skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds very good, except for four ominous words in the article: "declares a national emergency". If I understand correctly (and I could well be wrong), in a national emergency, the president can (temporarily, theoretically) assume powers that neither Congress nor the Constitution gives him. Lincoln did this, briefly, during the Civil War.

The article doesn't give any more detail on the "national emergency". But I worry that it could be a "get out of jail free" card for the president to do more than Congress authorized in the IEEPA.

Does anyone know enough to shed some light here?
seenbefore.com - no idea, was my last startup idea

sawbefore.com	- variant above

seenitbefore.com - variant above
Do you know how this plays out in mixed race people? This is a question that no doctor has ever given me a straight answer for. If I have an african-american father and a european mother, do I need to worry about this?

Also, what about people who have a single grandparent who is African-American. Does this kind of thing apply to them?
Great site and initiative indeed.

However can you make the indent to 2 or 3 char? 8 is too luxury in a web-browser these days.

Openstack has a different way to show comments and the code in parallel, the color does not match the text somehow, but it's another way to do it.

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/stack.sh.html
Thinkpad X1 Carbon - I love this thing.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...
Unfortunately, tags are inadequate when we're dealing with possibly mutually exclusive classifications.
"Herman the German" started out as an apprentice in an auto repair shop, and learned that horse manure would stop radiator leaks. Decades later, a leak in the GE turbine test facility was causing lots of problems, and he fixed it right up with, you guessed it!

If you like practical engineering, it really is a great read.
These days sqrt and rsqrt are so cheap that they aren't a worthwhile optimization target. You're much better off optimizing cache usage.
Author of the embedded tweet here. I'd like to clarify, since my tweet was vaguely imprecise and this post sadly got it wrong.

The official timeline is on Google Online Security blog [1]. BUT you have to replace "41" with "42" [2].

SO, what changes? From version 42, the current "beta", which according to schedule [3] should become "stable" in a week on the 14th:

- certs that expire in 2016 will be yellow

- certs that expire after 2016 (like xkcd's) will be red

Nothing else will change after 42, and Firefox will follow next year [4]. Certs expiring in 2015 are fine.

Also note that this only affects the lock icon and "https" color, there will be no warning screen AND no connection will be blocked.

EDIT: thanks to the author for amending.

[1]: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/gradually...

[2]: https://twitter.com/sleevi_/status/585429689646260224

[3]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uv_dNkPVlDFG1kaImq7d...

[4]: https://twitter.com/sleevi_/status/585429901848608769
Actually, also the fact that he selected this particular packet exchange. This is a bit more suspicious, since there are thousands of other possible packet sequences. But again, the initial TLS handshake would be one of the first ones to check, I think.
I don't know much about Finnish summers, but I don't imagine they get too warm
"What Happened To Finding The Best Person For The Job!?"

It never existed. Study after study has shown the gender and race implied by your resume massively impacts the chance of you getting a callback.
In the cloud, development will be never-ending
I fly these things on (almost) daily basis, and I'm not too crazy about this. As long as they keep flying, it's all right. But sometimes you have to intervene as a pilot, and 'gettin rid of difficult controls' is the last thing you need.

DJI did a great thing with the Phantom, in terms of making the hobby accessible. They also did a great job selling multirotors to complete tools who fly these things irresposibly, possibly ruining the hobby for everyone in the future. I'm afraid that when you don't even need the most elementary skills to fly a UAV, this will become a problem even faster.

Besides that, i'm not touching anything UAV-related that can be controlled over wifi.
Not sure. One does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in one's travels on a public street. Anyone (including police) can follow you, record where you go, photograph you, etc.

When it comes to large-scale, untargeted, collection and retention by traffic cameras, etc. then it may come into the realm of what is "reasonable."
You are right because we love blaming factors beyond our control It helps us sleep better at night!
Testing Like a True Green Droid
I agree. Beyond the preference aspect there's definitely a notion of using the right tool for the job - and in an unfamiliar codebase (e.g. one that relies on a heavy framework like Django filled with thousands of lines of code I've never seen), as I mentioned before an IDE can be of significant benefit. That said, once one has grokked the framework to a fair degree, I would imagine that continuing benefit (in that respect) would be quite limited.
Very much agree with it. Facebook is essentially a giant advertising machine, a friend advertising to other friends how great his life is (maybe not intentionally but still advertising). Browse through it long enough and often enough and you begin to feel envious of other friends.
Any first-person accounts to support "Linear growth can be worse than no growth"? Seems like something important, but not quite clear; a couple of real world examples would really help.
Anyone know any decent tiling window managers for windows os? I found bug.n which uses ahk, but it just left me longing for i3.
Is a modifier key possible? E.g. holding down shift allows you to select all text? Or a context-menu option on the unselectable text to copy the whole block? Excuse my naiveté.
Yes, Jones avoided the hard fourth amendment issues and said, if the government _physically_ places a tracker on your, that is definitely a search.

Even in the absence of a trespass, however, Supreme Court precedence recognizes a search when the government violates a subjective expectation of privacy that society recognizes as reasonable.

So, if the Government monitors your location by enlisting factory or owner-installed vehicle tracking devices or GPS-enabled smartphones, that could well be a search, but it's still a fuzzy and undecided area of the law.

Sotomayor's concurring opinion in U.S. v. Jones is well worth a read if you are interested in this sort of thing.
> especially the "too much is bad for you" rant at 2m00s.

It's also pretty futile. The point is not that a theoretical excessive quantity of something does you significant damage, the point is whether or not you are exposing yourself to that amount now, and/or enough people are for it to be a public health problem. You could make the same rant about being obese, or about hardly moving throughout the day.

That is especially relevant when you have food companies engineering their products to be as pleasurable as possible, without reference to the health consequences - see the enormous amount of sugar in ready meals, or the introduction of trans fats previously.

Of course, that doesn't mean we actually can tell what is good and what is bad for you, or what doesn't matter either way, which is the point of Goldacre's statement.
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First, this is about scalability of your application and not your data analysis. If your application itself has a lot of writes, it may require to shard your SQL database. That may be easier using NoSQL.

Also, NoSQL has advantages other than scalability. RethinkDB has a more pleasant query language (arguably), shamelessness (meaning it is easy to add a column), build-in ui, ...
I've been wondering when such a thing would take hold. If we end up with applications amenable to homomorphic encryption, this could be more viable. It could also lead to further changes in the relative economic power of cold regions where electricity is cheap.
I agree with the basic sentiment expressed here. I don't currently have a TV subscription but am looking into getting one to watch the local news, HBO and some basketball and hockey.

The current streaming services don't seem to be very competitive comparatively, with a basketball/hockey streams charging $150 per year each alone for what could be a low quality, spotty service.

I hope streaming drastically improves in the near future. It's pretty frustrating to want a relatively small set of programming and yet be forced to pay for tens of channels you'll never look at through basic cable + add on premium packages.

With that being said, I did see something recently about cable changing here in Canada soon to cap basic cable at $25 per month and other channels have to be available separately and not in packages, which could make streaming even less competitive.
The whole concept of the IEEPA is to define the scope of powers the President has when he declares a national emergency.

The history of the IEEPA was that before it was passed in the 1970s, Congress felt like there were not enough controls on the President's emergency powers. So we're discussing a delegation of power designed for exactly the circumstance you're talking about.

The concern that the President could claim extralegal powers in an "emergency" is legitimate, but you can't reasonably point to a case where he's working within the narrow guidelines established by Congress specifically to avoid that outcome as evidence that that's happening.
Why does enterprise software look so bad?
It will make a good 'lessons learned' blog post later.
It's a very similar argument to one of the government's excuses for censoring collections of publicly available information -- sure, you COULD find all the stuff you need to build a nuke at the library and the internet and on microfilm, but it's really hard to do. Pulling that data together and selling it as an ebook makes it a much bigger concern.

I'm not saying I agree with the whole "mosaic" definition of things, but I think the point is worth pondering: Sometimes the information itself isn't the point of contention, it's how the information is aggregated.
Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious (1994) [pdf]
There's also a difference between a really good programmer just starting in a new language and a really bad programmer having 10 years of experience in the language. I'll take the former, please.

But really, it's a false dichotomy. No good developer would choose to start a new project in earnest in a new language they don't understand well. They might enter a team that is using a language they don't know yet, and that is what "any good developer can learn a new language quickly" is about.

That's all any of this boils down to: are you working with intelligent, thoughtful people who know how to get work done, or are you working with losers? Every. Single. God damn. Tired. Argument. Good people or losers? That X vs. Y technologies "worked" is not data that X is better than Y, it's data that your team is not comprised nearly completely of losers.
Advice is a good one on here.
I would phrase as:
"The vector sum of startup advice is 0 - choose carefully and quickly"
So, an ISP that makes a deal with a content provider to host a server caching the content provider's data on their network, specifically to improve bandwidth and reduce transit costs, should not be allowed to pass on that savings to the customer, and should instead be forced to pocket it all themselves?
I don't get how that's still not open to alot of negotiation by a different name

best I can tell, you're pay appears to be based on the "Be
Even More Awesome Chart" (page 5 http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/Stack-Excha...)

who determine where exactly you stand on that chart?

seems like you're incentivized to lobby hard that you're guru level instead of just awesome level, etc etc
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Kindle vs. Kobo: The Future of Reading
Hi all, Original Author of the article here - glad to see so much interest and discussion of this topic.

There are a few threads going on here but the main one seems to be: Should we care about "privacy" of information available in public, and if so, how do we set rules (Given that it's in public)?

I think the answer to the first question is undoubtedly yes because of the way technology is advancing. Yes, we've always been able to see people in public, but we've never been able to do it in a rapid automated fashion on a mass scale, or catalog and query natiowide databases. This creates new implications for privacy. In the past the government simply didn't have the resources to know exactly what religious ceremonies, political meetings, protests every American was going to. Now they do.

This may mean an expansion of 4th Amendment protections (@sharemywin mentioned the idea of a new amendment, but I think this is exactly what the 4th Amendment is for). In Jones the Supreme Court said you can't attach GPS devices to cars without a warrant, and 5 Justices said we may need this type of protection for location data generally. Since then many lower courts have applied this protection to location data generated from cell phones (even public locations), which I think is correct.

As far as setting a standard, I think the best approach is to require 4th Amendment protections for location data generated from an electronic source/device. This is what a number of states have been doing to address demands for cell phone location data and police use of stringrays. It also directly goes to the issue that electronic devices are given government unprecedented power to record, store, and query our location data, which makes that data more sensitive and suseptible to abuse.
Until 1990, it used to be that the mobile phone networks in the UK were not allowed to have a relationship with the retail customers on their network, instead with the billing and account management performed by a range of third parties.
I'm one of the developers of this project. If you have any questions, let me know.

To be clear, this project isn't endorsed in any way by Open Whisper Systems. We forked their codebase pre-v2.7.0 and are integrating upstream commits, but that's it.

The idea isn't to compete with TextSecure, it's to provide the encrypted SMS functionality TextSecure used to (with all it's compromises and drawbacks) for people that push-based messaging isn't an option for.
Functional programming and memory management
Thanks!

Do you know how this would perform with Linux?
ASUS Zenbook UX305FA-ASM1 13.3-Inch Ultra-Slim Aluminum Laptop, 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD
Agreed.

I'd say "You can pick up 90% of any language or planform in a few weeks." That last 10% though is some edge-case/deep understanding that you won't even know about until you really need it (and it's probably shown up in production).
I note it uses version 1.2.0 of the libvpx library.

VP9 was first released in version 1.3 and even then the release notes state:

"2013-11-15 v1.3.0 "Forest"
This release introduces the VP9 codec [...]
The VP9 encoder in this release is not feature complete. Users interested in the encoder are advised to use the git master branch and discuss issues on libvpx mailing lists."

Seems odd that people were so keen to evaluate VP9 before it was actually released, and now that it's actually out and served in the tens of billions on Youtube no one is interested in publishing their findings on the actual production code. Has anyone got links to more recent results?
http://www.happyfatboydog.com/

just thought it was a funny combination of words. no intended idea here except maybe a trolly site for my close friends.
Most cars today do have RFID

It's in the tires and broadcasts the VIN

Part of the TPMS tire pressure monitoring.
go0gl3.com -- parody, hacker info, or some service
This Is What Periscope Does Right
How about a reverse response? Build a dash cam which watches plates & logs metadata, possibly even crowdsourcing the info. Outrageous? no different from what DHS would do. Leverage that outrage to get license plates dumped entirely.
On a related note, I sure wish git supported labels for commits. As it stands I have started to use github-style labels in commit messages, e.g. `:bug:`, which is nice in that github will render these with icons, if supported. Unfortunately that don't have icons for many of the labels one would want to use. I've asked github a half-dozen times to add them, but to no avail :-(
If simulation were perfect, no one would need real flying hours for licensure or type qualification.
>Does anyone know of any other cases in which the price of buying a domain is dependent on who the buyer is?

No, but that's because domain names have, until now, been closely held and (relatively) heavily regulated compared to other products.

There are plenty of products where the cost varies based on the purchaser's ability to pay, or their expected use. In the realm of public discourse, newspapers and other publications have long had sections where anyone could write political or other opinions for free, even while they sold ad space to commercial interests for large amounts.
I get your point of view. My hypothesis for this behaviour, or part of the reason for the behaviour, is that I think the education system has traditionally been geared to teaching about SQL systems over their NoSQL counter-parts. This creates developers with strong opinions of one, without necessarily having a sound understanding of the other(s).

The people who cause pain in your organisation are almost definitely committing a logical fallacy - see [https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/]
In the class, where will the sites be hosted? AWS? Bluehost?
I want to chime in and also show my agreement with that statement. I've observed from my own deppressive behaviour that Facebook is just one of many go-to things. For instance, when I found an interesting show I haven't watched, I wouldn't even think of browsing Facebook (or HN) - I'd shift between my job and watching the series.
Good to see a complaint about NoSQL that is at least targeted in a reasonable direction. Personally I see a lot of success coming from flexible document schemas but obviously it's not perfect for every app.

What did you think about Domino replication?
Plus the API is rock solid. I've been using my current config for about 4 years now (with 0.10 and 0.11) and things just worked. I remember the hellish experiences I had each time awesome was updated...
It was moved from Workshop Cafe, it's now at 2415 Mission St. housed within "Nakamoto's", a Bitcoin-only store. They actually have two there now. http://nakamotos.io/
"It's like Dell renaming itself to "Microsoft SRL" and then selling "Windows 9000" to beat MS on the version number train."

Not really. It would be more like Dell splitting into two companies, one for hardware one for software, and then later not really getting along and fighting over the name.
XNomad is an xmonad equivalent for OSX: https://github.com/fjolnir/xnomad

I made this fork of an actual project in the hopes that this joke would one day become relevant... unfortunately I'm not that juvenile anymore so now it just sort of feels stupid: https://github.com/ranman/xgonads
Go-latest: Check version is latest or not from various remote sources in Golang
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> push for universal encryption.

Where, who, and why?

http://xkcd.com/927/

Right?

Funny aside, I could see Gov't agencies pushing for it, but getting little traction any time soon.
Speaker here; slides are available at https://obsidian.systems/reflex-nyhug/
Ask HN: Is English in our app Elimi goofy or not? :)
Hi all. As we are not native speakers, I wanted kindly ask you to take a look at our mobile app Elimi (http://www.ElimiApp.com) and let me know if our English is goofy or not.

If you will see any error/not so perfect wording - please let me know in the comment. Thank you!

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I think banning one-liners is a good start.
"Why do you think it's been so widely adopted?

Torvalds: I think that many others had been frustrated by all the same issues that made me hate SCM's"

Actually, the adoption was caused by the network effect. It took off with a core group of Linux-involved developers promoting it religiously, then it went on like a fashion (we are git-wielders, we are cool), and ended up being the default choice for a lot of other projects that either depended on some degree on 3rd party git-managed modules, or wanted to benefit from the existing disciplined git-trained developers, or just... because (for all things being equal). Having this presumption that the adopters actually thought for themselves and Torvalds's brain-child got where it is now thanks to its own technical merits is a pleasant thought though.
Selling the Darpa Robotics Challenge
Most open-source licenses have a clause to prevent forks with the same name. It is in fact against GPL and Apache license to fork project under its original name.
I didn't even realize that "deep link" got a new meaning.
Extend Link syntax with CSS selectors (or something similar/lighter weight).

Although you then gain problem of people changing layout of content. Still a lot of content is pretty static.
adaptance.com — some sort of platform for something

articlefeedback.com — wanted to build a system for getting feedback about your writing, sort of crowdsourced editing

cureta.com — no idea

logicist.com — logic, or something

townless.com — for nomads, or some such

Used to have way more, but I've been culling them down the past few years.
I don't understand what the article is actually criticising. Today's "deep links" aren't really about the links at all - after all they're just URLs, nothing special there. No, today's deep links are about publishing those links in a way that allows 3rd parties to find them easily. So, if you're working in television for example, you might be interested in having a standardised way of publishing URLs in your program guide data, such that someone can access your catchup service directly from their television's program guide application, without having to first load your catchup application.

Or in another domain, Yelp might publish an "API" describing how to construct a URL for a restaurant, using eg the restaurant's name plus post code plus street name. It might look something like this: http://yelp.com/The_Olive_Tree/92100/Canal_St (I haven't looked, maybe Yelp really does do something like this....)

Knowing this, a mapping application can now open the Yelp page for a restaurant directly from inside the mapping app. Great! Or maybe you're a serious foodie - enough that you use a restaurant journal app. This app can automatically extract the Yelp data to round out your entry, or alternatively, post your thoughts on the restaurant. If there is a backend to this journalling app, it could even automatically insert deep links to your other journal entries so that other users can see what you thought about other restaurants. There is power in this idea, and it joins up with other ideas such as the semantic web. At any rate I personally see deep links as a positive development.
Misspelled reindeer FaaS, you mean.
We've removed the need for GCM since SMSSecure only deals with the SMS/MMS functionality.
Using WebPack with shims and polyfills
They are WordPress sites so it's easiest using any hosting service with cPanel, but it's host gator specifically in the class.
> no idea

> was my last startup idea

Those two are totally contradictory.
http://stratjacking.com

http://precisiongood.com

Not sure what I will do with either, if anything.
With systems like this in place do you really believe anonymity is even an achievable goal?