skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about MSN Messenger. I'm getting old I guess ...
As a lifelong manual card driver with a left-foot clutch, it takes about, oh, ten seconds of sitting in a go-kart with left foot brake and right foot accelerator to get used to it and adapt. There seems to be no real difficulty in switching which leg does what.
Do you have some marketing strategies in mind? Or how do you want to increase the number of downloads?
Are Noise Cancelling Headphones Worth It?
At every other company.

Always.

No exceptions.
It doesn't matter that there are more pedals than you have feet, since you never need to use more than two of them at a time. Your computer keyboard has more keys than you have fingers, but in general that doesn't cause problems.
If you're crossing borders with electronic stuff, simply don't bring anything personal. Access it remotely. You'll only be out hardware should the hardware be confiscated, and you'll have no big privacy breach should you have to boot the machine to show to customs.

Clear cache / cookies beforehand, or use the browser in a mode that clears on shutdown. Use suspend / hibernate when not crossing borders, but do a proper shutdown when going through borders.

Carrying valuable data around then trying to protect it by encrypting it, while simultaneously going through borders, is just asking for trouble IMO. You'll look like a complete freak should you be picked on, very suspicious.
Does anybody know what it would require to fork Popcorn Time to only support Creative Commons and public domain content? I've spent a lot of time boycotting copyrighted works and I'd like to have a nice user interface to do this.
Thanks for sharing this link!

Congrats, it must feel awesome to be a part something like this and sad to see come to an end.

May I ask what parts of the project were you working on at the time?

Also, I read about MESSENGER's mission here:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Targe...

Did it accomplish all the missions?
Centralized logging for Docker logs with elasticsearch and fluentd
The obvious analogy is race. Talking about race is hard enough. When someone posts a link from Stormfront about how The Jews Did It then there's no point even trying to engage them in discussion.

Parent's link was fucking garbage.
Kind of a different problem, isn't it?

My first exposure to the resource allocation problem and solutions came at Google, whose system evolved into Kubernetes (now an open source project). It's so damn effective I hope it takes off everywhere.
It sounds like they actually based the resource system on Karbonite/ORS, though I haven't had a chance to try it out yet and see which one it's most similar to.
"uBeam’s ultrasound wireless charging has several advantages. First and foremost, it’s safe. These are similar ultrasonic waves used for ultrasound scans of babies in the womb."

"How can it be dangerous? Look at the babies!"

I would be less worried about the whole thing if they released a single statement about the safety of their system that doesn't insult the reader's intelligence.
TrueCrypt doesn't support EUFI which pretty much all laptops use these days.
I thought the LEDs were a nice touch, and I was a little surprised by their placement, assuming they wouldn't last long exposed to the heat of the exhaust.

On review, I thought the middle exhaust was simulating an APU, which didn't seem quite right, but you appear to be correct, there's only one engine in the middle.

I've seen large, turbine powered scale helicopters sell for more than NZ$20k. That said, helicopters are mechanically more complicated, and they don't look like they're supposed to go mach-3, so they have considerably more exterior detail.
Begging, homelessness, destructive addiction, are systemic problems. Even the best charity is only trying to relieve the symptom.

We have in our power to completely end this kind of unnecessary suffering. No one ever need go hungry. But we don't live in that kind of world ecause the people in power are more concerned with popularity contests and money than human happiness, comfort, or dignity.

If you want to help go volunteer at a soup kitchen or get into politics.

I don't give them money or food. For the same reason I don't try to move the sea to the mountains.
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There was a court case later that investigated the firmware of the drive by wire throttle control system software. Basically, design choices in the software implementation couldn't rule out the software as the source of unintended acceleration. All bets are off after stack overflow and continued execution.

Also the "brake override" wasn't a feature included at all which one could argue should have been part of the design.

In fact, software for car control systems should go through the same rigorous testing, documentation, control etc... (similar to what is required for FDA medical devices).

More: http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...
Could someone help me understand the significance of this long-running debate? What is different about a world in which CS is a science and a world in which CS is not a science?
> Disclaimer: I've got no knowledge of the Pinto case besides hearsay and what's in this article.

In that case, please don't post. Sharing what you know to be unreliable information makes everyone dumber.

That's not meant as a personal attack. Lots of folks do it, and you're at least good enough to admit it. But instead of admitting that you're making noise, why not just... not make noise?
So, it's obviously hard to defend against a freeze attack when the computer is sleeping - because the key is still needed.

But I feel like disk encryption software should, when the computer is being shut down, prepare some random data and write over the encryption key to prevent information leakage in the moments after shutdown. This, combined with some hardware intrusion detection system would help a lot, wouldn't it? Or am I missing something?
"and that it has been at all times an outright fabrication on the part of the American government to protect the domestic auto industry which is presently owned by the American government"

If there were a shred of truth to this the press and in particular news magazines like 60 minutes as well as WSJ and NYT would be all over this. There are people in this country who also believe that the government played a role in 9/11. As if a conspiracy such as that could actually be kept quiet given the number of players involved in pulling that off not to mention the absurdity of the idea to begin with.
btw, Mozilla's Tracking Protection list doesn't use Google's SafeBrowsing service or list (which is malware list, not a tracker list). It talks to a Mozilla server, specified by in the "browser.trackingprotection.gethashURL" about:config pref: https://tracking.services.mozilla.com/gethash?client=SAFEBRO.... Mozilla's list is currently based on Disconnect's tracking list: http://services.disconnect.me/disconnect-plaintext.json.
No, it's not.

Firefox is managing extension updates already. As an app developer, you don't need to know this data.

As a security surface, you really don't want this data in real-time. It makes you a target.

I presume the problem is that Firefox isn't sharing this install/update data with the extension developers. So, they're trying to collect it themselves.
I respect the work you do and mozilla does many great things - however, when I start freshly installed firefox (on ubuntu), I have already a google cookie set. Why?
> when I say that my concern is not with top level government agencies decrypting my hard drive.

It's great that you have risk-assessed your needs.

It's a shame that the title says "like you mean it", and not "for tamper resistance against most people, but probably not well funded government agencies".
Constraints often involve tradeoffs as opposed to money. I don't know much about cars, but I am an active rock climber. Climbing is probably unique in that these sorts of engineering tradeoffs concerning life and death are part of the sport.

Perhaps the best example is found in the gear used and its placement. Cords, slings, and webbing (short pieces of tubing or cord used to build anchors or fix gear) were typically made of nylon back in the day. Military grade plastics [1] entered the climbing scene by the 90s. These plastics are both much stronger and lighter than nylon. For that matter, they are actually stronger than steel.

In practice, they are so much stronger that they don't stretch at all. The obvious effect is that falls exert a much larger force on both the climber and the gear. Gear rarely fails, but it does punch holes through rock ripping its way out. The other effect is that dyneema effectively sheds redundancy from anchors. A bit of background is in order.

Anchors are typically attached to the rock via more than one piece of pro(tection). A cordelette (short cord 20 feet in length) is attached to all the pro and tied into a knot (the master point). Depending on the position of the pro, the legs of the cordelette can be doubled (or more) to make a stronger anchor. A cordelette made of nylon stretches enough that the total weight it holds is nearly additive of the number of independent legs. Dyneema, on the other hand, will break at the tensile strength of a single leg no matter what. In the concrete, 5mm dyneema may hold up to 5000 pounds, while a 7mm nylon cord will hold 2800 pounds or so per leg. In most cases, an anchor of nylon is both stronger and more forgiving because it stretches more.

If we didn't have enough to consider already, space age plastics rapidly loose strength under very moderate weighting cycles and degrade quickly in the sun.

Which plastic is better? Or better yet, which one would you use? Nylon means falls are typically safer, but you are more likely to take a fall because you will fatigue more quickly. Of course, if you can hit the deck (eg, a ledge below you) or can't double up the cord, you'd want to use dyneema. However, I certainly wouldn't want to take multiple falls in succession on dyneema.

| Think about that. It in no way realistically ran into any constraints that were not arbitrary.

More engineers, better engineers, and more money can't solve this problem. You have to pick your cords ahead of time and live (or not) with the decision.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-molecular-weight_pol...
There is a slider in the options menu that you can set to 0 that will turn it off.
They get money out of it. The Pirate Bay makes a huge margin from the advertisements on their website.

Edit: apparently they do not currently have ads on the website or in the app, so they do not currently make money.
> One was an english professor who had control over the courses about science fiction and fantasy, and often taught a Tolkien course. No real mystery why he was so popular (although he was also a really great personable guy).

Michigan? Rabkin?
What better boycott than to pirate it?
Does Popcorn Time sport ads?
Reminds me kind of like Triangle Boy from 2001. That was a CIA funded project. I wouldn't doubt that they could be up to their old tricks again.
This excerpt is truly one of the best things I've read recently:

> It stems from a somewhat bizarre British government decision, taken during World War II, to reclassify some of its more remote island possessions as ships. Tristan was transmuted into HMS Atlantic Isle, and its role was to patrol (from its rock-hewn state of immobility) for any German U-boats that might be lurking in the southern Atlantic. To compound the fantasy a small party of sailors was posted there to man the ship
Popcorn is two things: A bittorrent streamer, and a frontend for an api serving film/torrent info. At the moment it uses yify as the backend.

For your project you would need to have the media published as torrents and a backend api that points to the media you want instead of the current one.

You can drop a torrent file into Popcorn and it will start streaming, if that makes things clearer.
Ask HN: Comprehensive Rust Tutorial?
Apart from the Rust Book - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ which resource would you recommend for someone starting out with the language. The more detailed and rigorous, the better.
Thanks!
Not to pile on or insult US law students, but this is supported by the fact that for a long time in the US all you had to do was pass the bar exam to be a lawyer (now only two states allow this, with major caveats). Law is as difficult an occupation as any, but it really isn't like medicine in that it should require front-loaded special education (early in a medical career your mistakes are less reversible than an early lawyer's, etc). Apprenticing (like the Brits do) should be good enough.
When you report stats you normally also report losses, not just wins, that may be something to add.
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Greg Egan is fantastic. Too many authors just magic stuff into existence all over the place and it leads to large, annoying inconsistencies. Egan's stuff mainly seems to follow the rule of only using magic once, and having the rest of the storyline come from that and make sense/be consistent.

I wish more stories would start off with one magic point, cast one universe-altering spell, suspend my disbelief once, and then just deal with the consequences.

Yeah I hear people call this "hard sci-fi", but that's not really fitting. It can apply to any fiction. There's fantasy like Harry Potter where the world is just unbelievably inconsistent (as HPMOR loved to point out). Compared to, say, Mistborn (I don't read a lot of fantasy), which introduces its restricted magic system and more-or-less deals with it from there.

And the one big change can be huge, unrealistic, too! Like the Culture books - posit that we've got hyperintelligent friendly AI that can warp many dimensions at will - the rest fits in more-or-less from there; but no one would call Culture hard sci-fi.
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Ask HN: 2015 13“ Macbook Pro vs. Latest 15” for Coding?
I am trying to decide what laptop to get. Will that extra 2 inch vertical and quad core be something I won't be able to live without? Additionally, I'll be traveling up to a couple hours a day with it.
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I really like that idea. I don't know what the goal of Popcorn Time is (maybe they want change in the industry, maybe they just like free stuff) but if the goal is to make access to content even easier than it already is then running the project with only CC/public domain content would be a good way to go. Show that it works and start getting bigger creators signing on (kind of the way BitTorrent does legitimate stuff now).[1]

[1]https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/a1e9a2153051b92d00b27...
TBB offers a speedy and modern browsing experience. I use it for everything, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. You can watch Youtube videos, download large files, and browse most websites without a hitch.

You could sign up for G+ over Tor and get most of the purported benefits of being tracked by Google without tying your browsing activity to your real name or IP.
Having been through three colleges, the professors that seemed to be disliked were not the ones that were the most difficult, but the ones that were terrible at explaining the material to the students.

For some classes, students stopped going to class and studied on their own.
What mistifies me is the sheer callousness/arrogance of the popcorn time developers. They must know they are playing with fire in a very public way but there is no need for them to be doing so. If they were just releasing a torrent client with streaming and media managment capabilities (the interesting part of the app) they would be fine but they insist on being as provocative and explicit about their desire to violate copyright as possible. The focus on public torrents is strange as well - in 2015 public torrents are a poisoned well disaster - they can't even compete with direct download sites any more - the product they were supposed to be more secure than.
Are profit and perfection correlated? Seems unlikely.
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I believe this is quite an open ended question. Its almost like asking people - "What would be your ideal music? ". While everyone in the world - after hearing a music / song - will be able to tell you whether they like it or not - They wont be able to tell you what their ideal music is. Mostly because they dont know.

On a side note : A Programming Language is a User Interface - and the best User Interface is the one that is invisible. So, an ideal Programming Language is the one that is mostly invisible.
When I was building live relation system faye server has problem to accept more that 1k simultaneous connections. For nodejs it can accept about 30k simultaneous connections. Did you do some stress test with more that 1k connections?
Those on their 2nd or 3rd career, what horrific mistakes did you make?
I'm about 15 years into a career around what I went to college for. A rare thing, I am lead to understand. But I've had occasional bouts of ambition to jump tracks to a related field.

Should I keep with the tried and true? Should I strike out and make waves?
I guess you didn't read the article. There are no ads on Popcorn Time and no source of revenue for the developers.
Why fork it? Just add support for the necessary metadata to search and filter by.
Hmm. Have you considered the possibility of adding more boosters?
My mom is an RN at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (LPCH) and she's been working with kids who have EB and other rare genetic skin conditions for many years now.

About 5 years ago I had the chance to meet one of her patients, a young man with EB. The brutality of living/existing with this condition is striking and severe.

Imagine the driest and itchiest your skin has ever felt and multiply it by a few orders of magnitude, then apply that sensation across your entire body. That is what it is like all the time having EB. Except even worse because of the scarring that builds up over time.

Mihai sounds like an incredible individual who didn't let ANYTHING stop him from doing what he loved. What remarkable inspiration for the rest of us!
They all come from the equations of adiabatic processes of an ideal gas. Wikipedia explains better than me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_process

(Especially the section "Derivation of discrete formula" in the latter)

It's only a first approximation, but meh.
I'll typically help with food. Rarely cash these days. It's just too hard to tell where the money really goes. (Unless the donations are through an organization)

Short anecdote - A friend met a homeless man on Haight St who in exchange for a burrito showed him some of his wild world. The man ended up taking him to an abandoned warehouse covered with mattresses and needles. The man opened up a bit and told my friend that when he asks for money, he doesn't care so much if people don't give it to him. But what gets to him after a while is how most people won't even acknowledge his existence when he asks. He said he understood if people said no, but he appreciated at least being told no or even simply looked at.
And what losses have SpaceX had with Falcon 9 exactly?
Android is finally beating Apple in this one key metric- revenue from apps
The most ridiculous fix to a serious car problem, to me, was that with the GM Cobalt et al. cars: http://engineeringethicsblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-switch...

Anyone can see that the 'fix' was half-baked. This is a weird analogy, but it popped into my mind to fit the unbelievable situation:

It's like designing a traveling laptop-cooling station where the laptop sits on a strainer, which is almost touching a pool of water. The fix was to increase the gap between the strainer and the water by 1cm. Surprisingly, laptops would still get wet after the fix.
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* We initially picked EMS because of its API, but we're moving to nginx-rtmp.

* We used 20G ethernet, we could get 19G from each machine.

* All the content is hosted by us.
> My understanding is Google also blocks hardware vendors from working with alternative android based OSes.

What right do manufacturers have to reproduce google's code? It's not like those manufacturers can make iOS devices either.
http://rustbyexample.com is a useful resource, I've found.
Secondary payload, the orbcomm satellite.
"Falcon 9 is holding due to weather"
There would be less incentive toward this kind of piracy if content producers and distributors could get their collective acts together with more liberal licensing. Popcorn Time is winning because it's easier to use and find content than any pay service. Like anything, you compete by making a better product/service -- not by complaining that your competitors are unfair. Of course, they are certainly unfair here, but the rules of competition are the same.
Popcorn Time doesn't anonymize BitTorrent participation, right? Just makes it easier?
The OP probably was replying to the fact that larger nations are able and willing to lean on service providers to extract personal information and deanonymize private conversation. This is a normal mode of analysis for citizens trying to secure their conversations from the US government, for example.

The Burmeses government however is not likely to be able to perform something like this, especially if the authors are not in Myanmar. In fact, there's a reasonable chance that the authors of the software are CSOs sponsored by other governments that would like to see changes in the regime in Myanmar (like the CIA's ZunZuneo app in Cuba) - in this case it is not likely that the government there will be able to play effective whack-a-mole.

The danger here is that the government will ban phones or create some sort of licensing for them if this becomes a large enough civil unrest problem. But it's equally likely that other countries would then raise sanctions and human rights violations against the regime on account of principles of 'freedom'.
>The problem with McKellar’s books is that they may appeal to certain types of young girls, but not all.

Try to please everyone and you will surely fail comes to mind.

Instead of complaining about McKellar's books (which are having a positive influence, even if only on a subset of girls) - why not write a book targeting these "other types of young girls" mentioned? Or could it be that it has been attempted and the books were a flop? Failed by a free market - unable to gain traction or credence?

What bothers me is that the article recognizes women are more interested and more likely to work in Healthcare or early Education areas of work helping others and dealing with children. That's the women's choice to do these things. The author acts like women having a choice in things and doing what they are interested in doing is wrong. That women need to change themselves and do more STEM-field work.

Preferences aren't just social constructs. The female and male brains are different, with different interests and we've known this for years! Yet nowadays this is somehow a problem?

[0] http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks.html

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/101220-chimpanzees-play-nature-nurture-science-animals-evolution/
Yes, for sure. :) Probably, there will be some changes but we're going to discovery some of them ongoing.