of inhumanity that places only have 2 bathrooms instead of nine.
Another science fiction story where P=NP by Charles Stross: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to...

(Put up by the author, so this is not piracy.)
Yet they do depend on a good RNG, don't they? Is that a given on common smartphones these days?
I don't understand why we're so keen to criticise tech companies for copying one another. Companies doing similar things are competing, and we generally consider that a good thing.

And sometimes a copy with some difference can be a lot better. Google+ hasn't taken off, but it wasn't ridiculous to think that grouping your contacts in circles for separate discussions could have been a significant improvement in social networking, like grouping emails into conversations was for webmail.
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Capsule schedules texts to your existing contacts for free.
Context is important, a 1% rate of serial killers would be a ridiculously huge issue for a country.
The problem with this is that, from the buyer's perspective, the price is almost always the same when using a credit card or alternative. And with a credit card, the buyer gets rewards back, typically 1% or so. So, sadly, using a credit card continues to have more protections, costs less, and has deferred payment. I don't think this is a good thing, just saying. I hold some bitcoins, but I never buy anything with them. It costs more.
Good point, oh boy - caught me red handed. shameshame.

What I'm trying to get across is that it is the easiest database because it is not your traditional master-slave database, and it doesn't require maintaining any database process. It is indeed just a cache, but it has all the benefits of a database.
GitLab CEO here, as you mention backing up the git repository is very important. We just announced free hosting for git-annex files and repositories on GitLab.com that might be good for your use case, see https://about.gitlab.com/2015/02/17/gitlab-annex-solves-the-... for an overview.
I would suggest you to follow TechMeAbroad. They are working on a platform to connect SV companies and candidates from abroad. It's not live yet, but soon to from what I heard.

https://twitter.com/techmeabroad
https://www.facebook.com/techmeabroad
Ok, a practical question: for those of us required to get a value for "sex" into a database, what possible values would be appropriate to have?

// and yes, we have to ask as their a whole lot of laws and scholarships that reporting requires the number
IT disaster? Time for a business continuity plan?
> Picking up papers out of the trash has always been fair game for law enforcement

AFAIK LE still needs a warrant of some kind in order to go through your trash. At least that's what I remember from watching The Star Chamber.
Oh that's perfectly fair. I don't doubt at all that this kind of thing is incredibly helpful for new programmers. Rather, I was just musing that I don't think I'd ever feel comfortable coding with the knowledge that someone's looking over my shoulder :)
He's so out of touch and doesn't understand the technical issues underpinning the need for network neutrality.

He seems to understand the issue when it's placed into the 1999 era context he's capable of understanding.

from the article - "...said he would have no objection to Congress passing a law specifying that Internet providers can’t discriminate against or block legal websites."

Well that's basically the same thing..... He's in favor of net neutrality, he just doesn't know it.
You should not be talking about other people's ability to understand things if you so blatantly lack it yourself.
"Backblaze is a backup service, Glacier is not. Glacier is a storage service"

This was my original point, and thank you for stating it so clearly. My concern with the article was that is was saying "Here is a storage service, and here is what I do to use it as a backup, isn't that cheap and easy!"

If you want a backup service, you are often better off purchasing a backup service instead of trying to roll your own on top of someone else's storage service. YMMV
The article is about sex, not sure why you talk about gender.
I'm surprised that Dell managed to get back to this point, but I think Apple is no longer a no-brainer if you want a "nicer" build quality, and you can start differentiating based on support. I never thought I would buy a non-Apple laptop again, but I've actually been eyeing the Dell XPS and a friend's recent experiences w/ AppleCare makes me want to take every effort to find an alternative hardware vendor, assuming they can hit close to the same quality.
Grazing for conservation is an interesting topic. Clearly, cattle and sheep do trample stream banks. In over-grazed lands (any place in the western USA) practically all riparian habitat has been destroyed by grazing.

But, limited grazing does have benefits. At the Vina Plains ecological preserve (near Chico, California) they found that without grazing invasive weeds took over the entire site. When they allowed limited grazing the cattle trampled the non-native weeds, giving the native grasses and flowers a chance to grow. Just letting a herd through briefly in the spring season was enough to have this effect and not enough to ruin the streams.

This is an interesting article about grazing at Vina Plains. https://www.cnps.org/cnps/publications/fremontia/january_200...
You see, "high" and "low" testosterone does make sense on a continuum. It is plausible to think that incremental jumps on this scale could mean incrementally different predictions. I could see how there could be some noisiness and complication, but that doesn't mean the construct lacks competitive utility.

However, I don't think the researchers would accept testosterone as an adequate spectrum to contain human sex. So what spectrum is proposed, then? I have difficulty imagining, because I think having a spectrum of Maleness vs Femaleness would be antithetical to what the researchers want.
Azure PaaS and VS. Azure allows us to sidestep a lot of iteration 0 and devops stuff and just hit the metal. VS is just pretty good at what it does.
> Relative to what?

Relative to the total. Are you that fucking stupid?
They can speed things up if they want to. I hope you're not providing your service for free for 9 months. At some point you need to give them a deadline. It's easy with SaaS, as you can just flick off the switch if they don't pay. Obviously with a large, important customer you don't want to immediately deactivate their account if they are overdue by a day, but you have to have a limit!
Indeed, and you'll see they don't filter the input so XSS attacks are possible.

Just enter a question of "<script>foo</script>", and reload the main index to see it happen.
People are reading too much into this article- it's more like "1% of the population has this interesting genetic condition that may have impacts under some conditions" not "1% of the population is being discriminated against"
I didn't clearly state my case.

A first strike requires reliably hitting a bunch of targets, often on a schedule. If your intended target has a possibility of randomly (from your viewpoint) taking out some fraction of these incoming warheads, how much more complicated does that make your plan?

If you're talking about protecting a target (nation) from an attack, then "Missile Defense" shouldn't even be your first line of defense. Civil Defense is to protect the people's lives, anti-missile defenses to protect their possessions and those who don't make it to a shelter in time.
@gitgohq: You seem to be hellbanned (probably for spamming, given your posting history), so people might not see your answers.
Or if you just plant one or a few out in the open, they shoot right up.
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GitGo looks amazing, but honestly trying to compete against GitHub / GitHub Enterprise, and BitBucket seems daunting. There is just so much more of a community and familiarity with GitHub and BitBucket.

Also with pricing starting at $5 and capping at $25 your going to need a gigantic amount of paying customers just to get to a reasonably sustainable MRR of $20,000. GitHub makes nearly ALL of their revenue from GitHub Enterprise, there is not enough money in their standard monthly plans.
> We credit USD to our user's account when we see a transaction that we believe will become confirmed.

Can you please elaborate?
Not all of your interactions over the past 6 hours as of that time, just most of the back-and-forth, in particular, with comments being posted up to "10 minutes ago" so there is a chance of ninja-edits made to be more polite (something I often do) and checking later I recognized all the sentences I read.
First off, I think there is a need for this type of thing, and I would use something like this!

Some ideas:

- what does it look like once you login (screenshots)
- please have an examples page or something like that
- can I build a list like rails, ubuntu, nginx and have it email me? (examples page)
- what does the score do? (again, examples page)
- depending on the data feed, you might also include -
app updates, like -- new version of rails, nginx, or flash, etc
Your ICBM trade-off regarding corrections is outdated. Disarmament community has reported USN test administrators as stating latest W76-1/Mk4A LEP has introduced real-time GPS corrections throughout re-entry and terminal phase. A similar effort is underway to upgrade USAF RB's. Hypersonic aerodynamics and control research is going to pay dividends at some point, and apply to both hypersonic in-atmospheric and sub-orbital weapon control.

The "risk of nuclear payload" is only a severe problem if overflight is necessary. The RF would be able to assess that a non-overflying SLBM was not targeting RF territory as soon as it traveled through the radar nets. Obviously this is still probably a stupid weapon to use in a conventional context.
If you are a developer and want to disable superfish on your site, follow the instructions here: http://glipdev.github.io/

We discovered this a few months ago after customers with lenovo laptops were complaining that our site wasn't working for them.
I've solely used the command line client for the last few years. I stopped using pgAdmin because it did not gracefully handle flakey network connections (i.e. vpn restarts). Has this improved recently?
Would they be any good for building cheap, sustainable log cabins?
If this is the case, then the headline and byline are clickbait oversimplifications in their own right.

If there are people in this world who wish to reject the concept of gender association with our biological reproductive systems, is there a need to provide additional classification, rules of governance, services, etc. other than "Denies classification"?

Otherwise, are we not chasing a long tail of specific situations in which everything can be deemed intolerant?
Interesting and well thought out point.
Reminds me a little of NESL: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html
Their missiles don't have the range to hit launch sites that are far inland in North America or Eurasia.

You're severely underestimating the range of SLBMs. The Russian RSM-56 can cover the entire continental US from both Saint Petersburg and Vladivostok.
It seems great, but I really need a 16GB RAM option. (At least they have the 512GB SSD)

With a couple of VMs, and a webbrowser, 8 GB can get tiny, and those machines don't evolve, so I'd like to plan for a couple of years...