skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The author conflates abstract and immaterial.

How do you define "abstract" then? Looks like it's just a matter of degree, and one hacker's abstraction is another hacker's concreteness.
My good friend Bruno has graciously offered help with the development of Harvester OS! I am delighted.

I have considered various factors and decided on the following dev stack:

Dev Platform: OSX / Unix
Deploy: Web Application / iPhone App for v1 beta
Language: Java Script
Framework http://Meteor.js
Database: MongoDB
Servers: https://modulus.io/
Code repository: http://github.com
Project Management: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

Will make changes as we run into issues. I will publish a detailed blog on why this stack makes for Harvester OS along with our first private beta.

I am studying following tutorials. Built a simple to-do app tonight. I will be ready in 30 days to start working with senior designers to code

From code academy:
1. Learn: Make a Website
2. Learn: Make an Interactive Website
3. Learn: HTML & CSS
4. Learn: Javascript

5. Learn: Meteor: https://www.meteor.com/install
6. Learn: A Command Line Primer for Beginners - Lifehacker

Please advise for or against and suggest new. Thank you.
Now dart won't be in browsers. Soundscript already is another way to improve Javascript from Google. If I choose one I miss the other. Is there any way to integrate both of them, maybe generate soundscript out of dart.

dart2js or soundscript - which one is the preferred way. If sound script, dart will fall before reaching the goal of structured webapp. Dart on server doesn't excite me as much as single language for end to end development. There is a vaccum created due to soundscript in web development in Dart, these questions should be answered.
That's so wrong I don't even know where to start. Which, I suppose, is how Dawkins feels about Taleb's 'scientific contribution'.

Actual, real contributions can be made to arXiv, by anyone. Posting on Facebook that you checked the math and it's legit, though somewhat simplistic to your standards, is not a scientific contribution, it's NOISE.
Powerful countries doing a show of force is nothing unusual. They know they can get away with it. If they had severely impacted github it would have sent a strong message not to do buisiness with people who circumvent the Great Firewall. It makes complete sense to me, they just failed.

On the other hand, why would anybody go to this length to frame to Chinese government? What would they try to accomplish? Obama sending a strongly worded letter to the Chinese government?
Samsung Should Be Broken Up. Here's Why
Slight correction: the brand "made in Germany" was initially invented to warn against low quality products from Germany (19th century used to be a lot of copycat). Quality got better and the meaning changed.
[pretty sure it was also used as a "business propaganda" instrument after WW2 and only tipped to "good stuff" after that]
The problem with that kind of speculation is you can equally use the same argument against itself. ie maybe they're bluffing people into thinking that the Chinese military / government have been framed as it seems too obvious that it would have been them.

We could also speculate from the angle that the officers in charge of making these decisions are not tech-savvy themselves (or at least not to the level that they might realise just how traceable these attacks), which isn't a huge assumption to make when you look at how incompetent many government officials are who have serious influence over technology policies (eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23437473)

So anyway, my point is it's better to look for a little evidence to support a hypothesis rather than blindly speculate.
Germans are not so obsessed about not paying taxes like e.g. Americans or Swiss.

How do the Swiss fit in to this? Actually the tax honesty is considered a lot higher than in Germany (let alone South European countries).

The reason for this being that the tax declaration is fairly straight forward and simple. Fairness of the (progressive) tax code is quite widely recognized, which makes for good - if not happy - tax payers.

If you're implying that evading taxes is something like a Swiss hobby and legal (bullshit I see quite often spouted by even reputable American papers) this is absolute rubbish. Tax evasion is not legal in any way, shape or form.

So my question stands: Where do the Swiss come into your equation?
I assumed the standard python command used a JIT.

Is this really not the case? In 2015?
After looking at your page I tend to side with Scaleway here. I see "Buy for $19.99" on that page. That does not feel very cloudy. I associate "cloud" with paying by the minute. Also that page seems not to be linked from your homepage. And the offer is not even available. "Not available" does not feel very cloudy either.
Uh, what?

http://truongtx.me/2013/03/10/emacs-setting-up-perfect-envir...
Yeah, that's something I considered from the start. The issue is that, in order for that to work reliably, color_coded would basically need an embedded Python interpreter.

YCM's config file can contain arbitrary python functions and doesn't really need to follow any standards. This makes it hard on color_coded and ultimately didn't seem worth the trouble.
First Flight of Linux APM Drone on Raspberry Pi 2
Responding to my own post (bad form). But hasn't he just found a network cache? Many firewalls block certain kinds of ICMP traffic for security reasons. So not being able to traceroute to some place is not suspicious in and of itself. So he sets the TTL so that it should not hit Baidu, but I notice in the picture of the last trace that he actually gets a "200 OK". I would not have thought that a man in the middle device would respond because then it would have to also know the content with which to respond. Since this is not the target Baidu machine, this has to be a cache.

It is possible that the cache is also injecting the attack, but I don't actually see anything that suggests this from the data in the article.
Ban against a single blog post leads Turkish ISPs to censor all of WordPress
Creating New Business Opportunities with Business Model Bingo
The 12 greatest video game 'Easter eggs'
Having a "Tesla battery pack" at your home is more than just handling grid fluctuations. What if the battery pack can act as a supercharger for your car? It's like having a tank of gas in your garage all the time.
Which makes even less sense - why would four times the population density use three times as much water per person?

It's weird that you're using both higher and lower population density ('more agriculture') as arguments for legitimately using more water. Also, I'm not sure if you know that Melbourne also has plenty of agriculture within it's city limits, lots of market gardens, and some farms out east. As for golf courses, Melbourne is somewhat known for it's "sand belt", an area full of golf courses because land is crap for anything else[1].

But no matter how much hand-waving you do, there's still only a couple of areas in California use as little water as Melbourne does, none use less, and plenty of it uses much, much more. Compton uses nearly 50% more water than the Melbourne average - where are it's agricultural industry and golf courses? Beverly Hills uses more than four times as much as Compton, and it has no agriculture or golf courses either (though it is next to one)

The point is that Melbourne is a perfectly workable city, and it gets by on a fraction of the per-capita residential use water that Californians do. Californian residents consume a phenomenal amount of water.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Sandbelt
Anybody know if they (unofficially) support FreeBSD?
Location: India

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And now we know that pulseaudio.net uses CakePHP as their web framework. http://i.imgur.com/BbR63sK.png

They should turn debug off.
You don't find it a "bit" surprising that U.S. students don't even make it in the Top10 countries of origin?
http://www.iie.org/Services/Project-Atlas/Germany/Internatio...

In regards to the ranking - one of the most important rankings for international Universities is the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Methodology section:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...
this factor is measured by the ratio of international to domestic students and is worth 2.5 per cent of the overall score.

German Universities have a big issue about ranking performances, case and point giving certain Universities a Government issued "elite" title.
I've always thought YouCompleteMe was a stupid name too. I guess I'm just no fun :/

I don't think clang is an implementation detail. Surely the custom syntax highlighting engine is a vim feature. It's the "using clang" that makes this interesting.
There is an old Soviet sci-fi book from 50s by Alexandr Kazantsev, "The Burning Island", where he depicted an island in the Pacific Ocean producing some catalyst that made self-sustaining exothermal reaction between nitrogen and oxygen possible; the reaction had sucked out all oxygen from Earth atmosphere. The book has several scientific discussions, but the essence of the catalyst is avoided.

There is another sci-fi book by the same author, "Faetians", where he depicts the fifth planet of the Solar System, Faeton (a hypothetical planet between Mars and Jupiter that could be the source of the asteroid belt), destroyed by nuclear fusion of its ocean hydrogen after several powerful nuclear explosions. The author gives even less explanations there.

So, I think the atmosphere explosion is a myth rooted in sci-fi books, at least in Soviet culture (I have not yet encountered such plots in American literature/movies of that time, but maybe I'm just not familiar enough with it).
I consider myself a bit of a an audiophile, and always argued that beats headphones are inferior. Their balance is abysmal, way too bass heavy, and shit plastic design. They however mastered marketing, which as it turns out wins the "game". My choice of headphones are Sol Republic (http://solrepublic.com/tracks-hd-on-ear-headphones-with-v10-...) or a nice German Sennheiser.
> the Chinese Intelligence, not their bureaucracy.

Intelligence agencies are bureaucracies. Some are more efficient (less wasteful) than others, but in the end, intelligence work is seldom about secret agents driving Aston Martins. Most of it has always been paperwork. Paperwork is nowadays in electronic format. I don't think the Chinese intelligence agencies are an exception.
Could the same argument not be made for browser bundling? Microsoft says other browsers have no inherent right to exist. If people think they're useful, they'll download and use them. If not, it's more effective to integrate IE into Windows.
"accidentally".

Playing loose and fast with a CA key and installing it on random devices like this speaks volumes about their understanding and respect of the world wide CA system.
I used it in my side project (http://sediment.io) because I was using PureScript. It's just a few pure functions that are easy to bind to. The source code is also a lot easier to read and understand.
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You mean fusion.
A number of Chinese laws, or executive orders or whatever, actually might be violated.
They are targeting people that want to deploy large quantities of such micro-servers, programmatically on demand.

Otherwise, someone willing to pay as little as possible for just a single bare metal dedicated machine, is much better of renting a Kimsufi instead.

http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/
They are corporations. Their most important asset is trust, which they need to keep by not signing certificates that can be used for malicious purposes.

The action by Google will definately impact this CA. As soon as this root certificate is no longer trusted, all Chrome users will see big warnings as soon as they visit a website that has a SSL certificate that is signed by them. I don't know the exact market share of Chrome, but I have no doubt it is large enough to make current customers of CCNIC switch to a different CA.
I based this on the rules in the countries that I investigated some time ago (among them Sweden and Denmark), according to your link they seem to be the only ones to charge such high fees for non-residents. Thanks for the correction.
No, they should have gotten flash to run really good on mobile, crappy or no flash on mobile was the downfall of flash.
Be your product
Man is the best product that could be. The only problem is scalability.
Aren't they also useful because if you and I use the same CDN for our libraries, we both use the same library/version, and a user visits my site and then visits your site, the libraries are already cached in the browser? If we both store those libraries locally, the library is loaded twice.

That's my understanding of it anyway.
The Practice of Wisdom
In this case, an article can help. So I wrote one about my personal experience : http://blog.justjam.at/post/115284081705/be-your-product
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Share of hydrogen in the atmosphere is almost negligible; nuclear fusion of ocean water is a bit more likely, although it still has to meet too many conditions.
Support is on the way it seems:

https://hub.scaleway.com/
Very true said. Gaining security is always in favor of public and organizations. Google is a authority, and many people take its statement seriously rather than others. And this approach may really take internet to safe side at some point. Nowadays ssl can be found at no price. Letsencrypt is going to provide at free of cost and vendors (like ssl.com and cheapsslshop.com ) selling such certs from nominal fee of $4 - $5 per year. Infact Government organization should shake hand with Google and motivate people to adopt such security asap.
Nope, CPython compiles source to bytecode (ahead of time), but then interprets that bytecode. There's no JIT.
Almost a flying smartphone
From what I understand, and as I said I don't know much, the purpose of not self-signed certs is to provide trustworthy information about identity of entity that controls the domain.

I think that only government that issues my ID is the only party that can confirm my identity, so it, rather than private corporation should sign my cert only after it verifies my identity in the same way it would if for example I would testify in court.

If I wan't to associate cert with a company, only the office that registered my company can provide meaningful assurance about identity of my company.

The security of the system for propagating this assurance of identity of entity should not rely in any way on authority of any entity, public or private.

Also the assurances should be explicit. If someone confirms that I paid the utility bill for given address should only say that they confirm that I did that, not that I live there.
Only Gist was blocked, not Github. It was a knee-jerk reaction to a court order after ISIS made a series of threats and some Indians were found to be in contact with the ISIS. All those sites were unblocked soon after.
Let's encrypt works on the assumption that there is no reason why https certificate cannot be easy (not as cumbersome?) to use AND free of cost. They hope to start availability in the middle of this year. Free of cost is possible. We just need to make it easy, reliable, and repeatable for domain name owners to prove their ownership.

https://letsencrypt.org/
“Unquestionable greed”: The startup CEO who stole $765k from his friends
Still, the headline remains poorly written. You read it and think Ford built an electric car in 68, and you go there to find out about it, why it flopped, how it ran, etc.
My laptop has a Beats by Dre logo for some reason, I have no idea why because the sound quality is no better than any other laptop I have used with bog-standard speakers.
The Oric Atmos Behind Moss in the IT Crowd  – Computer Museum Charity Auction
No, because if it is slightly greater than 1 for one country, it must be slightly less than 1 for at least one other country.
At my university in germany, students had 3 semesters to prove themself. They had to pass certain exams. Otherwise they get kicked out. They gave you 2 maths courses, of which you have to pass at least 1 exam. Math was the game changer for most students, who did not make it.

PS: You did not get the downvote from me.
I think so, but then I don't understand the logic behind that decision in the first place? (Which they violated for 15 months anyway...)
Unfortunately this won't make a big splash, unless MS takes action in solidarity with Google. MSIE and its variants are still the vast majority of the desktop browser market in China, by a huge margin.
Most cities in Australia and New Zealand are like this, and I'd guess Canada and the U.S. as well. This is one-person one-vote "democracy" at work: the land-owners vote in the government that restricts supply via zoning laws, and boosts demand via immigration and international students. When even just a bare majority of people have jobs they hate and there's 95% bank loans available on houses and apartments, they'll gang up via the government on the renters and lower-waged to get those residential land prices going up. They want to sell their city houses and leave their jobs as soon as they can, and there's plenty of immigrants from Asia who'll happily rent and buy up with funds they earnt via questionable means in their home countries.
DANE has its own issues though: by itself, even if you're using DNSSEC with it (as you ought to be), you're essentially shifting trust from CAs to registry operators, your DNS service provider, and whoever operates the root zone.
I lost a lot of respect for Apple when they bought them. Beats are what a lot of Apple haters used to accuse them of being, overpriced junk that caters to gullible fashion victims.

I won't be switching to their new music service.
I remember trying this strategy in Civilization. While trying to dominate the long term macro quickly, short-term micro-specialists obliterated parts of my network which caused the entire long term strategy to fail. (Yes I did just make that comparison :).

I hope Tesla succeed though.

We need someone out there to run this opportunity and encourage competitors in this space.
In the end, I wonder if the purpose of the great firewall is not for China to defend itself against foreign cyber attacks or because "free internet" might not benefit China currently.

I'm sure computers are now mainstream enough that it would matter for any country to put cyber warfare as a key strategy. The US and the west dominate through open trade and easy communications and free speech. Maybe that makes China vulnerable, and they're trying to defend themselves economically.

You can accuse China all you want, but if you're an american, it's harder to listen to those accusations.
I liked it too
Untrusted marketplaces
On Debian and Ubuntu systems run this through sudo or as root:

dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

And select/deselect CAs you trust.
> I can't say I share your love for make's built in rules.

Yes they can be a bit limiting, but even if you do not want to use built-in rules it's still a good idea to use generic rules using wildcards.

This is what lots of "Makefile tutorials" get wrong, they start by writing rules to build individual object files and targets.

Even if you want to write your own build rules, you should not need more than a few good rules for building and linking your object files.
Exactly. Even the author of this post has argued for "filtering out" the weaker students in a Darwinian fashion with MOOCs:

"MOOC education is survival of the fittest. Every student is just one insignificant datapoint while the course is running. Do well, do poorly, struggle, drop out – no one notices. But when the MOOC algorithm calculates the final ranking, the relatively few who score near the top become very, very visible. Globally, talent recruiting is a $130BN industry. It’s “Google search for people” in action."

From "The Darwinization of Higher Education": http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-darwinization-o...

In contrast, there are folks who look at how can we help more students succeed in math and physics (without dumbing the courses down and grade inflation). Wright State (and now many other universities) created a pre-calculus course that teaches the math in context with many engineering examples. 90% of students who took this course went on to pass Calculus, compared to 60% of those who didn't: http://cecs.wright.edu/community/engmath
"Beats capable", probably. Means about as much as "Vista ready".
I think you have been misinformed about the main goal of many early American colonizers.

Also, that's a rather tenuous connection to suburbs. US suburbs mostly developed 200 years after colonization. And 100 years after London (that's "old world", right?) invented suburbs.
Then you're likely in the top 10 experts of the field ;)

The fact that OpenSSL did it wrong for 15 years doesn't bode well for the myriads of TLS implementations that are around.

My experience with the x509 part of SSL/TLS stacks is really not good when you start to use something else than OpenSSL/NSS (well PolarSSL is pretty good too). Quite often there is enough implemented to interoperate in the common use cases, but you're on your own if you need a complete standard support... Then it has been a while, maybe it's a lot better now.
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Lovely words, of course in the case of Mozilla we already know its wholly worthless. Disregard whatever they write to the contrary.

Case in point: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724929
Please check my response to sibling commenter.

Bootstrapping trust should start from entities that actually have information about identity.

Also information about identity should be explicit and carried through the system. What happens now for me looks like bunching together good and toxic assets and creating derivatives. Creating something that to general to fail.

Some people in comment refer to previous incident that didn't have any repercussions probably because it would have too many consequences.
It just shows the power of good marketing really.

Audiophiles will rant and rave about the poor quality of the headphones, and rightly so. I've not used Beats but it's pretty obvious from the reviews I've read that Beats headphones are overpriced crap.

However, I don't believe Dre played anybody like a fool. He and his co-founder simply understood that there was a gap in the market for "fashionable" headphones, and so he used his name and connections to make that happen.

It's an incredibly basic approach to launching a new product in an established market and I'm sure many other companies have sold overpriced crap in other industries to a wide consumer base for lots of $$$'s using the same technique.

Edit: Fixed typo
This is only a problem if it's possible for the transformation to be self-sustaining. That is, the act of transforming atmosphere causes yet more atmosphere to transform. Only in that situation would the whole planet's atmosphere burn.

Is that possible?