skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until the late '60s or early '70s, no one worried about the pollution so long as the economic engine was running strong. There were clear days that you couldn't see half a mile in Pittsburgh PA [1], and entire rivers of volatile chemicals catching fire [2]. We've done a lot to curb those excesses but I agree with your primary sentiment. Why pollute at all if we can avoid it?

Interestingly, China's current economic growth is also fueled without consideration of the environment. You can still travel on coal-fired steam locomotives ... and they're not historic excursions but rather new technology.

We also have to look at renewable combustibles as some people will claim they're not dependent on fossil fuels but they're still contributing to carbon release when burning wood (or wood pellets) as fuel.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pittsburgh+steel+mill+smog&b...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=cleveland+river+fire&sa=X&bi...
There are orders of magnitude more users of services like Google Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap than separate apps like Google Earth. If a non-savvy map user has a simple question, they’re unlikely to turn to Google Earth.

Anyhow, I think the “earth” view of Google Maps is a “let’s make something that looks cool in a 2 minute demo” gimmick, not a serious tool. When zoomed out, it adds fake atmosphere, arbitrary static clouds which entirely cover some countries, and silly reflection effects. Its user interface is laggy and glitchy as heck, even on top-of-the-line current hardware. It’s impossible to look at either the arctic or antarctic head-on, as the rotation of the globe is strictly constrained.

More generally, orthographic projections have a place as a reference to compare maps to a view on a 3D globe, but they make it impossible to answer many kinds of questions because they involve severe distortions in any particular view, and it’s impossible to see more than about 40% of the globe at a time. Even a draggable orthographic projection makes it difficult to make inferences about distances, directions, and areas that are easy on a physical globe or on the appropriate flat map. Furthermore, satellite pictures are a wonderful tool sometimes, and a nearly useless tool other times.
Having read a few of your other comments I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on ways in which we could harden Android (on here or via email).

Our focus now is indeed adding memory protections to the underlying OS, to get Android up to date with at least 2004-era exploit mitigation. Before moving on to higher-level stuff :)
That's so true. It's called an externality in the economics jargon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
It is sad that the post fails to acknowledge that hyperparameter tuning may also be a source of overfitting (and very often is) -- one should always treat is as a part of training and validate as such, for instance by using nested CV. And never ever report accuracy straight from tuning as a final result.
It doesn't matter what the police offer, if he chooses to hire a hitman (even a fake one) with their help, he's guilty, because an innocent person would say "no".

You don't get to kill other people to cover up your own crimes, period. Self-defense is the only possible justification, and that requires an imminent threat to his life (or at least grievous bodily injury). Threats to incriminate you don't count for anything.

Please refer to the guide, it explains all of these myths. If you think things work some other way, cite law to the contrary.
I know some people who use Matlab to take data and every once in a while their experiments "break" due to forgetting to update their licenses.

Also for a long time Matlab broke on systems using the new Linux network interface naming convention (i.e. en0 instead of eth0) since the license manager was stupid.
RDDs are the new bytecode of Apache Spark
E&P companies are effectively subsidized through wildly favorable tax treatment that allows them to expense all capital costs upfront which are usually not deductible. Most independent E&P's (ie the ones who are almost entirely responsible for the shale boom) pay virtually no cash taxes whatsoever.
Friendly note: you’re using “large scale” and “small scale” precisely the opposite of the way geographers/cartographers use those terms. A “large scale” map is one that is zoomed in on one tiny area, while a “small scale” map is one showing a large region or the whole world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(map)#Large_scale.2C_med...
Hopping on the top comment to provide a more serious answer than some below..

http://www.mailbait.info/
Little John, Maid Marion, Robin Hood, The Sherriff

> Men: Perhaps you tend to idealize women and credit them with virtues they don't possess.

Swap Maid Marion and Robin Hood:

> Men: You are sexually inhibited with an underlying distrust of women.

This is crap. It seems putting Maid Marion in the top half means you credit women too much, and putting her in the bottom half means you discredit her too much.
I use this on Windows to switch between my mobo soundcard (speakers) and a wireless USB headset without having to remove and re-insert the USB dongle.

I just have two desktop shortcuts with speaker and headphone icons that call the Nircmd setdefaultsoundevice command.

Very useful.
I can't upvote this enough times... Yup, you really nailed it.
Assuming your question is not rhetorical, do you mean 'why is this on the front page of Hacker News', or 'why is this on Hacker News?'

If your question is the former, and thus regarding rank, then there are a few resources from where you could begin pursuing an answer to your inquiry [0].

If your question is the latter, Hacker News has clear guidelines [1]. When I find something is not immediately of interest to me, I like to pause thinking about myself for a moment and ask myself, 'would this be of interest to others in the community?'

Further, based on the recency of the post and upvotes, the answer to that question is 'yes, there are some numbers of 'hackers' or Hacker News readers who find this article interesting.'

[0] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: LibreSSL symmetric encryption using ChaCha20 (openssl -enc)
Seems you can use command line option "openssl -enc -cipher chacha" with LibreSSL for file encryption however the documentation doesn't mention this as a supported cipher. Is it insanity to use a stream cipher for data at rest or should I stick to what the manpage for Libre/OpenSSL recommends which is "a strong block cipher in CBC mode such as bf or des3".
Nope. it's the JVM overhead. Try -nojvm.
AQUAMAN!
LinkedIn has been the primary source of most of my spam the last year; it deserves to be near the top of any list.
At least in Germany this is not true, train ridership is on a steady rise [0]: DB serviced 14 million passengers more in 2014 compared to the previous year.

[0] http://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/im_blickpunkt/9010944...
Those of us with experiments in Antarctica really dislike Google's Mercator projection.
It depends on your definition of "normal speed". If it's 80 km/hour, then it is limited to regional rail or sleeper overnight trains. If it's 150 km/hour, it's already kind of fast if you ask me.
Remember folks: social science != science.
How German Investigators Found Lost Nazi Art
Inside Formation 8's Secret Strategy to Invest in Hardware
I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 Mate on a Toshiba Satellite P55t B5340. i7, 16GB ram and 500GB SSD. Also has 4k screen, but I run in 1920 x 1080 since I can't get good scaling with Mate. I really like this notebook. Nice keyboard also. Has numeric keypad which is nice.
We still need to separate commuter rail, regional and intercity. Intercity is smallest on the basis of ridership but it makes up with distance travelled, ticket prices and economic importance.
Dangling resources are common in any language. Ports don't get reclaimed, file descriptors are opened and never closed... the same principles apply.

Its funny since I actually started writing code for particle accelerator research as well, although it was a mixture of terrible C and F77. Physicists and mathematicians are good at their respective fields, but not necessarily coding sadly (I used to be both). Would the code have been better with a different language? Doubtful. They used literally zero established patterns and wrote everything with copy paste and with zero regard for what the machine actually did.

To each their own though. I'm glad your projects and line of work afford you the ability to work with a GC. Mine do not.
> US oil majors pay among the highest corporate tax rates on earth.

How much do you know about this? I've heard this statement, and I've heard it's a myth, that it only refers to one tax of many and that overall the overall tax rate in the US is relatively low for corporations. However, I have no independent knowledge would like to learn more.

Also, they don't pay for two enormous externalities: The military and wars in the Middle East, and climate change.
The reason I enjoy these kind of stories is the uptime. I know it is not a real indicator of anything but I enjoy seeing machines that have been running for years. (I used to frequent a website were people actually tracked their uptimes).

One of my favorites was this one, on ARS:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-u...
I'm giving two totally different answers for morality and honesty. Why are they conflated?
> Do I even have that fine-grained control in iOS?

You do. Settings > Application Name > Notifications > (Dis)Allow Notifications
I think you've got a point there that can be reinforced by looking at the ratio of Haskellers vs. those comfortable with splitting things out to (.) or (>=>)

Critically, however, one does not need to be good at abstracting out code in Haskell to be happy and productive using Haskell.

We need to be careful not to move on the goalposts on our beginners, it's deeply unfair and frustrating if we make them think they can't do anything at all until they can do it perfectly.
> The US environment overall is doing extraordinarily well in fact

I strongly disagree; climate change is likely on track to be catastrophic, and the United States is the biggest cause.
And all it takes is one college kid a weekend to break your system. And you’ll lose more than half of your revenue stream.
I mostly agree, but I'll say (usually at the cost of more complexity upfront) you can encode quite a bit of logic into Haskell's type system.

But yes, you can easily create a beautiful specification for the wrong thing. I think that is worlds better than accidentally creating the right thing. We want precision right? Not to brute force try solutions until one seems to work that blows up later?
"Well, personally, I've never been exposed to other projections until 28 years…"

That is vanishingly unlikely. These are projections you have practically certainly seen:
https://www.mapthematics.com/ProjectionsList.php?Projection=...
https://www.mapthematics.com/ProjectionsList.php?Projection=...
https://www.mapthematics.com/ProjectionsList.php?Projection=...
https://www.mapthematics.com/ProjectionsList.php?Projection=...

And many others. Also, people often mistake any rectangular projection for Mercator. I have even seen this happen in academic literature.
As far as I understand, none for production use. I see that nginx implements SPDY (HTTP2 is based on SPDY), but not yet HTTP2. They promise to bring HTTP2 by end of year though - http://nginx.com/blog/how-nginx-plans-to-support-http2/ .
Good for him. This "freedom act" bait and switch is nonsense IMOP. I don't care much about politics, nor about Paul, but on this issue I agree. They need to sit down and develop a comprehensive plan without the secrecy (except at operational levels), without the sensationalism and fear mongering and without the blatant and quickly revealed lies that have come out of NSA personal and Obama's mouths.

Most importantly, we need to be clear on the objectives. As it is there is a pervasive dirty feeling that the the ulterior motive is surveillance and control of US citizenry for purposes of retaining power. This might not be the case but with the amount of deceit that has recently occurred many people feel this way. So they need to start over in a transparent and trustworthy way.
The charge of stupidity could equally well be levelled at the gratuitous change to interface naming.
It's useful (although the tools for extracting mail passwords and wifi keys see far more use from me). Nirsoft tools have saved me hours, especially SysExporter (iirc).

I'm not seeing the "news" aspect though.
>at least 95% of humans worldwide are omnivorous.

That even sounds like a pretty conservative figure to me. Lacto-ovo vegetarians are a class of omnivore, too, and I have a really hard time believing anything within an order of magnitude of 5% of humans are strict vegetarians.
> ...which would you use and why?

Python. I prefer it as a language over PHP and I'm more comfortable developing and deploying Python projects.

> Additionally, how should the user data be protected in transmission?

HTTPS?
I actually did exactly that.
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography: ECDH and ECDSA
Yes, but it was enough to distract 99% of kiddies from copycatting it. 1% wasn't a threat to business. Just a sale that would never happen anyways.
Mailbait looks helpful for a project of mine, thank you for sharing!

I used GenSpam [1] for my thesis on spam filtering, but it doesn't seem to be as comprehensive as others out there, plus using a corpus instead of 'live' email might not be quite what the original poster wants.

[1] http://www.benmedlock.co.uk/genspam.html
I've used the same approach for my last two laptops. Currently on a T430s. Only thing I'd add is to get a laptop with a integrated Intel Graphics card if you're not doing anything that's graphics intensive. You won't have to fight with proprietary drivers, and the built in display manager / keyboard shortcuts will work properly.
Subsidies are sometimes the only way that amazing things like this can happen. Extremely rare opportunities are often expensive to take advantage of. Without spreading the cost the way a nation-state can, there might not be enough people willing to support efforts to, say, get GPS satellites into space and enable entirely new industries and technologies.

Sure, it might not be with the explicit support of every taxpayer who contributed, but that will happen in every government just as it will happen in a family trying to decide where to vacation.

I, for one, hope that subsidies continue to go to those who can take us new places. As long as it's not purely because it's some congressman's nephew's new company.
I don't think the difference is as big as you think it is e.g Central London to Central Glasgow.

Tube 30mins -> Euston 4h15m -> Glasgow Central -> 10m cab ride = 4h55m

Tube 30mins -> Liverpool St 45m -> Stanstead 1h -> Fly 1hr -> security/reclaim 30mins -> 20min cab ride =4h05m

But on the train you get 4 hrs uninterrupted work time and first class is often only £10-20 extra and gets you unlimited free food, booze and wifi. Way better value than a BA flight
There's also this:

> Nevada at first offered its standard package of incentives, in this case worth $600 million to $700 million

Considering that there is such a thing as a "standard package of incentives" from a single state and it already amounts to about half of the largest listed bullet points in this article makes this sound almost ordinary.
Is there any way to buy a kit for a nondestructive scanner?

1dollarscan is rumored to be watermarking/encoding the customer name in their scans. If you highly magnify the page image, there are a large number of small artifacts, which may explain the large file sizes, e.g. 150MB for a 400 page book.

Their service ($1 per 100 pages) is cost-effective, given that Staples will charge $2 to remove the spine from a book, without scanning. A spine cutter costs a few hundred dollars.
still sounds like an Aussie.
Licensing helped to collect recurring fees from existing customers. Yearly "Maintenance" fee ~= 20% of initial license in my case. So it helped.

Actually I welcomed curious customers to buy (for much higher, unpublished fee) fully open sourced version.

Nowadays any PHP/wordpress plugin type of business is based on sand anyways just because $500 on freelancer can get you really far in replicating pretty much anything.

I figured that its better to take the money if offered.
"It starts with a lie"

Web Mercator is a Mercator projection, so it's not a lie, just slightly imprecise.

"which is admitted in the very end of the post"

The post discusses Web Mercator in the second sentence.

"The most obvious reason to use web-mercator is it is easily computed."

Which the article discusses.

"For me, as a user, it is inconvenient. I almost never care for north to be exactly on top."

Google maps has a lot of users with various use cases. For uses involving directions, conformal maps are better, and the maps are heavily used for that. All engineering decisions are compromises, Google's compromises apparently were the best for their expected use cases.
Dell xps 13 developer edition comes with Ubuntu
Haven't tried that yet, but I moved over to iOS so this is not relevant anymore, but thanks.
The Medieval Fragments Project: when crowdsourcing doesn’t work
I didn't know about that option; I must have missed it at the time, or it wasn't available back then. I'll give it a go, thanks!
It depends on the extent of the map. For local areas, what you suggest is just fine. At the scale of a continent, it’s problematic, and gets more and more problematic as you zoom out.
He was found guilty of a wide-ranging criminal enterprise. I've already quoted the judge's own words regarding what DPR was charged (and later convicted) of, but HN seems to think it's a lot different than what the court documents reflect.

Further, offering you hitman services is NOT entrapment. This would never ensnare an innocent person: they'd say no!

To the best of my knowledge, DPR's lawyers have not even alleged that the police committed any crimes. That would have allowed them to suppress the evidence and, as learned in the link I posted earlier, the evidence that he hired a hitman WAS allowed in court because it was part of the crimes he was charged with.

I did reply to your other post about it 'not being his idea'. That EXACT argument is explained in the law guide, right here: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=646

The short answer is that, even if they offer you a hitman, all you ever had to do was say no. Giving you an opportunity is not entrapment. It just shows that if it hadn't been for the police, you would have committed a crime (solicitation for murder, here).

Finally, 'due process' means that he had his day in court. He got that and was sentenced by a jury of his peers. You can disagree with the reasons behind it, but there are good reasons for these rules which are clearly explained in the guide.

The fact that he was willing to deal with hitmen is the problem here. It's not self-defense, nor can it be. It's not a solution a non-criminal would ever accept. The fact that he had only bad solutions was due to his own guilt--there would be no illegal activities for the blackmailer to expose if he had not engaged in any. And if the blackmail was false, he'd have every reason to want to cooperate with the police and prove his innocence by working with them to catch the blackmailer.
This thread's lack of comments by libertarians is striking. It gives the impression that some of them (I don't know who) are not opposed to government taxes and spending in principle, as they often claim, but to government taxes and spending on things they don't like -- which isn't a principle or argument, it's just a self-centered complaint.

It reminds me of people who talk about freedom as a principle, but what they mean is freedom for themselves.
'McCarthyite' website targets pro-Palestine supporters
At least for German signalling rules, these sites are trying to explain it in English: http://www.sh1.org/eisenbahn/index.htm or http://www.joernpachl.de/German_principles.htm (Railway Engineering professor)
The issue is more that as soon as that one percent decrypts it, the source will be on piratebay within of just a few hours.
Great idea, will use.

One thing I'd really like to see is cheat sheets. For example, "regex cheatsheet".
Thanks, that brings it closer in startup time to Octave. However, it disables the ability to make plots, which is a quite severe limitation.
Don't you think it's a bit disingenuous to compare worldwide taxes and worldwide revenue with US subsidies? How much did they pay in income taxes to the US government?
If you're willing to keep your photos in Dropbox and have the space for it, take a look at Carousel.

Carousel respects whatever folder naming convention you have. All photos in your dropbox show up in Carousel's photo list.

Pictures on Carousel are always saved to the "Carousel" folder in your dropbox, but you can move them around to respect your preferred folder structure without damaging anything.
This doesn't appear to be social science either, though; more like a horoscope.

To the point of your comment though, I don't understand why anyone would think that applying scientific principles to humans and human interaction is any less valid a use of our time than any other application of the same methods.
Click through to the full answer list. Most seem to result in insults to one's personal character.
Best I could find was this:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/L5Lothlv...

It also led to a real world example where the author tried using Go for a project and had a lot of need for Generics:

http://oneofmanyworlds.blogspot.com/2011/11/draft-2-of-propo...
That didn't happen for me.

I did Maid Marion, Little John, The sheriff, Robin hood and the answer was about spot on.

If I switched LJ and MM it was okay. Although I tend to think of myself as adventurous.

I can't even conceive of putting MM after RH though. Assuming no preconceived notions he just acted like a total jerk.
Drugs don't do anywhere near as much harm as drug prohibition.
I just started using hledger (http://hledger.org/) for personal double-entry bookkeeping. So far it is pretty awesome. Some of the things I like over, say, Mint:

* I can keep arbitrary asset, liability, and expense categories in a tree-like structure.

* I can split up transactions between different accounts. This is useful because I can split a dinner bill between my credit card and cash. It is also useful because I can split items from a large Amazon order into their respective categories.

* The ledger file is a very simple text file, so I can keep it in version control.

* I haven't taken advantage of the report features yet, but they look very flexible. You can add up any accounts you want based on regular expressions.

* You can have "virtual" accounts that can be used for budgets. For example, you can set aside arbitrary chunks of your savings account for different purposes and keep track of them separately, even though they all actually reside in your savings account at your bank.

I will take a look a hinance to see how it could be useful for me!
Interesting, but I'd be surprised if anyone who reads HN chose anything other than some permutation of {{Maid Marion, Little John}, {Robin Hood, The Sheriff}}, which cuts down the answer space by a factor of 6.

My own ranking was MM, LJ, RH, S. Did anyone choose something different from that? Or seriously choose anything different than one of the four permutations above?