skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I don't really want to modify the SQL the user types in the query

2. Syntax highlighting is hard to get right, but I'll add it eventually.

3. Postico by default runs all the queries, you can use the popup menu at the bottom to toggle between results. Select some text (even discontinuous selection using ⌘) and only the selected part is executed.

4. Key bindings are shown as tooltips (hover over buttons for a few seconds), and you can find more keybindings by looking throught the menus.

5. The history search totally makes sense and I just haven't gotten around to implement it yet.
NuoDB Scale-Out Performance Demo
14.04 is the LTS release, most corporate environments using Ubuntu that I've encountered jump between the LTS releases due to the five year support cycle. Being that a fairly large portion of the Dell's customer base it does make sense.
Unreal is really winning a lot of points in my book. First with the engine pricing and now this. If I ever step up my mobile game making to 3D I'd definitely use them over Unity.
Yes, but so what? How do you link this argument back? 70 million is a lot of people in MORAL terms. What about scientifically?

We aren't talking about killing 70 million people. We're talking about the strength of constructs in terms of scientific utility.

This is also the problem with huge numbers. It's very hard to process and we are intuitively intimidated by the largeness, such as with numbers from the state budget. $70 billion? Oh my god. How am I supposed to process that number?

Also note that 1% is a figure arising from the most inclusive definitions.
Clearly there is some potential effect, so yea you are right. But this is pretty tenuous, rare, and this sort of risk comes with any police investigation.

If the police see a red BMW leave a scene, it might accidentally cause a person with a red BMW to be falsely investigated.

Human eyewitness evidence is even worse.

So yea, while there is some effect, it is no more than what we already accept.
Whatever the contract says. But if you have a long term deal, I would recommend quarterly, or preferably annual billing. Dealing with checks is a pain. In my experience, big co's are no more or less likely to pay on time than anyone else. But they don't tend to pay early.

If it's small recurring billing, just have them use a credit card. Even then, annual billing is preferred - it cuts down on the requests for invoices from their accounting departments in addition to the obvious cash flow advantages of collecting a year up front.
You meant "Only Google doesn't support those anymore..."
Chimnee – iphone app for anonymous workplace conversations
I would love to know where you can outsource things for 100X less than US?

Two more things, what about cost of living? and do you know how tough it is to get an H1B unless you have studied in US. (my guess, no!)
Pretty ironic that the subheading of the article says, "They could simply become the next battleship." Battleships would be an awesome asset today if we hadn't scrapped them. Their main guns can put 2500 lbs of ordinance on targets 40 km away. Think of what that capability would look like these days with GPS guided rounds. America's ability to project force in the littorals is worse-off for not having maintained battleships in the arsenal.
Agreed. Which is why some of the newer cryptocurrencies like Monero are gaining some attention.
> where their currency is not that stable and average inflation is around 3-5% it could have great potential

Yougottabekidding
To be fair and somewhat blunt with facts:

* Today's bitcoin / USD High/Low trading price shows a swing of a bit more than 3%

* Today's Argentine Peso (ARS) / USD High/Low trading price shows a swing of 0.1% (Argentina being a country with high inflation problems)
If you really where a 20+ year submariner then you should already know the screw is not the loudest thing onboard by a long shot. Also if you bothered to read the full article they are not using just sound to detect.

Granted this would only pertain to some of the current fast attack missions in regards to some countries. SEAL delivery is a relatively close up mission considering how big the ocean is.
a privacy respecting and much more polished search engine you might like is searx: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
'cause I'm a Windows user who don't know the advanced flags of Unix command-line tools
Why Can't the Public See FCC's Proposed Internet Regulations?
The link to the source code does not work. Also the source code dir on the ftp site is empty. Wanted to see how this language worked
City of Detroit launches open data portal
> However, 1% don't select other; They get offended that you don't have Facebook's 72-pronoun list, and even if you do, that doesn't cover their particular favorite.

Keep in mind that social media generally exemplifies the dregs of humanity. The people who make a fuss about "Other" on the internet are not representative of the everyone in that 1%. I'm pretty sure you don't have enough information to make the statement you did above.
It's not fine because, as is the case with Superfish, this type of software leaves gaping security holes that blackhats can exploit no matter how noble the vendor is.
The difference between shedding of hair and skin and throwing away paper is a question of intention and ability. I could choose to take more care with the paper, but avoiding shedding any DNA is basically impossible. Compare it with new x-ray/radar/EM techniques police can use to eavesdrop from miles away or even view you through walls, or read what you're typing or viewing on your various screens--there's basically no way to avoid transmitting such information into the world. Should police be able to gather it without going to a judge?
Dwolla to help U.S. Treasury go paperless, prepare for a secure digital future
Human Traffickers Caught on the Hidden Internet
Should it be fair game for me to download a movie from "some site I found it on", because I didn't take it from the studio itself?

If copyright works through "authorization", I don't see why we should accept it as natural and normal for authorities to use our fingerprints, hair, or even sperm without our permission. Speaking of the last one, I don't think it's legal for a woman to impregnate herself with a man's sperm by taking it from a used condom and without his knowledge?
> the pure scientific fact may not be useful at all, or actually confound your ability to understand things.

That's true in the abstract (undeniably, some scientific fact is confounding -- I don't need to know about about quantum uncertainty to cook dinner) but I don't think it applies well to this issue.

This report may confound some people's understanding of sexuality, but to people who don't fit that conventional understanding, and to their loved ones, it does the opposite. Imagine a lifetime of being reminded that you don't belong -- every bathroom sign, do you attend the girls school or the boys, every form you fill out, every locker room experience, every medical procedure, etc etc. Addressing that seems much more important and fair than reducing the confusion that new ideas can bring.

This is the nature of change and progress: Humans naturally are very egocentric, and can be wholly unaware of others' experiences and perspectives. When the reality of those experiences is thrust upon us, we often object -- everything seems fine to us, after all, and our old theories explain our experiences.

Think of the responses to racial and gender discrimination, where many in the majority insist that it doesn't exist. After all, they haven't experienced it.
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, by Kent Beck

Smalltalk is object oriented from the ground up and this book is full of advice and examples of good OOAD. Even if your every day language is Java, C++ or something else, this book will show you OO the way it was meant to be done.

It's not quite as easy to follow as the Sandi Metz book I mentioned above, but worth the effort.

j.
The interesting difference between this review and that of most others is that Anandtech endorsed Dell's claims of 15 hours of battery life.

Reviews like at The Verge[1] measured the battery life at 6.5 hours.

I trust Anandtech more than The Verge to conduct properly controlled tests, but it really does illustrate the point that usage has a far bigger impact on battery life on modern notebooks than it did in the past.

1: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/13/8030821/dell-xps-13-laptop...
Where is the first line from?

Pretty egregious misrepresentation from Lenovo if that's true.
Plus, they have no reason to do so, because unlike Lenovo, they make a healthy profit on their hardware. (I believe IBM was in the same position with its ThinkPads back in the day.) In contrast, the bargain PC laptop makers have little or no profit margin on the hardware itself, so they're always looking for other ways to eke out a bit more money.

This is why I'm willing to pay a bit more for things I rely upon and care about. If you were a climber, would you try to save a buck by using an off-brand, bargain rope?
Why Your Doctor Might Not Be the Best Nutritional Resource
Thanks for that, We just fixed it.

Glad you like it.
BTC is not an investment for stability [1]. And the OP is still asking a valid question, why pay BTC when that's several extra steps rather than pay debt or credit?

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/price/
As much as I love SSD's, is 256GB actually enough for power users? Or are they assuming the OS will be on the SSD and you can hook up an external HD for more space?

Just curious.
Here's more from the mayors press conference:

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2015/02/detroit_...

This has me so excited because the number one request we've had at Code Michigan has been for Detroit API's.
The great SIM heist
5) get used to surveillance society.
This is not likely to be possible. Rob Graham was able to do it for Superfish because the SSL interceptor resides on the same machine as the browser, meaning that the private key is accessible to anyone who installs Superfish.

By contrast, the GoGo interceptor is going to be a computer somewhere either on the plane or possibly on the ground (at some GoGo data center), meaning that its private key isn't accessible unless you can somehow gain access to the interceptor system.
GNOME Terminal is missing any way of saving the scrollback buffer to a file or to the clipboard, which is a backwards step from iTerm2. But other than that, it is pretty similar.

One substantial difference though (which threw me at first...) as that it's much more reliant on keyboard shortcuts than iTerm2 is. There are a fair few things it can do that don't have any clickable UI. So the man page is worth examining, as is the Keybindings tab of the Preferences dialog - there are a few things you mightn't discover otherwise.
Nice! Finally a good client
I can't believe you're having this conversation either. You're correct, obviously; you've thrown out tons of trivially correct examples to make it clear to everyone just how right you are, none of which have anything to do with this. You are of course aware that 1% out of a population has nothing to do with the concept of a 1% error on your taxes or 1% blood alcohol. Alcohol does not affect you 1% of the time if you have a 1% BAC.

Everyone here knows that if you make the population arbitrarily large, the 1% sample becomes large too. But can you really argue that being able to represent 99% with a binary spectrum isn't a pretty good approximation? What percentage would be good enough for you? Or are you going to say "99.9% isn't good enough because 7 million is a lot of people. that's more than died in X'?
The point being that you don't have to MITM their connection. The private key is in the wild, you can sign a cert and host it anywhere on the internet. Any visitors who have that see that cert signed by that root cert will say "yep, fine, go ahead".

So then you spam the world with "Important message from Lenovo" and hope they click on https://len0v0.com and install your important update
Only for JPGs, though, no RAWS or anything else. And upload speeds are capped. And all your photos are in cleartext on Amazon's end.
Ninety Five Percent of Carbanak Malware Exhibits Stealthy or Evasive Behaviors
Hang in there - It does eventually get better.

I was in a very similar situation - unable to find work after college. It took me three years from graduation before I landed a job that was even tangentially related to what I wanted to do. In the interrim I did a bit of everything from bagging groceries to furniture delivery to repo work. The hardest part about it all was trying to find an explanation for my family as to why I'd spent those years in college. Or to explain why I couldn't find work. "Can't you try this? Can't you try that?" (Well, mom, that's what I was trying _last_ year and it didn't exactly work then.)

There isn't always a reason. Sometimes it's just bad timing. I stuck with my search, slowly (too slowly) expanded the list of places I'd be willing to live or the list of jobs I'd be willing to take. A decade later and I'm doing what I had set out to do in the first place.
Grunt task for automatically updating NPM modules and tests to catch regressions
Bigger company less they care about due dates on the invoice.
Does it just show the title of the matched question? I can't seem to get to any actual answers from this.
Given that Apple has made a priority of elevating convenience above security, I'm not sure how seriously to take Cook on the subject of the importance of privacy and security.
I'm currently using Ubuntu 14.04 at work and 14.10 on my personal laptop. For a few months I've been using it exclusively at home, without having the need to dual-boot Windows.
Even though I've wanted to get a MacBook Pro for the last couple of years, I've started to change my mind because Ubuntu simply rocks. First of all, it's really fast. My personal laptop is 5 years old and Ubuntu seems to be more reliable and a lot faster than Windows. Moreover, I've seen benchmarks suggesting that for some applications it's also faster than OS X.

I've tried out different desktop environments but I'm sticking with Unity for now. It's really simple to use and clean. I do most of my work in the terminal anyways.
If you guys want to make Unity look better, I suggest trying out the Numix themes and icon packs. They change Unity almost completely and make it look a lot stylish. It also works in Gnome3.

In what regards terminal emulators, I recommend Terminator. I use it because it allows arranging terminals in grids, which comes in handy especially at work. It is based on Gnome Terminal.
The Kaspersky equation
This month, and 3 years ago:

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-intel-ship-s...
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-suspected-russian-submarine...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/06/report-second-rus...
Does this mean I can pay my taxes in Bitcoin?
Pretty vaguely written, but it is free.
Actual execution plan's costs in SQL Server still contain a lot of estimates, I have seen
SQL Server guide you in the wrong direction if you are looking at the thing "costing" the most, when in fact I find when I am doing perf tuning my biggest first steps are:
1. Is the code pants on head stupid and not set based or not sargable
2. Do the query plans clearly misinterpret the data and why that is

My current process is:
1. set statistics io on; set nocount on;
2. Grab actual execution plan, throwing it in sql sentry plan explorer (free edition) (holy crap good)
3. Finding which estimates are off in the breakdown in 2
4. Investigating specific code areas where estimates are vastly different than actual, fixing whatever issue (implicit conversions, udfs, old stats, etc) arises
5. Consider adding indexes if needed
6. Paste outputs of both stats into http://www.statisticsparser.com/ (you can have it print things as headers, so I like print 'test a' go exec sp_proc @params go print 'test b' go exec sp_proc2 @params )
7. Compare if I did it right or not by checking overall reads, cpu time, etc

Update: I have the videos in question on my dropbox, I dont know if they would like a public link, so if you dont want to sign up let me know via my email in my profile and I will send them to you.
How API Description Languages Enable API IDEs
Not being mean here, but purely looked at, these "atypical sexes" are deformities. I don't think it is accurate to call them anything else.
I clicked on the dinosaur, learnt that some things are strings and some things are true/false, and that I could change these values to change how the dinosaur dances. Seems legit.
Another difference between lifting fingerprints and lifting DNA is that the genetic markings can be studied to give further insight into the person - for example medical, removing more of their privacy, which without probable cause, is in breach of the 4th amendment.

A fingerprint however, if found in public and considered fair game tells you one thing - that you were there, or someone reasonably competent in lifting and transferring fingerprints has a copy of your fingerprint and is attempting to put you in the spotlight. It doesn't tell the discoverer of your print anything further about you.
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Same. Disabling dynamic floating preview (keyboard) also helps. For an extra boost, though it may be a stretch for some, get in dev mode and disable animations.
I agree as well. The animation was way too fast for me.
Even when I was a child (35 years ago) it was already common knowledge that hermaphrodites exist. So this is really not shocking news. It's interesting that they have new biological insights, but I'd say it's biologically interesting, not socially.
Although it certainly seems wrong to operate babies to fix them on a gender - but I doubt there was ever a scientific rationale behind it.
I don't think anyone there thought/realized that they were including a backdoor usable by any number of third parties (by virtue of installing a mitm-cert, and giving away the key). And this case is much worse than any other crapware-by-way-of-oem than I've heard of. But given the amount of nasty stuff most vendors seem to install on systems -- it appears to me that no one really looks at what is installed, or gives much thought to the consequences.

It's negligent, and in this case probably criminally so -- and that might constitute "an evil" -- but I don't think this is the result of someone's overt intentional evil act. I don't think anyone actually did consider the security risk of this particular piece of software. Maybe I'm naive, but if nothing else, the risk of lawsuits/backlash seems too great in this case.

I don't like ads and bloatware, but I think calling them "evil" is diluting what "evil" means.

I might be wrong, of course. But I don't think any of the big OEMs does any real review of the crap that is installed on computers -- and I think forgetting to generate an unique cert/key on post-install/first run is an error -- not intentional. Deciding to install this kind of crap strikes me as a very poor decision -- but I'm still not sure I'd consider it evil. Evil would be using the Intel management co-prosessor to do something similar -- presumably then a clean install wouldn't help.
I respect Colin and what he does, but tarsnap is too expensive for general purpose/consumer back ups, I mean photos and videos.
Maybe they just hope that the fluctuations will balance out?
Win Over the First Distraction of Your Day
Found it: http://hackersurfing.com/
Thanks! I might actually write a "behind the scenes" post, assuming I find the motivation to do it :p
Manage your time like Google
Internet of Things Is the Frankenbeast of Information Security
Seeing the differences between how this performs in chromium vs firefox is a little annoying... it's one thing that chromium still does much better, for the time being I hope.
Do they want me to be apathetic about the actions of our government? I'm getting close.
Robocoin Releases Cash SDK to Bring Bitcoin to Traditional ATMs
How do we ensure a proper association between the samples taken and the person in question, in particular as described in the case from the article, especially without some sort of formal framework and authorization before hand?
That's a fair point on the change in population since WW2.

However, I think that the atypically-sexed population is important for reasons other than numbers, too.
>so why should the hair be different?

Because it is unreasonable to avoid. A reasonable person who wants to maintain privacy has the ability to avoid throwing things they don't want to be found out. A reasonable person who wants to maintain privacy must be unreasonable in order to prevent his or her DNA from being all over the place.

IANAL, but I feel like the 4th amendment needs to be interpreted in light of the difficulty of obtaining private information on a person at the time, and the ease of obtaining it now. At the time, the 4th amendment pretty much prevented law enforcement from getting any information on you that you didn't broadcast (absent a warrant). I think it is reasonable to use that standard.

> (2) Unreasonable search and seizure is relative...invading a persons time/space/property/anything.

But it is invading a persons privacy. Their DNA contains information that is as private to them as what they do in their home with the blinds drawn.
You've got to hand it to the Slidemail guy. He posts a few days ago with a Show HN for his launch page and gets criticized that it is against the rules of Show HN to post to a sign-up form. So now he posts an unrelated, but available app on the subdomain with a link to his main project...
What is your reference for this range assertion? OS intelligence says that US SLBM's can strike any target in Eurasia from either ocean. What is your reference for the assertion that Trident is vulnerable to ABM? RF has no operational ABM system capable of striking RB's entering at 8 km/s. Why do submarines have to move quickly to enable a first strike? Can't they just stealthily move into the exact position necessary days prior to launch? You should review what public data is available on Trident testing, because it contradicts every one of your assertions. The Trident equipment section has been observed conducting 14 distinct warhead release maneuvers in space. The largest warhead Trident can carry is estimated to have a 500kt yield. Trident is estimated to carry a max loadout to >7e3 km, and a reduced (treaty) loadout to >11e3km. It is also estimated to exhibit the precision necessary to guarantee kills against the latest Russian silos (envelop the silo structure within the earthen blast cavity). This means that the Trident fleet can strike and neutralize every counter-force target in Eurasia from defended waters. There is no "proper air defence to take down the missiles" in existence, and there is no indication that current ABM programs have any hope of defeating a MIRV'd fleet of solid fuel launchers.
It does seem like this is more of an amateur hour screw-up. It isn't beyond the NSA to plant developers that can insert backdoors on their behalf or set up front companies to sell vulnerable libraries but one would hope that they have enough sense not to leave cleartext passwords in a binary. Of course that could be an intentional misdirection so one never really knows.
Currently, we're using Duplicity for our backups, going to Amazon S3.

I've looked a some of the newer options like Bup, Attic, Obnam etc.

However, none of them seem to support S3 as an endpoint, which is a shame. They all seem to need a full-fledged *nix server on the other end.

Does anybody know of any of these new-fangled de-dupe backup apps that works with just S3?