skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think instead of trying to criticize government programs that only take 3% of federal taxes and provide us a safety net, how about we look at programs that take up 40% of our taxes and are bloated as hell and full of dirty kickbacks and lobbying...like the freakin defense industry...There might be some bloat we could cut there, like the fact that we have more aircraft carriers than the ENTIRE rest of the world combined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_by_co...

It's like a magicians trick. Look at this hand while the other hand is robbing us blind.
I was looking at my certificate chain and I noticed that the root certificate uses SHA1. Any ideas if this will affect the root certificate? I'm using AddTrust External CA Root.

Right now in Chrome 41, the https:// portion of the URL is green.
One thing that I don't understand is why Mongrel2 didn't really took off in the webserver world. It seems a complete product and the concept behind it is very nice.

Plus, it doesn't need any external module to work with a specific language, given that ZeroMQ is used to communicate with the backend.
Why GitHub Import instead of clonning?
I think this is a few years old. I remember seeing it before.
Not extortion. Free speech.
Freedom of speech means the freedom to criticize. As long as hate sites make clear that they are not affiliated with the thing they criticize, let them say what they want. If it's false information, sue them for libel. If it's true, get your shit together.
I once got a spam message like this about a repository that i _starred_. I made no commits, opened no issues, just starred!
"This executive order has nothing to do with domestic law enforcement"

This is just not true.

As the article points out, Section 1(ii)(B) has absolutely no provision requiring activity to be outside of the United States. Read it through:

Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

(ii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State:

(B) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of, any activity described in subsections (a)(i) or (a)(ii)(A) of this section or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order;

Look closely at this part of (B):

to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of, any activity described in subsections (a)(i) or (a)(ii)(A) of this section

The requirement is only to assist, sponsor, or provide support to someone described in (a)(i) or (a)(ii)(A), which describe people who are "in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States."

What it does NOT say is that the person providing that support must also be outside of the United States. That's what the EFF article is talking about.
It seemed like stories that get submitted and then take a couple of hours to start getting votes are the result of one person with an RSS feed / notifications from the posted site, then people submitting the story after it hits social media thus upvoting the original submission.
Beep.js really isn't a synthesizer, it's more of a step-sequencer. You might want to check out WAD.js, which is more concerned with synthesizing sounds than scheduling them (it has filters, LFOs, other effects, etc). https://github.com/rserota/wad.
Full disclosure, I wrote WAD.js.

and btw it's totally possible to make well-timed music with web-audio. I've got a midi keyboard hooked up to web-audio based looper, and that's what I use as my primary instrument these days for practicing. It works fine for me.
Note: SHA-1-based signatures for trusted root certificates are not a problem because TLS clients trust them by their identity, rather than by the signature of their hash.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.be/2014/09/gradually-su...
Should you read Shakespeare? Yes.
I was a little confused based on your report of MD compared to my home state. I googled and it turns out MD is pretty normal after all.

When you apprentice you sign a contract stating what you'll be paid as you learn and attend classes. In my state the union rate is a bit over $30/hr and the legal contract for apprentices over the course of their 4 years (same as in MD) must average at least 60% of union rate. Usually it progresses somewhat steeply over those four years. Doctors tend not to be cash flow positive for a little while... electricians are cash flow positive after a month or so (need to pay for tools, etc)

You can't work as an electrician for those 4 years without being directly (like in sight) supervised by a master electrician. Its like being a student, although you're getting paid rather than paying for it. I think the closest doctor analogy to electrician apprenticeship would be "internship year"

After your 4 year contract is up you get a journeymans card, and can work by yourself without a master directly supervising you. Not 7 years, not even in MD. Very controversially some states allow journeymen to act as mini-masters supervising a small number of unlicensed workers (like 1, although I've heard as many as 3 depending on state) with the assumption they'll be grunt labor. Your boss will remain a master electrician. I think a pretty good doctor analogy would be "resident years"

After a couple years you can test for master, and if you make it, you'll be able to supervise and train your own small herd of apprentices and generally get paid a bit more than a journeyman. Also bonding and insurance and licenses and permits are only possible if you're a master. If you're smart enough to become a master there is really no downside to becoming one. I think the closest medical analogy to a master electrician is "hospital administrator" or maybe "department head" or "private practice"

An apprentice sits in a truck owned by a master with the master physically in the drivers seat next to him, a journeyman sits in a truck owned by the master with a fairly traditional somewhat distant supervisory relationship with his boss who is a master, and a master owns trucks and probably has some combination of journeymen working for him and noob apprentices learning from him. There are plenty of master electricians who don't have employees, but you need to be a master to have employees.

One of my army buddies got out, got a philosophy degree, eventually became a master electrician and we occasionally talk (also out of politeness he doesn't ask me to fix computers and I don't ask him to wire things). I always kinda wondered which of us made the right choices. Obviously he's richer than I am and has a more stable working environment and will have a far wealthier retirement than I will, but I am safer and healthier at my desk (or ... am I?)
There was a very good critique of K&R in Learn C the Hard Way that got taken down because of (IMO) undue backlash.

The gist of it was that K&R ignores the safety problems in C and there is no discussion of the habits/constructs seasoned C programmers have developed to make sure their code is safe. Of course, many of those habits were developed after K&R, but that's why we need revisions and new sources.

In its place, Zed Shaw (the author), updated Learn C the Hard Way to concentrate on using C safely -- it is an awesome way for a newbie to learn C. Even if you don't agree (and want to use K&R), read this alongside it.

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
A public domain dedication, like that of SQLite, is the least restrictive and simplest option.
I love WebGL and 3D graphics and particles, and love seeing WebGL becoming ubiquitous (when I first played with it I had to download a nightly of Firefox). But it's really hard to come up with a business use case that justifies using WebGL in say, a marketing product, or an online marketplace.
It shouldn't matter whether Section 1(ii)(B) restricts itself to foreign actors, because the underlying law that animates this executive order, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702) is limited to foreign transactions. In fact: it's kind of weird that they'd even raise the question. Fundamentally, the President can't make new laws, and they know that. He's exercising powers that Congress delegated to him, and he is limited by the scope of that delegation.
Actually, no. The same federal agents that stole large sums of Bitcoin from Silk Road also seem to have tried to frame DPR for murder.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2015/03/31/force-and-...
I did not hear about the Burmese python strangling the 2 year-old...

As a father of a 20 month old, this might be the most traumatized I've ever been by news story.

Edit: Thanks a ton for the links to the other dead kid stories.
I don't think WebGL is hacky if you approach it right.

We have 100,000 users who have created +180,000 scenes using advanced WebGL and it is really stable: http://clara.io.

Here is a new demo scene I've been working on. PBR materials (w/ clear coat), area lights, HDR, bloom, DOF and FXAA:

https://clara.io/view/d3b82831-d56b-462f-b30c-500ea1c7f870/w...

And you can edit any part of the mesh or materials or animation or lighting in our editor.
> The only thing dangerous about salt is table salt that is bleached and has chemicals added. If you can get good salts like himalayan pink salt and celtic sea salt, you are in the money.

You're mixing paranoias here. Pink/sea salt differ from table salt primarily in that they have more chemicals - that's what gives them more color/flavor. If you're concerned with the iodine supplementation, enjoy your goiter...

Fearmongering about bleach in salt is a little weird considering its chemical formula is NaClO and its primary component is used to make your tap water safe to drink. When used, it degrades to water and salt as the oxygen pops off to oxidize impurities.
What you described is basically slackware. If you install the whole image (roughly 6 gb) you get a working desktop machine that's easy to keep up to date (just run slackpkg update once in a while). Yet when it comes to tweaking, it's easy, because everything is a shell script or text file, no binary blobs of weird file formats. It actually reminds me a lot of FreeBSD.
Uber absolves itself of Delhi rape driver responsibility
It doesn't matter what the executive order says. It has to invoke laws passed by Congress that provide the President with the authority to do anything. In this case, that law is the IEEPA. Read 50 U.S.C. 1702. He is limited to foreign transactions.

Executive orders are part of the federal rulemaking process. Rulemaking fills in the blanks left deliberately by Congress. Whether or not the President can use a national emergency to interfere with domestic financial transactions is not a blank Congress appears to have left in the IEEPA.
It is available on all new Android and iOS devices. And it mostly works (although less so iOS devices.)
For the record Palantir doesn't do any data collection or analysis on other people's data - which is what the NSA does (collection and analysis).

Palantir simply makes overpriced software for groups to do complex network mapping and connection extraction from raw data - other companies then do analysis with on their own data sets with the software.
This is probably a rather unpopular position among web developers, but please don't let your desire for the new and shiny get in the way of making the content on your site widely accessible. I've seen quite a few sites turned from simple and easily readable to complex, slow-loading and irritatingly gimmicky because the developers felt like putting in all the bells and whistles they could.
Inside the $1B business of erotic massage parlors
How we organize GitHub issues: A simple styleguide for tagging
I use arch for few years already and I've found out that actually one does not need to make any tweaks - in 99% of cases, just install the package you want and it just works. The only thing I've replaced is font rendering pipeline -- I use the outstandingly beautiful bohoomil's repository[0].

And that's it, everything else is right there.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality#Custom_repos...
I strongly recommend Learn C the Hard Way
http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

You'll get a modern approach to C programming and it had great exercises.
Three.js – JavaScript 3D library
Isn't that the nature of a group - it needs to have boundaries that define it both the positive and negative sense (eg. people in our group support X and don't support Y). Otherwise the group or culture has no boundary and therefore includes everyone and cannot be considered a subset.
To me Peter only speaks from a founder/company perspective. He doesn't really talk too much about the general economy or what's preferable for consumers. Most confusion comes from applying his thoughts beyond the scope of what he's talking about - startups.

And personally, Peter is just very likable. I'm always happy to listen to him talk even when I know what he's gonna say.
It expires in June, which means it's not affected (must have an expiration after 1/1/2016 for a warning)

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.be/2014/09/gradually-su...
few things that do not completely address your points, but may help

- python 3 (.5?) is adding the @ operator for matrix multiply. Of course this only helps you if your company uses python3

- There are 2 packages (seaborn, ggplot(clone)) which sit on top of matplotlib and provide a much nicer interface for statistical plots
The copilot specifically researched and exploited a weakness in EU cockpit access controls. It is good that they have adopted US style protocols but sadly a little too late.
I'm with you. This is user error, plain and simple. At least you had a backup. "Thanks, Apple" indeed.
36 to Love: Gorgeous Android and iOS apps based on the 36 questions to love
Learn how to juggle/poi/fire breathe/wrestle or other skill that you've wanted to do?

Volunteer!
There should be plenty of places to help out, soup kitchens, make spaces, dog shelters, charity shops, etc.

Alternatively you could write that program/game/app you've always wanted to write :-)
> The only thing dangerous about salt is table salt that is bleached and has chemicals added.

> Salt is the most efficient nutrient for the body.

Are both pretty strong claims. Do you have anything other than your cramping anecdote to back that up?
>It is why our original system required courts and warrants, checks and balances.

The problem is that current technology allows the government to hide behind 'you have no proof we did anything wrong' and 'state secret' defenses. Maybe a system that makes it clear when communications are being monitored, but the government is going to oppose that as much as a system that can't be monitored.

Also, there are few other considerations:

No foreign company is going to kick in your door, but they would be willing to hack your computer/listen to your chatter in an attempt to steal company secrets. Any weak point for the government is a weak point for all others.

Also, government is made up of some individuals that I do not want anywhere near any backdoors of my systems. Not to say everyone in government is incompetent.

Maybe they are if you are head of R&D for some massive project, at which point you would be taking extra precautions.
Yes, good idea. But the ground control should then supervise the AI of the aircraft and takes over control if needed. Otherwise a sensor defects could have consequences, like Lufthansa Flight 1829.
I'd strongly advise people to read K&R C as maybe their second or third book and mostly for historical purposes and not because it's particularly great for learning the language. The exercises are quite fun, however.

You will be better served by reading a more recent (C99) and carefully considered book such as K.N. King's C Programming: A Modern Approach.
Editable WebGL Car with post processing effects
the extortion part is heightened by the registrar for .sucks where it is asking organizations who own the trademark to pay 2500/yr to get a domain name
I have a free SHA-1 signed cert from StartSSL that only expires in June 2015. The rest of the chain is SHA-256 signed (at least this is what Chrome tells me). Will a cert in these conditions start showing a red lock with the next version of Chrome? If yes, is there a way I can reissue the StartSSL certificate with SHA-256 signing, without having to pay? A quick Google search tells me there isn't.

I'm anxiously waiting for Let's Encrypt to launch, as StartCom is kinda shady with the free cert thing (remember what happened with Heartbleed WRT revoking?). Until then, I begin to wonder if it wouldn't be best to (ugh) disable HTTPS for Chrome 42+ users, since most people will perceive a red lock thing on their status bar as "less secure" than the "silently gray" HTTP (even if technically, that's obviously not the case). If Google decides SHA-1 is so bad that it deserves being visibly marked as insecure, then why don't they also show a red cross on HTTP sites?

EDIT: oops, missed the "valid past 2015" part. My question is still valid, isn't insecure HTTP more deserving of a red cross than SHA-1 certs that expire in, say, 2016?
My understanding is that if the cert is valid for less that three months, it's still marked as OK for now. That cert is valid for 3/19/15-6/16/15.
Republicans aren't wrong in thinking that there are people out there abusing the system. The question is, though, how much should we care? Food stamps help a lot of people.
I've "struggled" with depression most of my life. I say that in quotes, because for a long time I didn't realize that was the case, I just thought I was an asshole.

Some years ago I had a Facebook account. I finally had to close it, because it made me feel bad. Not because I didn't measure up to other peoples' lives, like in the article, but because the parts I saw were so vacuous.

Note, I'm not at all disagreeing with FB as a way to improve your depression, or with the value people find in FB generally. Just we're all different.

Also, to anyone struggling with depression (even if you don't realize it), I recently got help with depression explicitly, and on purpose, and it's improved my life immensely. If life sucks and you can't quite see why, talk to a professional and explore your options. Because even when you have problems and obstacles (which I do), life is great when it doesn't suck.
Root certificates are not affected.
https://github.com/helmuthdu/aui Though, I can't vouch for quality of this, I don't use it
Princeton's CS50 course on edx.org covers C and recommends other good books like Hacker's Delight.

This is also a good presentation for safer C programs https://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/172.en.html
Steak and seafood is not the issue; It's junk food. But junk food won't get banned because the manufactures benefit from the very same farm subsidy program (corn crop subsidies).
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but anime is not real.
I'd always rather work with someone who ships over someone who's technically brilliant

Lets define what ships means then. Does that mean that they are just really good at debugging so that the limited features you do have don't break? Does it mean they know how to distill exactly the use cases needed so that you don't develop more than necessary?

I can think of many ways to ship something that is incomplete, but that doesn't mean it's worth anything so I am curious about this statement.
So what? The pilot is still in the position to commit mass murder. Just grab the other person by the throat, choke them for a few seconds then throw them outside the cockpit and lock the door. You're about to kill 300 hundred people and you're going to let one person stop you? What kind of psychopath are you?

Don't some pilots carry guns?

100 ways to kill someone with a ballpoint pen?

http://www.al-vimh.net/2011/05/100-ways-to-kill-with-a-ballp...
K&R is a great book however I feel there are better books these days. My two personal recommendations are C Programming A Modern Approach by K N King (2nd edition) and Programming in C by Kochan.

However the exercises in K&R are excellent so make sure you do them all. Actually the cost of K&R is justified just for the exercises IMHO.

Also get Understanding and Using C Pointers by Richard Reese, it is a must have.

Two other books I very much enjoyed are Head First C and 21st Century C (2nd edition). Head First has some nice "extra" bits like threads and networking in C. 21st Century C explains sensible, modern ways to do things in C and, more importantly, things you should NEVER do in C!
I don't see anything more.. Are you talking about the readability level report?
>>How could something as simple as salt stymie scientists for so long?

The human body has numerous overlapping pathways for salt regulation. Salt (sodium chloride) plays a major role in the osmolality (electrolyte concentration) of blood. A drop in the sodium concentration results in the release of renin, which causes changes in vascular constriction, sympathetic activity, and sodium reabsorption itself.

This seems like a great research question for systems biology, although it would require some detailed modeling.
How  to Avoid Content Fatigue
a case of a few bad apples spoiling the whole bunch

If people can do something selfish that causes problems for others, a small fraction of them will. If the problem is big and self-replicating enough, you end up with this.
Great points! I added some of them to AgreeList [1].

For example on [2] you can see that Richard Branson also agrees on the advice "trust your gut".

[1] http://www.agreelist.com/talkingquickly

[2] http://www.agreelist.com/s/listen-to-others-but-go-with-your...
A suggestion: I would prefer to not have to scroll the code horizontally. C++ tends to be verbose, and so benefits from a wider window/view. Maybe place the intent and description below the sample code?
I'm very confused. I'm on Chrome 41, which shows the XKCD page (https://xkcd.com/) with no lock and the blurb about outdated security settings. I installed Chrome Canary, which is on version 44, and I was expecting the red X. But instead I'm getting a green lock and no warning message. What's up with that? Is this code not deployed to Canary yet?

Edit: installing version 42 does show the red lock, so I guess it's a Canary issue.