skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like this is a poor piece of journalism. Other sources indicate that the data breach was one of the employee using Limewire to listen to music, accidently sharing thousands of clients informations on the network by that mean.

http://www.govhealthit.com/news/can-ftc-regulate-digital-hea...
I wonder how in Europe "streetcars" (actually "tramways", I don't think anyone here calls them "streetcars") remained popular. From what I've seen in the US the ones that still are running are relics and are mostly tourist attractions (such as San Francisco).

Meanwhile in places like Berlin or Brussles they look like they're out of some SciFi movie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Berlin#/media/File:Bom...

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusselse_tram#/media/File:23_2...
EFF Urges Appeals Court to Shut Down Attempt to Use Copyright to Censor
What I want to know is how all those polls were wrong. The closest I can get is there's a systematic "shy conservative" bias.

It's certainly not a sample size problem. I trust the pollsters understand statistics, and this seems to be the most polled election ever.
Because it depends on geography as voting in the UK is based on who you vote for your local MP.

If UKIP's four million votes were entirely within 20 or 30 constituencies, they'd have won them all. But because their votes are spread out across the entire country, other parties pick up those seats instead.

The parties that do best are either those that get a ton of votes everywhere, or those that dig in and solely focus on specific locations where they can get a majority (the Lib Dems used to be good at this).
I believe the prime minister specifically stated that they would hold the referendum but campaign for people to vote to remain in the EU. I'm guessing at least a subset of his party will campaign on the opposite side.

In a referendum, it's the number of UKIP voters that they'll need to be wary of, not the number of UKIP MPs in the House of Commons as a result of the well-known distortions of the PFTP voting system. In fact, it's the number of people who ever expressed a desire to vote for UKIP that's the worry, even if someone tactically voted Conservative or Labour in the end, that doesn't mean they're going to vote to remain in the EU.

I assume big business will ensure we stay in, but even the two years of uncertainty beforehand is going to be very costly.
I wonder if the power companies want a smart grid. Don't they charge by the watt?
Even My Mum Can Use This Encryption Service (I Know Because I Made Her Try)
My 2 cent on Herokus new pricing
The problem of credit cards is that when you make a payment, you have to give away your private key. No amount of securitisation will take away this fundamental flaw.

This is one of Bitcoin's evolutionary advantages in this space. To send money with Bitcoin, there is no need to expose one's private key. A massive corporation could take millions of annual payments and their paying customers needn't be concerned about their money being at risk. If the entity has poor security, the only people they endanger are themselves.
There's a fair amount of criticism brought up here, but I'd like to say that there are bunch of things that looks very promising, at least in the OS X version. Lots of software like this sucks terribly from a usability perspective, but here you have a nice web page (yeah, you need screenshots), a beautiful icon and a usable GUI.

What I'd REALLY like to see is a way to share one or multiple folders of files with my private darknet. If that's possible or not with the technology you use, I don't know. I've been missing a WASTE[1] like communication tool for as long as I can remember.

I guess one of your "competitors" will be Tox. But going to https://tox.im/ I still can't just download a client without going to a messy wiki and get nightly binaries. How many casual users know what a binary is?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE
No, we wouldn't need this. How we could come to figure out and understand "the brain"[1] without understanding its smaller components is worth several science classes mostly involving maths, most of which I haven't mastered and thus won't arrogantly attempt to explain. We've managed to figure out other complex systems without understanding their components in detail. For one point of comparison, we'd already had a pretty good idea of how inertia and motion worked (Newton's laws) long before we understood in detail the atoms and forces acting upon/between them.

Then there's also the problem of your estimate. 500 years is a rather exaggerated timeframe. Twenty years ago I could've had the most prominent field experts tell me humans would never in the next three hundred years figure out biology even for the simplest of living organisms, because they were simply too irreducibly complex for that. And then a few years ago we simulated an entire worm's nervous system and gave it enough of a body for it to use, move around, and receive input from its entirely-fictional environment. Now we've got people working on doing the same thing with a cat brain. We're nearing breakthroughs in creating fully-synthetic, fully-functional animal organs that you can essentially real-life drag'n'drop to replace a failing natural organ without complications.

Knowing the above, are you really sure it's not 15 rather than 500 years?

[1]. (which is about as meaningful as saying we understand "weather", which is really a huge messy amalgam of many completely unrelated things ranging from fluidic motion and thermodynamics all the way to plate tectonics and even anthropology, after a fashion)
In short: The First Past the Post Voting system.

The Ulster Unionists will get that many votes but in a small number of seats in Northern Ireland. The Conservatives might just win by a small amount but in a large number of seats, each of which translates directly to an MP in Parliament.

For anyone who hasn't watched them , I can wholeheartedly recommend CGP Grey's "Politics in the Animal Kingdom"[0] videos for an brief overview of why FPTP voting is as bad as it seems.

[0] http://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/
Why is there visible angular distortion when you zoom in? It shouldn't happen if you do the Droste effect correctly, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WHdyG9mJaI#t=0m43s
I'm a fan of MERGE in T-SQL. An "upsert" is just one use-case enabled by the statement. Granted for the relatively simple use-case of an "upsert", especially a single row, MERGE has incredibly cumbersome syntax.

But MERGE also, in my opinion, aligns better with set-based logic. I.e., I have two _sets_ of data that I want to merge together. In some cases I want need to INSERT rows into the target, in other cases I need to UPDATE, and in some cases I might DELETE. The <ouput_clause> in T-SQL is also quite useful.
Django has been pretty fantastic about keeping code forward compatible and keeping things very stable and reliable -- I greatly appreciate all of this.

Also a huge fan of Django REST framework for how well it does REST APIs, and in particular, the API browser: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/
How Solitaire Inspired the World’s Most Useful Simulation Tool
Unionists are in the majority in the geographical areas of those two seats (the Northern Irish population is still a little segregated). UKIPpers are not in the majority anywhere (except Clacton, maybe!) but are spread across the entire country.
Crash Courses for the Desperate
From the article: Some of the farms boasted a single oil derrick, pumping out a few barrels a day. “Not enough to live on,” Webster observed, “but a good extra income.”

I don't know about you... but I could probably live on a few barrels a day. A barrel is $60 bucks today. Around 5 barrels a day, everyday, is a 100k annual income.
I've got ten years of photos on Flickr and have been a paying subscriber almost that long.

For me my Flickr is my story of the past ten years: moving to the UK, share housing, meeting my husband, getting married, many fun holidays, having my son. What's important to me is the curation of my story, so features around automatically uploading photos and making albums are not important to me.

The other thing I used to like about Flickr was thoughtful community of people who created beautiful photos. There are still many beautiful photos to look through on there, but to be honest it's less important to me now than it used to be. I'm not really looking to reach out and make new friends in the way I was in 2004. My early photos were almost all public. My current ones are almost all friends and family only.

I probably would be open to considering another service if there was somewhere else I could keep my memories that was as good, but the people who are interested in the detail of my life are already on Flickr and the service is good enough that I can't really be bothered to move. I don't mind that it's not where the cool kids hang out.
Note that the same polls were all pretty accurate in regards to the result in Scotland, which makes the errors even odder (and gives a bit of support to the "shy conservative" theory).

Possibly the highly promoted guides to tactical voting provided by the right-wing press had a disproportionate impact on the marginal seats?
Yeah, I am wondering about the limits of range, package weight, recharging operations and more for this kind of use. There are probably many headaches involved in implementing such projects.
I've seen non-https sites serve up HTTPS iframes. The whole iframe thing just seems like a bad idea for processing credit information. Ignoring HTTP interception, it's difficult for customers to verify that the iframe is indeed coming from an HTTPS site.
Grad school. A graduate program in the humanities is literally the best place in the world to meet interesting women.
ArsTechnica has always been a leader in sponsored articles. You can pretty much tell what any new product article will say, based on the company behind it. Most of their authors have a pervasive pro-Apple bias, with the notable exception of their resident Microsoft fanboy, Peter Bright.
Aikido. Good exercise with a practical point The wrist stretches feel great after typing all day. I enjoy the duality of art in that sometimes you can be aggressive (uke) or learn how to blend with that aggression as nage
http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/ring-download/mac_osx/
We had a referendum on changing the voting system in 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...

The change was rejected 68% to 32%.
It's going to be really interesting to see what happens at Holyrood next year, and what the result of the promised 2017 EU referendum is. Although I am sceptical that we'd see independence before 2020 for Scotland, a big constitutional shakeup does seem to be on the cards.
I think mostly because they don't work seamlessly on desktop/mobile...
A version called light rail is returning. My city built 7 long lines for 4 billion dollars. Most of the lines shadow freeways.
For account management, Tox offers complete decentralization while Jitsi uses federation.
Costs...
How did you get started with something like that? I can barely get a nail straight into a board
"People have gone to jail" - How many?
You can try "Data Science from Scratch" [0] to get some taste. It uses Python to teach essentials of data science, and ML altorithms. The code quality is very good, and there is an introduction to Statistics, Maths and Python to start.

Then you can continue with improving your maths (Linear Algebra [1], Calculus [2], [3]) and moving on with Statistical Learning [4] [5]. I am personally going now through this plan.

[0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033400.do

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mat...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Manifolds-Approach-Classical-...

[4] http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

[5] http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
Now You Can 3-D Print Your Own Copy of NYC's Illegal Snowden Bust
Interesting that Liberal Democrats still have larger % of votes than Green Party after all that happened.
Suppose you have 20 districts, each electing its own MP, and each with exactly four citizens. One citizen in each votes UKIP, one votes Labour, and two vote Conservative. Conservatives will win 20 seats, despite getting only 50% of the national vote, and the other parties will have none despite getting 25% each.
It's not forced. You can very easily not pay the license fee. I don't, and haven't for ~18 months, with the full knowledge of the TV License authority. You just have to follow a simple rule of not watching or listening to live TV or radio broadcasts.
File:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:815042
Finland builds submarine link to Germany to avoid US Internet spying
The author spends so much time complaining about every little thing that happens that I can't tell if this is serious or meant to be satire. How is this any different than someone switching Windows => OSX and complaining about how the keyboard shortcuts are different (b/c obviously there is One True Way)?
Just finished! My main suggestions were to improve the admin interface, more speed and more polish. I use it for simple CRUD apps all the time.

I also suggested that they improve the production deployment situation somehow. I spent two days the first time I deployed a Django app to production, between installing supervisor, gunicorn, nginx, mysql, etc and debugging all the issues. (Mostly getting paths right, and having the wrong .'s in imports.)
Climbing gyms? They're plentiful these days, so chances are there's at least one in your town (or seven if you're in a major city). $15 will get you a daypass to try it out, and it's comparable to any other gym membership in cost long term.

As to climbing outside, rock shoes cost $150 and the internet will tell you everything you need about where to go and how to do it.
Actually, I already provide this in the release notes. A PROTOCOL_VERSION bump means restarting tmux. We didn't do this between 1.9a -> 2.0, hence why it wasn't mentioned. Look at the release notes for 1.9, you'll see it was mentioned there. Simples.
The Neandertal race supposedly has the modern form of this gene.
That's right, you can't send me patches as they're to be sent to the tmux mailing list. Is this not made clear already in the repository description?
I play in a soccer league once a week and then pickup basketball whenever I feel like (Which is basically every day in the summer). You get to interact with people, exercise and have fun.
"...have the ability to adjust to different environments..."

Likewise being able to know when a new technology is just a short-living fad despite being popular.
>> "Now they can get to business"

Yep. Selling off the NHS. Taking money from the poor and disabled. And offering an EU referendum which at the very least will hurt the economy for a while and if it passes will decimate it. Back to business as usual.
there isn't much difference between a secure cookie and a JWT. Well, except that JWT is just signed, not encrypted, so your cookie contents are visible. Also, JWT has issues, https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-i.... The main thing is that you have added nothing by using JWT, cause you still can't expire a specific token without storing some kind of "token status" in the database.
> So for the past 5 years, it's been almost all the work of sds, Sam Steingold. Huh. I was expecting Bruno Haible to still be involved, but he seems to be doing almost nothing nowadays. Well, it's not unusual for a free project to be the labour of only a single person, but it's typical to have a lot of small drive-by contributions. Almost nobody except sds has done anything for CLISP for the last five years

This is how you smell a future dead project.

If only one person has done anything significantly, with nobody around to "pick up the chops" and learn the code-base, chances of anyone willing to pick up 147MB of sources and claiming responsibility for it is pretty slim.

On the flip side, we do have a gazillion free Common Lisp implementations around. If this one falls dead, will the Common Lisp community have lost anything of significance?

From what I can tell, the only ones "losing" something here would be GNU losing a thing they can claim being made by them, a feather from their highly featured hat.

But my general impression is that GNU is already critically understaffed anyway, so it might actually do them some good, and avoid having dead-weight like this steal resources from their remaining projects.

Opinions?
Can you elaborate on the solutions in frontend?

Currently I'm working on a project and I want to use React "the right way". While it's not so hard to just integrate React into Django project, it's not so easy to manage the chaos when things start to grow. At the moment I'm trying to integrate React, webpack, gulp and node (server side rendering for react) into Django workflow and make it work "natural", but right now it just feels hacky and not the way I want it to work.

Would be great if you could share your workflows & ideas.
I recommend starting with Andrew Ng's ML course on Coursera. He teaches and presents the subject in a way that is both fun and non-intimidating to a beginner. You get a good overview of techniques, and get to try out fun exercises like digit recognition.
I don't really feel any better off having read this. It's informative sure, but it makes me wonder how often Ian Hardy was distracted when he wrote it. Just imagine what the life of a pencil pushing journalist working for the BBC within the billboard clustered highrise capital of the world (New York) would actually be like.

I'm going to take a rough guess he's not well off, especially given the quite blatant product placement for "Focus", the music streaming service. Does he go home satisfied every night with the 500 words his boss tell him to push out?

Sorry... I'm being mean now. I do agree, totally, social media is the devil and it's destroying the minds of my family, both senior and junior, professional and unprofessional. It's mind melting gobbledy goop that I wish would die to make way for more intelligent discussion on forums such as this one.

Thanks for the post though, it's got me thinking, not about stuff that I haven't already thought of before. Not even something I necessarily relate to, but it's got me thinking about what not to turn into.
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I usually think of immutability in terms of saving myself from getting bitten :-)
Visa is slow at updating their site. MasterCard is much faster, you can find their list at http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/docs/SP_Post_List.pd....
response.content_type = date.today()

>Holy hell, my content type is a fucking day and Python happily spits out the resulting gibberish.

I think this is one of those cases where the 'we are all consenting adults' mantra applies. I have a really hard time imagining a scenario in which anyone I know would write that line of code deliberately, and an even harder time imagining one where a date gets passed as content type accidentally.
Fuck your website, it doesnt provide any valuable explanation of what it is and how its supposed to work.

I too can make a website, and say, "Shit, AES128, Encrypted, Peer2Peer communication, DHT, Hash Tables, MAC, safety concern".
Some context though:

* the alternative was a bit rubbish, only a minor improvement to the status quo, compared with the systems already successfully in use in Scotland and Wales which combine local representation with PR.

* both main parties and their tame press convinced people that it would basically lead to a combination of anarchy, communism and fascism in order to maintain their hold on power at the expense of democracy.
what is "holyrood next year"?
Prosecutors have wide discretion in whether or not to charge people. Perhaps they should exercise that discretion.
The device's battery life counts for a lot if I want to use it to track my sleep. Can't do that if I have to take it off so I can charge it overnight.
Agreed but their product is mobile-first. They want to attract those people that spend 90% of their time on their smartphones. It's like asking why did Supercell / Clash of Clans not launch a web version first :)
The "tame press". Seriously?
The rise and rise of open source: Open source has won
One that doesn't try to load dynamic objects on runtime like glibc does, if you use certain functions.
Practical Combinatorial Testing (2010) [pdf]
>> "I would credit this to them being the most "centre" of the parties"

I thought the liberal democrats (at least before the coalition) were the most left leaning of the major parties.
Elections for the devolved Scottish Parliament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_general_el...
You don't have permission to access /ring-download/mac_osx/ring-nightly.dmg on this server.

Lol
> How many calculations did I just do?

Probably not that many. Let's say you create a water-skipping robot with two different AI programs in it and a shaky, not very precise arm (but still as good as a human arm in terms of specs).

One is custom-made to the physics of the problem, and will calculate the angles and the forces and the pressures and the candy tasty physekz all over, and then decide on a particular motion of the robot arm, and the rock will skip. It'll take a lot of computing power, but it'll work.

The other just has a goal, to see the rock skip, and tries things at semi-random (though it has the general knowledge that it can be done and that it has to throw the rock towards the water in a particular way for it to happen and that it can control the outcome), and tries to figure out patterns between what it did and what happened as a result. Eventually, it has a particular tactic, a certain set of instructions, which could be "down down down the left thing and up up right down down the right thing and the up thing does down down up push push down push twist-force-2 at the same time", an entirely not at all complicated set of instructions with very little computation. This signal is sent through other nodes that might not have the perfect signal number, and eventually this outputs to the arm's motors... which nevertheless manage to make the rock skip, because the motion here is almost the same as the motion of the first AI, yet this one was obtained by eliminating the ones that didn't result in the rock skipping.

TL;DR: You don't do that many calculations on the spot. The "maths" in most situations like this is done by elimination throughout all the attempts you've made in your life to control a throw. Subsequent throws once you're already a practiced rock-skipper just involve firing "the same neurons as usual" which send "the same signals as usual" to your muscles, which result in the same skipping as usual, with very little math. If you already know that 2x^5 + 20 = 110 implies x = 45 from doing the same calculation twenty times in the past hour, your brain isn't performing "calculations" anymore, it's just repeating a pattern that's already there in your brain like a table lookup.
They where the centre party before Blair brought Labour to the center/center-right from its original leftist position.

Then the Coalition got you tories if you'd voted lib dems, what is the point of voting LD then?
Well, at least there won't be too much overspending. So it worked out well this time.

Any democratic system is flawed - e.g. letting both tax-generators and tax-consumers vote.
My understanding is that while people may go to jail in relation with the BBC license, they go to jail for not paying the fine, not as a result of not having purchased the license. Now, you may disagree with the fact that people face imprisonment over a fine, but that's a different matter.
Get your fundamentals down. Focus heavily on linear algebra and probability theory.

If you think you've nailed Python, go ahead and look at NumPy and SciPy - they're different enough from Python, and they crop up very often in ML.
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