skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> does that then mean your moral obligation to cooperate with law enforcement should still not kick in once you personally feel something wrong is happening

My point was that some of the definitions of "terrorism" and "pedophilia" used nowadays do not match something which I personally feel is wrong. More precisely, they match things that I personally would never want to do, but for which I do not consider it good that they be forbidden.

For instance, in some countries such as the UK, "partaking in child pornography" is interpreted as "watching drawings or computer-generated imagery of sexual acts among minors", a victimless crime, which I do not feel is morally wrong. While I am not myself interested in this, I believe people have the right to create, exchange and consume such material, and I find it immoral to limit their right to do this, or to help law enforcement doing so.

In other countries such as France, "terrorism" can be interpreted as "expressing support for acts such as the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks, or posting djihadist propaganda online". Once again, I believe people have the right to express such opinions, and that it is morally wrong to prosecute them for it, or help law enforcement do so.

Further, in many situations, cooperating with law enforcement to track illegal or immoral acts means supporting mass surveillance measures which are both inefficient for these goals and extremely dangerous for individual freedoms. So, even in situations where the acts are unquestionably morally wrong, helping law enforcement is extended to a very broad meaning with which it is possible to disagree.
The end result of this is that I'm impressed with Virgin Media's quick responses on twitter.
Worked for Thoreau.
Regarding the Power Point thing you might want to check out Beamer. It is a extension for publishing presentations from org mode. http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html
that's why I stopped buying anything that touched american hand/soil, if possible/reasonable. I like many individuals there, but the idea that even a cent would go to that orwellian system that is a net negative to mankind is a bit too much to handle
Well, Newton's laws of motion suffice for non-relativistic motion. Maxwell's equations, I think, suffice for typical electronic/magnetic fields. Judging from all the labs I did or TA'd back then, we have a pretty good handle on friction and inclined planes. While there's a lot of "science at the edges" that's ongoing, much of the everyday, classical things have a suitable solution.

As others have written, modern Engineering could not be done without the existence of such working solutions.
Dropbox support was cool, but I recall MobileOrg being buggy to the point of making it completely useless, not to mention pretty bad UI. This project really needs some love.
Nested Folders versus Software for Paperless Document Management
Parachutes work better at sea than land; water becomes far softer as you reduce speeds. Also, a powered landing on a 30 foot wave seems like a rather complex problem not to mention buildings etc. Worse, powered landings have little redundancy where a sea landing with 2/3 of your parachutes is not a major issue.

I suspect a larger issue is seawater is not something you want anywhere close to delicate equipment. But, for an emergency landing that's not much of a concern. Anyway, I suspect these are designed so if either the powered landing or the parachutes work the landing is survivable even if the craft is damaged.
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Bah wow, what's up with the picture on the women's gym at Auguststraße (Mitte)
If you are good enough, you can get hired by a SV startup to work from a place where life is cheaper than in the Bay Area. Switzerland is not that place, definitely.

Also consider that everyone is trying to move to SV and you are trying to leave. What's wrong with you? :P
I feel calmer already. Tell us about it on http://glitchclub.com !
Using Python wrapper to multi-thread PHP scripts
> The only thing that was changed is that the consumer of cannabis is no longer treated as a criminal.

Right, which is why I say it's going in the right direction. I think full legalization will provide the most benefits to society, but decriminalization of use is a good start.
Incidentally, I just found out yesterday that Straight Talk (AT&T MVNO) keeps their online passwords in plaintext. Restoring your password actually sends you the password by email.

I'm glad I never reuse a password.
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In the US, it's still extremely common for carriers to have a phone PIN number just for the purpose of making changes through a phone call. If the user fails to remember that, they are asked more questions about private personal information to verify the account. Horrible practice, but very standard in the US.
Internet subscribers surpass television subscribers
Distortion adds harmonic content. It is not a filter that lets "only the strongest tone come through." If there's a 600Hz thump as you move your hand between strings, now you've got that same 600Hz thump plus a 1200Hz and 1800Hz thump too. That's the definition of harmonic distortion. And those 1200/1800Hz components are approaching where the ear is most sensitive. So you've made it worse.

A previous poster said that compression helps. Well, no. Compression reduces dynamic range. If there's a soft squeak between loud notes, a compressor makes the soft squeak louder and the loud note quieter. That's the definition of a compressor.

And none of this changes the fundamental skill of the performer, in the same way that an Instagram filter does not change the fundamental beauty of the object. Sure, presentation is important and changing your resume font might even get you a better coding job. But changing the font doesn't make you a better coder.
Duration is part of the timing, I guess. What do you mean by "smearing" exactly?
Ways to automate secondary research without programming
Visualize Docker images and the layers that compose them. See how each command in the Dockerfile contributes to the final image, and discover which layers are shared by multiple images.
What makes a good IdeaSquare?
This is going to be a pain in the but for enterprise shops that have setup a definitive procedure around Patch Tuesdays. I'm hoping it works out, but enterprises don't like random or unpredictable.
NASA’s New 10-Engine Drone Is Half Chopper, Half Plane
Because we have lot of Linux distros lot better than Android. Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. BTW, there's is a Linux distro called Android x86 for PCs, based on Android.
> IMHO, this is also the reason for really bad public transit.

This is an undisputed fact, as people in those communities will readily protest the "crime train" coming through their neighborhoods.[1][2]

[1]: http://lewwaters.com/2012/05/22/light-rail-likely-to-raise-v...

[2]: http://larslarson.com/would-you-trust-your-kid-on-the-crime-...
Grass is always greener, my path was the opposite and I love the city and being a software engineer.
Regularly, was just browsing a cool Berlin 1945 and Berlin today website, everything was smooth until it made it to HN!
It's a meaningless anecdote, but a recent newsworthy drug bust around here was a prescription pill ring (Buprenorphine/Suboxone). So there is also criminal distribution of prescription painkillers.
Great point BTW. EDIT : May be the writer of this article talking about operating systems based on Linux kernel and he called them all simply Linux as we all do.
> I love being outside, but I also love programming and wouldn't chose any other career over it.

Couldn't agree more. The strange thing is just how hard it seems to be to reconcile these two preferences. Growing up in the UK countryside in the 1980s and watching the march of communication technologies, it seemed inconceivable that tech jobs would stay shackled to urban areas. Who knew?

One day, I'll find the remote gig I'm looking for...
So in short:

- They're doing things correctly
- They ask for a code over the phone to verify your account
- Their Twitter guy refers to this as a "password"
- Nobody reads anything on the internet, therefore everybody is concerned and fighty.

There's no indication of how passwords are actually stored. This is all about the passphrase you tell the guy on the phone so that he can verify your account. It seems reasonable that that guy would need to be able to see that word on a screen so that he can compare it to what you say.

Still, it's good that people are still really angry about this, 23 hours after their support guy explained what's going on.
Yes, a two handed mode + scoring would be great. That would make it a fun program to practice rhythm. There are similar music training software such as Earmaster but they're not really engaging.
I can relate to this. I left San Francisco a few weeks ago and moved to South Carolina. I love software development, and I'm not sure if I can trade it for anything at this point and time in my life. I'm currently working remotely from South Carolina and in the search for a nice house with some land, so I can live a bit more rural while still being able to do what I love.
Well, you clearly know more about Li-ion batteries than I do, so you’re more likely to be right about that.
I have direct knowledge of at least one instance of this happening in California.
The live chat feature is a game-changer. We need things fast, tired of sending an inquiry and getting an answer a day later when I usually already settled my issue or found someone local ready to do it.
what you call an adventure is by most muslims percieved as rape and genocide of their homelands. we don't have another world to move to, so we'll have to deal with all the cp US does (and Russia too, I don't see much difference in foregin policies and results nowadays). Have no doubt - legacy of this will be present for generations, and currently we might still not reached the peak of these atrocities.
This is purely a suburban problem and typical of the short sightedness of suburban development, which often corrupts the political process because a mandated retail lot is one less high-profit residential home they can't sell.

Here in the city, there are shops everywhere. Mix use residential is fairly common with retail on the ground floor and condos/apartments up top. This has created a glut of storefronts with varying results. Its nice to have all these shops, but the glut of small storefronts means much lowered rents than before so a lot of fly-by-night businesses take over, and in my opinion, hurt the neighborhood like pawn shops, yet another open 4am tattoo shop, yet another shitty independent cricket/boost reseller, yet another liquor convenience store, yet another e-cig store, yet another detailing/hand carwash, yet another gourmet-style restaurant that will fold in 12 months, etc. Desireable shops like Trader Joes or Nordstrom can't open in those tiny and no parking storefronts so its high margin retail junk.

This isn't as common anymore -- thank god, but when I was a kid, every other residential block in Chicago had a corner bar. A few nice, but most just depressing places full of serious drunks causing problems all through the night. So yeah, being too liberal with business licenses isn't so great.

So this kind of thing cuts both ways, but yes, in the suburbs its especially bad. But at least they have the roads and capacity to handle it and their shopping centers are massive, which is nice as you can park at a giant mall or strip mall and get everything you need done. I can't do that, I have no giant structures like this remotely near me. In the city, we need closer stores because of how bad traffic and parking are. If suburban driving was this bad then they'd have the political impetus to change zoning.

tldr; city planning is hard and political.
Good start!
I would say the most prominent issue is readability and contrast. Simple things like a little bigger fonts and making sure that light text is not on light background (e.g. use some semi transparent dark rectangular overlay behind to make white text contrast over light backgrounds)

Other than that, good job!
Is there anything like this for Android? Nexus 6 here.
We need a less conspicuous blue tooth version. Having a rope around your wrist is too obvious from an op-sec standpoint. And if you have the presence of mind to pull the USB you probably have the presence to quickly lock it.
If Nim doesn't change the major safety problems with C, why bother? I'd rather see more kernel development in Rust.
There is a tradeoff here. If you want terse, field-specific papers without introduction and/or definition of terms they will be essentially incomprehensible for those not knowledgeable about the field. If you want things to be more generally accessible, a brief (!) explanation of the point and basis of the paper is helpful.

That said, I would like to see papers that actually provide a return for the time spent reading them. Teach me something that I can use if I'm familiar with the discipline. Make sure it's actually generally applicable rather than an artifact of the data. Do proper statistics and/or testing of the idea. Show it's not just an LPU (least-publishable unit) that resulted from running tutorials from the vendor.

There's a tremendous push to publish as it's the currency of academic and much professional life. I've done methodology all my working life, and the good papers are joys to read. They provide insight for new techniques, things which I can understand and apply and build upon. There's test data, so I can check that the paper and any work I do based on the paper is robust.

They unfortunately quite rare. I think editors use me as a hatchet man for me-too papers, or that's all people write anymore. Yeah, the goal is to get one's students trained and employed and the grants obtained but please, please write things that are worth the time of reading them.
I agree, I totally expect that dummy to be named Jeb.
Wow someone actually made one!

I had the idea last year, but time, laziness and a bit of meh stopped me from fleshing it out. kudos to the author! I will be one of your most devoted users!!!
Until something better comes along, use GitHub. It'll render org files.

I've created a couple short-cuts on my iPad:

bex #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE

eex #+END_EXAMPLE
I grew up in the middle of the city, and recently moved out to 4 acres of country land. I guess we all crave a change of scenery eventually.
I've actually gotten to the point where I don't mind systemd itself ("systemctl status" is a sysadmin's wet dream, and the built-in security and resource limit options are seriously wonderful), but what I do have a problem with is how the Linux ecosystem is turning into a monoculture.

IMO, Linux is at its healthiest when its two most popular server distributions, RHEL and Debian, are as different as they can possibly be. I really wish Debian would have gone with OpenRC for that reason.
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Having grown up in Michigan, I can attest to this. It has made me want to abandon this state so heavily built around the automobile. Even downtown Detroit has wide city streets and few walkable areas. Ann Arbor, on the other hand, is pedestrian friendly, and one can manage without a car.
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Thank you. The time I spent with the US military as a linguist back in Baghdad is much more interesting. I might write it about sometime soon.
It's a little sad seeing how most of the old ornate buildings have been replaced with much more generic looking buildings. That's one thing that struck me about Berlin--it looks a lot more like a "typical" American city than a "typical" European city.
When you boot Linux, the init system loads the drivers you need, turns on your network connection, fires up the necessary system service and then loads the desktop. Without an init system, you have no way to do anything.

Actually I'm pretty sure it's udev that handles module loading these days (which isn't related to the functions of init(8) and process management, even if it's part of systemd now), or alternately one can use the kmod tools manually.

This is a misleading interpretation in general. The init system (though really the process manager) starts the services to enable all these things. The simplest form is just a synchronous tool that exec()s binaries.
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Wonder when the time lost to dealing with setting up and provisioning cloud machinery overwhelms the cost of acquiring some non-virtual hardware.

(also is that spike in the mac data at 960 pixels because I think that's the width of some standard iphone device, maybe some deeper digging and / or spot checkign is needed)
Like I wrote below in a different post, the pitchforks have been justified since at least 2011:

http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/4983474119/virginmobile-c...

I'm with virgin mobile australia and I get the same mail when I click on "Forgotten Password" when I try to log into my online account to pay my bill.
Well, in theory they could just tell the phone rep the unencrypted password and the phone rep could enter it into the system and the system could tell them if the hash matches. That's pretty much how it happens with most websites these days anyway. But I can see there's a big benefit in the rep being able to accept passwords which are obviously (to a human) the same, but would hash differently.
Sorry, what? I think we are talking about very different concepts, Looks like you are talking about a "distributed data system", where the OP (and me) were heading to the idea of a "personal website with social functions".

For me at least, I am thinking of a system that would be some kind of "personal cloud + feed syndication + acls based on friendships". I want the opposite of a business paying to know who you are. Diaspora got the initial momentum precisely because it was pushing for a privacy-aware version of Facebook. The way I read OP, the one thing that Diaspora got wrong was by putting the "social network" as the focus of their development, while it should've been the person.

I am not even going to argue about your idea, because it seems completely far off from what OP mentioned. Yeah, of course we could a have a system that could provide Facebook features in a distributed manner, and still have business paying for it. Turns out that "have someone paying for it" violates the requirement zero (user owned, personal cloud) of the product!

Lastly, I am sorry, but there is no way I can get my fridge to run a web server, connect to the home router and store gigabytes of data, _all the while keeping your personal network secure*. Saying that the cost of devices is trending to zero is just as magic-thinking of those in the 2000s who were selling that companies could save by switching immediately just by dumping their office licenses and switching to free software. This is flat out wrong[1]

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
Yeah, once I figured this out I went there from my VPS in the UK. Looks like Manhattan is the default for outside the US.
...it's gypsum, and while no one is really sure why gypsum replaced chalk, it may have to do with a) gypsum being more widely available and b) gypsum can be shaped easily by first powdering it then by adding water and shaping.
It is completely useless for flying cars. It has zero use for getting things into orbit.

The only thing that's amazing about the EM Drive, if true, is that it doesn't require a propellant. It's extremely energy intensive, but since energy can be derived from a reactor or solar panels, this is often easy to overcome.

In an atmosphere solar panels are drag, and a reactor is completely insane.
>Formal verification would not help if the formal or informal design specs called for unauthenticated telnet

This is why I qualified by question saying such.
I'd be a lot happier as a programmer if I could do it only about 20 weeks a year. Hell, I'd probably gladly work 60+ hour weeks then. 40 hours week after week and I slowly grow to hate it. If only programming work were seasonal. 1/3 of my work weeks programming, 1/3 studying, practicing music, and doing non-programming creative work, 1/3 physical labor and building things with my hands. That'd be my perfect life, I think.

Not sure how to make that work while providing for my family, though, since working 1/3 a year at a professional job isn't usually an option and, even if it were, I'd be passing up a lot of money.

Oh well, can't have everything. Hurray for comparative advantage, I guess? Back to coding....
built-in security and resource limit options are seriously wonderful

You could have used these already as separate tools that operate on process state. It's just kernel subsystems and syscalls at the end of the day. util-linux has them.
In the case of doctors, yes, I do. They demonstrate that they have a medical degree, have completed their residency, have passed their boards, and then provide proof of prior work experience. What they don't have to do is perform some esoteric and completely irrelevant surgical procedure on a gourd.

The reason the practical among us are complaining about whiteboard questions is:

1. They are arcane and esoteric and do not reflect the day-to-day activities of the company.

2. Programming is an iterative process complete with tools, visual feedback, and documentation. A whiteboard question takes away all these things and puts the engineer in an unrealistic situation. Using you doctor example, it would be like asking a doctor to prove their medical skills by performing a microtia repair on a banana using a bra and a bouncy house. Fun, of course, but completely irrelevant.

3. They are the sign of an unskilled interviewer.

Personally, I have no interest in practicing to master the impractical, irrelevant, and incompetent whiteboard question skill when I can simply go interview with a company who knows how to conduct an effective interview. Maybe the prestige of working at Google or Microsoft is worth it to people to slog their way through those kinds of interviews. Personally, I went through Microsoft's interview process and ended up working there for over a year. I've had better jobs and I still think their interview process is retarded. I certainly wouldn't put myself through it again.
You may have to accept a world where you need other people besides engineers.
No worries. Yeah, it's an Erlang specific approach. The app itself only crashes if processes thrash sufficiently to percolate all the way up (supervisors form hierarchies; if a process underneath a supervisor crashes the supervisor restarts it; if it crashes enough, the supervisor crashes; if that supervisor crashes enough, it triggers its own supervisor, etc, all the way up to the top level supervisor which defines the app, and if -that- one goes down the app comes down, as its viewed as an unrecoverable failure).

You still run the risk of losing state internal to the process if it's not persisted, and as a dev you have to deal with that, and ensure that when a process restarts it restarts into a good state, but it proves a really effective model.
I need this computer now http://imgur.com/sLF40FF
I wish they'd focus on improving the market by weeding out poor contractors and employers. The rating system doesn't work. If you're an employer you post a job and have to wade through dozens of messages from outsourcing companies who usually do a poor job. And if you're a contractor trying to get seen through that pile is a nightmare - the only way to succeed to is to watch for new job posts and immediately bid. If there are already a few bids you don't have a chance.