skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with our desalinisation plant wasn't that it was built, it's that it wasn't made a 'roll-out' system, paying for and bringing online sections of the plant as we needed them. Instead we paid for the whole thing as a job lot.

As for the end of the drought, no-one could predict it. People had been predicting the end of the ten-year drought of since year three or so. Melbourne's water was down to 14% of reserve, which was only worth a couple of years of rationed usage. Unfortunately, the people who campaigned against the desal plant convenient forgot that little tidbit...
Think the reality is it will just let us consume these feeds more easily.

Twitter will adapt to the watch well and with less friction on notifications Facebook has more opportunities to engage you.

There does seem to be a strong narrative from commentators on 'freeing' us from our phones, but I can't see the reality being anything other than the other way around.

It's the phone breaking free from our pockets and making itself always available within reach and vision.

I think we'll look back and see this as the middle stage in the evolution in the phone consuming us.

The last stage of complete consumption, will be attaching to our heads / brains at some point.
I thought that the debut of smart-watches were supposed to transform the watch industry and consumer attitudes towards it (where a watch's useful life can be anywhere from 5 to 50+ years).

Towards that goal, A 400$ watch with a life of 3-5 years sounds like a reasonable proposition, but 10,000$ for a watch with the same obsolescence is frankly ridiculous.
I had some cheapie external modem that didn't have a full AT command set for some reason, ended up physically soldering a switch between the speaker and the rest of the circuit to mute/unmute it.
I'd bet a month's pay that the hooks are at least there in Explorer to let you do all of those things though.

Apple usually doesn't let you customize anything. That's why I can have things like Tortoise Git/Hg/SVN and Mac users cannot.
Japan was not interested in any outcome that didn't preserve their empire in China. that was non-negotiable to them.

In addition, as noted above, this only was the proposal from the peace party.

My belief in the United States "being concerned about another war in 20 years" is well founded and documented. Please see the personal memoirs of Marshall for example.

Sadly yes, the United States did need to prove to them, something that very basic laws of economics should have revealed - they had no shot whatsoever, at any point, in winning a war against the United States if total mobilization came into play.
That extra twangy bit means the modems negotiated a V.92[1] connection instead of a v.90 connection. Just a newer protocol, that was a bit faster, but required cleaner phone lines to negotiate successfully.

I spent 6.5 years of my life working technical support for a dial-up ISP. Listening to the handshake (when the user had two phone lines so they could attempt a connection with us on the line to listen) was a valuable diagnostic tool.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.92
So, the infrastructure equivalent of buffing your car because you know that'll make it rain the next day? :)
Cmd+shift+g in finder also has autocomplete.
I would say it's just a little different to direct students, who are more or less completely powerless and captive, compared to industry leadership.
String theory is one step closer to uniting two fundamental elements of physics
With https://01.org/linuxgraphics/ are you able to use OpenGL ES 3 at least? Should have better shader model support.
This is just one of many reasons why you should not ever stick unknown things in your healthy ports (or your healthy things in unknown ports). Not without protection. Safety first. But I'm a firm believer that people should be able to consent to this kind of behavior if they really wish to.
Hope behind Endings
After some digging, it sounds like "exclusive" is used pretty loosely here.

You can log in with a browser, its just registration that requires and apple device, and that includes osx.
In principle, I agree with everything you said.

In practice? No so much. One could write volumes about how the wheels quickly come off the wagon in each area you listed, since they all happen inside of very specific, narrow, and rigid constructs, ones that seldom translate well.

The analogy that comes to mind would be claiming that having experience leading a team of first-year resident physicians prepares one to be good at motivating people from a broad variety of backgrounds to work hard and long hours.

Which isn't to say that all academics can't excel outside that environment, of course. Talented, gifted academics who would excel at almost anything in which they're engaged will also succeed outside of academia.
spammers maybe not but what about just subtly reporting false/bias results in otherwise legit apps?
One thing to keep in mind though is that you can comfortably read text that is quite a bit smaller on retina, so you can work at a higher application zoom level, which gives you back some space. Not sure whether the interface elements are too big for this display size, but intuitively the resolution sounds about right, it's about the same as the old (beloved) Powerbook 12'' as far as I remember.
Yeah, it's not really a problem. I just thought it's funny that this author got so many articles out, and that we've already re-hashed and re-re-hashed Adria Richards a few times lately.
> Modern medical technology relies heavily on computers and software.

Which is why medical devices should all have ECC memory. And for that matter physical separation between any processor that might run attacker-controlled code and the processor responsible for That Which Must Not Fail.

Product defects like this are foreseeable. If bad memory can cause a medical device to kill someone, the party at fault is the one who made a medical device without sufficient redundancy and error correction that bad memory could cause it to kill someone.
Bees have been breeding to be calm for hundred of years, to ease the work of the beekeepers. But therefore they are also less aggressive to intruders and pests.
Wild bees and bumblebees are far more aggressive.

Their diversity and therefore robustness was also reduced because of excessive breeding to maximum profit for men.

Also their honey is their medicine and food and is taken away and substituted with a poor sugar water substitution.
The Visual Effects of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” [video]
I wonder how this will impact the resell prices of the former models.
O'Reilly HTMLBook Specification
Well if you're looking at CPU speed when buying it won't, but a suzeable number of Apples market probably doesn't.
If you use a USB hub, would both it and your computer get cooked, or just the USB hub?
To me, the books wouldn't be that much of a problem. After all most games have some form of written or cineatic storytelling. But Blow's rants against traditional games makes it seem a bit hypocritical that he had to resort to (only) the books for his storytelling. I mean the ending combines story and mechanic and I wished there was something in the other levels that emphasized the content of the books.
Robert Sofia – Strategy, Tactics, and Guidance
This is surprising. I thought the whole point of SIM cards was to prevent duplicates on the network. I guess it's still better if they retain control over who is duplicating them. But I would expect them to revoke the "lost" one to avoid fraudulent access by anyone who finds it.
I consider the gold standard of file browsers to be the one the pro-NeXT+Cocoa/anti-Carbon camp swore on Jesus' grave that would vastly exceed and suck less than the Carbon one once Apple finally rewrote it entirely in Cocoa. Well that happened and yet there's been essentially no change. It still hangs and spins a beachball when a network is disconnected, it's still gets confused what icons to use, and duplicate app icons in contextual launch menus, on and on, it's like - yeah it's not a Cocoa vs Carbon thing, can we admit that now?
UK Parliament says banning Tor is unacceptable and impossible
I totally agree that people need to feel like they have skin in the game.

And I wish lawn-watering laws did that, but they don't seem to. I think the natural result with mankind–at least with Californians–seems to be that people then feel like they've done their part, and can go back to watching television. The state has a long history of such behavior across a variety of issues, and I don't think this one's any different, unfortunately.

It's a fine line, but Californians need to be having difficult conversations about the composition and nature of their economy, and the true long-term environmental impact of those choices, instead of feeling good about feeling bad.

Sending city employees out to fine people for watering their lawns, while legislators continue to enable a billion-dollar industry on land that can't support it for much longer, is what's happening.

The state's supposed to be at the forefront of environmental restraint, but can't ever seem to make do with what it has (whether it's water, money, or otherwise).

So what does it do?

Same thing it always does: Sweat the small stuff to win the PR game and fill the public coffers, sell bonds to fund boondoggles that won't attempt to solve any root causes, and seek reelection: something made considerably easier by the first two.
Were less applications for it back then though!
Why? Sounds like a way to increase security awareness. Although, I suppose a huge blaring alarm might do just as well. Leave them around your office/parking lot and see who uses them. Then have a chat. Better they plug in a bad device you control vs one carrying a truly malicious payload. (Probably a good idea to attempt to phish employees, too.)
Never miss the right side up with SanDisk's new reversible USB Type-C connector
Add facetime to that list. Me and many others haven't been able to use it for over a year due to popping noises. (https://discussions.apple.com/message/27784968?ac_cid=tw1234...) And before the popping there was the intense echo (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5489176?start=0&tstart=...)

For me osX was the reason to switch, yes, nice battery life (at the time, 2011) was nice but having iMovie for family movies, a pro-Photo-suite for 60$ (Aperture!) and being able to call family (who all have iPads) over facetime were most compelling.

Finder is indeed horrible, it never reconnects my Samba share, it never opens the way I left it and always in a window that I find too small, when browsing to a network share it may sometimes switch from icon view to tree view and the mapping of the folders in home is strange, in the terminal the folders are called differently in my language. And where is sshfs, ftp etc. Really, I have to download Cyberduck?!
Follow the money:

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/04/the-politics-of-drou...
Here are some stats on advertising cost per thousand views (CPMs) from mid-2014, which may be relevant:
http://monetizepros.com/blog/2014/average-cpm-rates/

Some excerpts:

Average CPM for business & finance: $6.15

Average CPM for technology: $4.56

Average CPM for style and beauty: $1.48

So at $4.56 per thousand views, assuming one ad per page, even if an article does 20K views, that's only $91. This is why news organizations look for differentiators; it's what we did when I was at Wired and CNET, though I was on the editorial side, not advertising. Unfortunately not all news organizations succeed; Gigaom did events and had a paid research arm, but that wasn't enough. I'm also still mourning Dr. Dobb's, which I first read as a teenager. :(
I think there is an assumption that this enables such a job that otherwise would be unattainable. As an individual, of course you want the $80k job, despite the $60k job "requiring less debt", plus you then get to keep the $80k job after the 2 years.
Is there any way to select a license for an existing GitHub repository, without adding or modifying any file at a particular location in the tree?

Also, it's difficult to find out the license for any given repository while casually browsing or searching. I'm often looking for things that come with (or without) a particular license, e.g. "I can't use any GPL components in my current project." It would be really nice if the license was displayed prominently, just like the programming language used.
Ok, that's awesome.
Does your startup make money? (are we in a bubble)
Can't agree more. Remote is the future!
One other factor to consider is the (mostly successful) attempt by the grocery industry to differentiate their produce by offering "organic" crops at a 50-300% markup, which almost always lowers the yield per acre and often requires more water per acre. The markup way offsets the increased water costs, to the detriment of other water users.
Depends on how lucky you are, there's no specific protection for something like this.
Another thing I expect California to eventually try: geoengineering far out in the Pacific, to create extra winter storms.
I bet you could get a few thousand of these made for like 10 grand? I'm glad people who just want to cause mayhem aren't competent.
This reminds me of the Etherkiller page (sending 120 volt to various devices: NICs, HDDs...): http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/
> People complain that they get crappy ads, unfortunately they also complain about being tracked.

Is it so hard to understand? Give us ads related to the website content and pay CPM instead CPC to the website owner. On IT sites it would be helpful to see some ads about hardware devices and books, on digital news papers show us cars, holiday destinations, etc.

Instead we are followed by ads of products that we just bought like a plague. With personalized ads, you just make it worse, as more visitor get annoyed and root their mobile device to install adblock.
Mart light-bulb developer Terralux raises $11M
I read it. This has nothing to do with Slashdot. You keep making statements as if you knew the situation better than the woman directly involved in the decision.
A quick wiki visit says the term open source existed before the OSI. But that's not really important.

I just wanted to point out that UE4 does a better job than many other engine (and software!) vendors, since they give you a peek at the source and I think this should be praised, rather than scolded for not being totally free.
Better, but it still reinforces the notion that there's some secret rule somewhere requiring virtually all aspects of any Linux UI to be ugly.
I was thinking more along the line of using a raspberry pi personally.
Budgie – Daily budget app with rollover of unspent allowance
I once encountered a computer that was the opposite of this; plug any USB device into it, and the device would never work again, even in another computer.
Obama's $100M plan to boost high-tech training, hiring
I recently dropped and broke my smartphone, which, by Iphone standards was probably shit, but it cost 300.00 bucks, which is nice for me. I bought a $40.00 ZTE piece of stinker at Target, and I am a VERY satisfied customer.

I can look up restaurant addresses, read HN, shop for crap on Amazon and REI, play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup while waiting for a haircut, and send all the texts and make all the phone calls I want. If I run it over or fall overboard with it in my pocket I don't care. With the money I saved I bought the shittiest Garmin GPS available for about $100.00, which I can even use without a cell network. Sometimes my friends complain about the sound on my shitty phone, but I don't care.

Plus, I stare at a computer all fucking day, I know all I need to know about programming for at least the next five years of stateworker career, and I would FAR rather read a print book, go for a sailboat ride, have a dinner party, or dig some vegetables than spend another f-ing second computing even with a really nice screen.

Oh -- I write this on a 12 year old macbook running FreeBSD, which I used for my dissertation, from ~2000 lines of Octave matrix code to typing it up in Lyx/ Latex. Works far better than any new Windows piece of crap for actual computing, isn't occupying space in a landfill, and I have money left over to buy rain gear and boots for getting outside.

It's not shit -- it's manure...
You mean 180 channels, where 160-170 are just absolute trash?

So you're really paying $65 bucks for 10-20 channels at best. Not much of a deal there.

I'm very welcome to this pick what you want idea. I'm ready for cable to die as a cord cutter.
I started with grunt, then moved to gulp because I like the plugin support more and it felt less magical to me.

Then, I found that working with many different projects, gulp wasn't DRY enough for me. I kept copying any pasting my tasks across projects and forgetting to go back and improve them as I went. I also disliked the chain of require statements and devDependencies in my package.json. I was spending too much time coding my build.

So, I started a project [1] to move gulp tasks into re-usable functions and hide the devDependencies. Now I'm pretty happy with the result, my gulpfile [2] is now mostly configuration and very little code.

[1] https://github.com/lookfirst/gulp-helpers/

[2] https://github.com/lookfirst/systemjs-seed/blob/master/gulpf...
I was hoping the challenges would include machine learning. There is so much exciting overlap between ML and security. From detecting intrusion attempts to scraping and processing pastebins.

I think it is amazing what you guys did here: you got more points on a give me your e-mail, we are building something post, than Stripe got when announcing their company. Really speaks volume on Patio's writing.

Will there also be marketing challenges? Like: Every day patio11 clicks on one email. Your task is to write an engaging headline. Or: Here is some Google Analytics code. Make it show 50.000 visits any way you can. Very hard to cheat. (But so is getting Google security to file a bug report).

I really enjoyed the comments. Especially the ipod-hasnt-got-wifi criticism. You guys must know that what you are doing is terrible and you should feel bad.

Who knew decoding morse in some wave extracted from a corrupted image file in Cicada 3301 could also lead to a job. Will there be an ARG element to the CTF's? Like you pose as an agent from the NSA or something?
I don't deny group injustice. I don't believe injustice based on group membership is worse than any other kind - slavery is an injustice even if it's equal opportunity. Insofar as having bad schools or bad parents is not an injustice, it's also not an injustice if some group has more of them than another.

And insofar as such a thing is an injustice, the fact that it's correlated with some group is irrelevant to me.

If the only way power can be measured is via outcomes (in this case, I guess a high developer salary?), then I'm not sure why we need a new word to describe it. I also don't get what your point is. I guess you are arguing that smart people don't "deserve" the money/control that comes with a developer job any more than dumb people, and therefore starfighter is a bad thing?
Smart Luggage for the Connected Age
> a bit sensationalist

VERY sensationalist.

If anything, this will simply augment the app experience for the end user. The sky is not falling.
Chilli con carne
The Best Cheaper Smartphones: Fewer Features, but Not by Much
A Beginners Guide to Big O Notation
FeedPress expands RSS analytics service into podcast hosting
I no longer buy a SIM for my iPhone when I go abroad, I buy a SIM for my Mifi device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiFi - the one I have is a bit smaller than a Nokia 8210 used to be and weighs nothing.
Plants can often fend for themselves once they are big enough, but the seeds have to be protected until then.
I concur. Back in 2006-2008, AdWords was incredibly effective for my company, then the leads gradually dried up, and after a while we realized it provided nothing useful anymore, unless you buy incredibly expensive keywords (up to several dollars per click).

It may still be effective for pure consumer-oriented services, but is IMO useless nowadays for B2B unless you're a large, deep-pocketed company.
I tried to do one better with a small flyback transformer.

https://gfycat.com/GlaringGrimCondor

Turns out there's not enough clearance in USB ports for tens of thousands of volts.
I also brew upside down, and I do get foam. But this is the same type of foam that you get with a french press. I think the difference is that this foam is caused by heat, while a good crema is caused by the pressure. It certainly tastes and looks different.
It's on the way. The performance and feature gap between VMWare and Virtualbox is widening everyday.
Yeah, and randomly hitting people in the head with a bat is a great way to increase concussion awareness, right?
Twitter Opens Hong Kong Office to Make Money in China
I think you may want to take a look at TTFP book by Simon Thompson: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/TTFP/
Thanks for the tip! Learned something new.
Personally, its not just liberal arts courses that add to a value education, but other technical courses as well. Just because i want to be a developer doesn't mean I don't want to study Calculus or linear algebra or differential equations or Accounting principles in college. (these were all courses in my CS degree). Even if we stick to CS, I don't think one can truly cover everything in 2 years. I haven't checked the curriculum of this program yet, but I'd like CS colleges to delve into subjects like data structures, automata, compiler construction, OS, Database internals (not just queries), Concurrent programming, etc. Yes, I may not need all of this to write a Web app, but these are things that I believe make a more well-rounded developer
Nope.

It means HBO will be getting money exclusively from Apple users. Everyone else will be getting the service for free.
<nikcub> is certainly right about the dangers of raising venture capital as a media company. Few news organizations generate outsize returns.

In terms of companies sold, there's also CNET, which was sold for $1.8B to CBS in 2008. That was after an operating loss of $6M in 1Q 2008.
This one got an exception: http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7047-14
Using a usb rubber ducky to take over their computer and write an email to yourself, saying something to the effect that "I was stupid and plugged a random usb key into my work machine" would be much better.
The worst suggestion in the world: make one of these look like one of those USB dead-drops.
The problem is that if you say "fast, cheap, reliable, pick two" people will pick "fast" and "cheap". Even people who might ordinarily worry about whether their workstation is silently corrupting their data.
This is what we are trying to solve. Using automated tool you know that "your site is painting slow or loading slow". But "Why" is something that is still missing in such tools.
http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-7.0.html
> Better they plug in a bad device you control vs one carrying a truly malicious payload.

In this case the bad device you control is a truly malicious payload whose damage can be measured in dollars.
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I wonder how GlusterFS would perform in this case. Replicated volumes with one or more local nodes for the most likely failover requirement, with async-georeplication in case the building burned down.
I would like to see this device on kickstarter :)
You can get Nokia Lumias for really cheap too, and they're very nice to use.
Is there any chance this could be dangerous to the human and not just his device?
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Reminds me of one my favorite "Bastard Operator From Hell" stories: http://www.chinet.com/html/bofh/tradeshow.html

Turns out this is a very old idea. :-)
How to insert stylesheet in Rails?
It will help, two bit errors are not corrected, though. The system will be rebooted and and an error should be logged.