skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How often do you really get -40 plus significant wind chill anywhere in the world. Even your traditional 'cold' cities rarely see temperatures below -25C (-13F).

I'd venture that anything down, say -10C (15F), assuming moderate wind, doesn't cause much real problem for walking.

If you want the least pleasant weather for walking I'd say half a degree above freezing and pouring rain wins every time.
The Trouble with Bools
A Really Crappy Home?
Ask HN: P2P Projects Worthy of Allocating Server Resources To?
Hi,

I'm aware of Tor, & don't want to get involved in all the negativity that comes from running it on my own IP address.

What other P2P projects exist which do something for the common good?

The box I have in mind isn't Debian, so Freedombox isn't feasible. And it seems the distributed computing/storage projects out there aren't mature enough to even install- (Maidsafe, Storj).

I already have another GUI'ified server running Bitcoin, Litecoin, Namecoin, & BitShares nodes. They don't use so much power- just a bunch of memory. What I'm looking for now would run on a headless server.

What else is there that I could contribute bandwidth & cycles to?
Yeah, but let's see the results :)
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That's not what I want because I only want to apply that to some sites.

I even wrote "And on some (but not all) [...]" to make clear that global rules are not the same as hierarchical matches.
And, as it turns out, the original recommendation to go with /48s turned out to be insufficiently flexible, and was overridden with https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6177.

In particular, some ISPs will hand out a /56 - allowing the home user 256 /64s. But, once again, these are administrative routing decisions - on the interface, it's always a /64 or (in some rare cases - though I'd love to hear if people still see this in the wild) /127s for router-router connections.

You will never, ever see, for example, a /72 IPv6 network in the wild.
Yes! There's actually a name for exactly this effect in economics, if anyone's interested: The Alchian Allen Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect
A lot of what you've listed either ships along with other software as libraries on platforms like Windows and Mac and/or ship as part of linux distos. Hence SF would not benefit spending time infecting these and as a consequence, the owners have little reason to move away from SF.
Sure, but I'm not sure how to retain the ambiguity in translation. I don't think "Make love to each other" is a valid literal translation of "Liebt einander" (that would be "Macht Liebe mit einander"). It's intentionally ambiguous because of the juxtaposition with "get thirsty".
>Should I sell my soul to the devil and work on freemium, coins, exploit OCD and rich-parents kids,

You can do freemium without selling your soul. Look at LoL or Path of Exile for the best examples. Others would be Bloons TD 5 or Bloons City, where coins allow you to skip ahead, but slow downs are not purposefully added. Only when you add something that basically drains the fun out of the game unless money is spent are you selling your soul.
`$` is the point of entry to almost everything jquery provides, so he's not implementing jquery's `$` since the gist does not come even remotely close to jquery's featureset. He's implementing a completely different function with the same name.

If behaviour is considered irrelevant, here's my one-line implementation of $:

var $;
For everyone that wants to start working with Spark and Big Data, I recommend them to enrole into this MOOC published by UC Berkeley at EDX: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-big-data-apache-spar...
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Isn't flash disabled by default in tor browser bundle (TBB)? I assume most reasonable Tor users rely on TBB.
My irony detector does not function well on Monday mornings. You are serious in considering Henry James a middling literary figure, Pearl Buck an important one, and the Nobel a sound measure of literary achievement?
What the fuck is this? This is soooo fucking shit.
It is literally a random collections of websites.
I am so angry and disappointed. I going to slap you with an oily dorrito flavoured fish
Another thing people do when they're trying to sound erudite is ostentatiously [1] link definitions to concepts they think their readers can't look up for themselves.

1. Don't do that
Although the method of the attack didn't directly break Tor/VPN, the nature of it has compromised confidence in those technologies.

What good is using Tor or a VPN if I can't be sure any web page I load will compromise me? Suddenly every single link becomes a potential land mine... is the web server compromised? Is it safe?

You could argue that, of course, loading a malicious web page will do malicious things. But in this case, the malicious code is compromising all further web activity as well from the sounds of it.
That was covered in the Mother Jones article:

"Reyes discovered that this reduction wasn't uniform. In fact, use of leaded gasoline varied widely among states, and this gave Reyes the opening she needed. If childhood lead exposure really did produce criminal behavior in adults, you'd expect that in states where consumption of leaded gasoline declined slowly, crime would decline slowly too. Conversely, in states where it declined quickly, crime would decline quickly. And that's exactly what she found.

Meanwhile, Nevin had kept busy as well, and in 2007 he published a new paper looking at crime trends around the world (PDF). This way, he could make sure the close match he'd found between the lead curve and the crime curve wasn't just a coincidence. Sure, maybe the real culprit in the United States was something else happening at the exact same time, but what are the odds of that same something happening at several different times in several different countries?

Nevin collected lead data and crime data for Australia and found a close match. Ditto for Canada. And Great Britain and Finland and France and Italy and New Zealand and West Germany. Every time, the two curves fit each other astonishingly well. When I spoke to Nevin about this, I asked him if he had ever found a country that didn't fit the theory. "No," he replied. "Not one.""
You're correct, but I think the utility of knowing about compilers is underrated. There have been a few front page posts recently that demonstrate very naive machine models. E.g. a few days ago there was this post

> Writing Go took me a little longer since I had to implement
a lot of functionality provided for me in Ruby. However, for
every task it also made me think about what the computer
actually does.

http://jorin.me/textstat/

Building a naive cost model for Ruby isn't so difficult if you know how compilers work. Believing that Go provides a model of what the computer actually does is rather naive. Both of these can be addressed by spending a bit of time studying compilers.
> jQuery doesn't use the native NodeList for various reasons

Those reasons being:

* because it's garbage

* because native objects shouldn't (and may not necessarily be) extended

* because static nodelists didn't even exist back when jquery was created

* because you can't create a nodelist in userland code
"Linux distro maintainers wanted to move on from SysV Init"

LOL no. distro maintainers wanted to ship gnome, which was product tied to systemd. No systemd, no gnome, that simple.
Blackberries are hardy, and will grow well in many climates that get rain. You may be able to grow them in the Bay Area, with limited productivity. Of course you'd have better luck with some irrigation, or at the edge of your yard if you use sprinklers. They can spread broadly though, so much so that in certain areas they can be invasive (Portland, OR, for example). Planting blackberries is not something to enter into lightly since they're a pain to remove (quite literally; there are thorns).

Blueberries on the other hand are more difficult: they require bright (but not necessarily direct) light, ample rainfall, acidic soil (pH 4-5), and limited competition. We frequently have to cut away grape vines that grow on bushes and block sunlight. Birds, bears, and other woodland creatures also love blueberries so you have to beat them to the bushes.
And it breaks a lot of web sites.
The NYT title, "Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools", is more accurate than the HN title. China has not "compromised" TOR and VPNs, they've circumvented them. They remain intact and working as designed. "Compromosed" is the wrong word here. "Circumvent" is the correct word.
I think I remember the time CloudFlare came to Johannesburg sometime last year. Lots of sites had very dramatic speed boosts.

Also, latency came down to 80ms which is a huge deal. With ADSL it is sub 20ms. Of the major websites, it was only Google that was local at that point.
I'm a little unsure of the reasoning I was downvoted for providing honest feedback to the question the OP asked. Would anyone care to clarify?
Chicken is injected with water combos not simply to plump them up, it's called a brine.

By all means buy your poultry without being brined, I prefer mine with it.

Here's a nice "why" people do this:

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/cooking-tips-techniqu...
Firefox has bookmark tags and it takes just one click to make a bookmark (it is put into "Unsorted bookmarks" folder, but you can usually find them through typing a relevant keyword into the URL bar)
Yes we do.

These studies put "that which we already know" on a testable basis and also allow us to look at the underlying mechanisms, often we find that the underlying mechanism is counter-intuitive to our assumptions (this is often the case, the universe rarely works the way we'd expect) so dismissing it with "Of course, we knew that" is frequently wrong.

You say "eating well is good for your health" but of course eating well is predicated on knowing which things to eat for health and how do we know that via studies on human nutrition of course!.
Rethinking security: Securing activities instead of computers
Freedom vs. Security: the battle for your happiness
jQuery uses CSS selectors, which is fairly clear if you have a general understanding of them.
Jsonrates API has been integrated into currencylayer API
@dang: if one flags such a click-baity headline, will the account get banned/shadowed for that task? How do I know if my account has crossed the invisible line? Who can check that? The karma ratio indicator vanished from the profile page.

HN title reads: China has now compromised VPNs and Tor
Malware attacks give criminals 1,425% return on investment
How data-centric security works
What if I also eat chocolate?
Reminded me of the "The Chemical Abstract Machine" http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~fvalenci/papers/cham.pdf
OPM hack: Vast amounts of extremely sensitive data stolen
The version of uBlock Origin on AMO is higher than the version of uBlock, so at least for Firefox uBlock Origin seems better maintained.
Pascal got a very nice property - it can be compiled in one pass, literally, by spitting out code while parsing. Nothing can be simpler than that. Interpretation is significantly more complicated.
Charles Dickens, another "compulsive" walker.
The interesting take away here is that Chinese web services deliberately delay/don't patch their services to accommodate Chinese spoofing. In this case the JSONP vulnerability from 2013 allows them to hack a users computer, thereby compromising any data on that computer.

Neither tor nor Vpn is compromised.
Never trust a statistic you didn't forge yourself. First of all, I would have to be convinced that the phenomena compared are actually commensurate. This topic has just too many agendas attached to it to make it credible that any two observers would actually apply the same metric, let alone over 25 years.
OS-wise it's probably already turned on. If you take your Mac OSX or Linux PC into an IPv6 network, it will just work. There are however few such networks, because ISPs don't really givae a fuck (also they need to change their configurarion/equipment/CPEs).

Some of the nicer profits of IPv6 for hacker is that you can host servers at home, and expose them to friends/clients.

As for "spying", yes someone (a website you connect to) can figure out whether it's you or your roommate who are connecting. But they can figure that out by browser headers, anyway. This is also partially mitigated by RFC4941.
You are referring to an AST interpreter, right?
Curious about what your concerns with Spark were? I work for a company that supports Spark development, but I don't work closely with that project, so my opinion is not sufficiently well-informed, and obviously biased.

As far as I know, virtually any MapReduce job can be rather trivially translated to Spark's .map() and .reduce() operations. And the downsides are: it's model hasn't yet been proven at the largest scale's MapReduce has been used, and possibly the use of Scala (although Java / Python bindings are obviously available). Were there any other major factors in your hesitance?
While in general the people on HN are more likely to be in or working in a field related to the tech field (so it's hard for me to generalize outside of this industry demographic from a culturally anecdotal standpoint) I feel that in the tech field, the hot spots are Bay Area and Austin TX, though there are tech jobs everywhere, people are willing to decrease their cash flow as there is a cultural elitism with living in Bay Area or Austin in the world of tech. Portland and Seattle trailing behind as well.

On this note, it seems that even spanning beyond industry demographics, this article overlooked the possibility of culture and beliefs. For examples, if you are raised in the religious south, it's very likely even if you move across multiple state lines, you will be more likely to move to a place where religion is more prevalent culturally than elsewhere. Maybe this is not true however. Maybe young people raised in the bible belt are flooding out more than ever, but what are the most dominant correlation factors?

In the same way tech is a dominant culture for tech people, religion would seem to be a dominating factor, as well as people raised in extreme weather conditions. Ex: If you gew up on the Slopes in Colorado, perhaps you are much more likely to, even if moving someplace else for a few years, want to return home to the warm, the cold, the mountains, or whatever environment you were raised in, especially if you lived in an overwhelmingly dominant type of landscape.

Climate
Religious/Political Preferences

Also, gender was overlooked, as well as ethnicity.

Ive noticed some ethnicities, even those of overall high socioeconomic status will stick together in demographic regions or, when populating a new region, do so in large groups. For example, I believe Jacksonville Florida has a concentrated percent of people of Indian ethnicity. As becoming a doctor or an Engineer is a common profession for this ethnicity in America, the fact that UF is near there, and the climate is similar to Indian climate, would seem like a big player.

Similarly for gender, as much as I don't like to stereotype. I wonder how many women vs men choose to move to a place because their spouse or SO lives in that place. How does that trend correlate with region and ethnicity, income level, religion etc.

Overall, poorly done research, that doesn't explore enough data to reveal any compelling outliers.

Would love to have seen breakdowns, polls or correlations of any type with

Industry type
Region
Landscape
Ethnicity
Gender
Income level
Education level
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AIUI the issue only occurs when you're browsing through tor with a browser profile that also contains logins to chinese websites linked to your identity.

This is why you shouldn't run your regular browser session through TOR for critical work and use the tor browser bundle instead, with a separate profile, with a as-paranoid-as-possible configuration (minimal cross-site requests! use µMatrix, not just noscript) if you really want to information leakage.

Tor itself can only do so much, it doesn't magically prevent your browser from telling the world that you're person X.
It's considered insecure to browse the web with TOR while having Javascript enabled. This is not news.
He's putting it in comparison to the previous example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9718410

Newline matters / doesn't matter, the same with the semicolons.
TL;DR: Tor and VPN are safe. What they did is hack some big Chinese websites (or force them to be vulnerable or something). Then when a Tor or VPN user visits one of these websites they can be unmasked somehow. It's unclear to me what malicious code is used, whether you need to be logged into one of these websites, whether it can then unmask you when you visit other (not one of the hacked) websites, etc.

Another point of interest in the article might be the fact that they blocked VPN protocols to prevent people from using them. And, in case you missed it, the Chinese government tried to knock Github offline by hijacking a Chinese website's traffic (Baidu).

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This is a really terrible article. It doesn't really explain how it works, claims a government cracked things that are uncracked, claims it's the Chinese government while that's only assumed (based on "who else would go to such extensive lengths" mentioned by someone), and misnames things. For example:

> The vulnerability, known as JSONP

Uhm, no. This is JSONP:

> JSONP [is] a communication technique used in JavaScript

(From Wikipedia.)
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South Carolina is kind of outside the range of apple cultivation unless you plant a specialized heat-tolerant variety. We have apple trees in the back yard, which we grow without pesticides or fertilizer, and the results are "okay". Small, but tasty, not a whole lot of production. You're better off growing peaches here. We stock up on apples whenever we drive through the mountains of North Carolina, which are just right for apples.
Hijacking: Can anyone tell me how to make a Scribble website have CSS like in HTDP?
Why America's $2.9 Trillion Medical Industry Still Runs on Paper Payments
Stupid question time.

Is there anything in all this that can make my machine behind the router get the same address all the time? Do I manually assign it locally as with IPv4 and hope no one else in the building assigns the same IP?

Is there anything to assign IP-to-Hostname at least on the local (behind the gateway) level. Or is this handled via some other service I need to run (maybe some server that runs dns and allows machines to push their desired hostname to it).
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I think this policing behavior is a mistake, but yours is the strongest argument for it. It actually makes me question the idea of judges trying to assess remorse.

Also, I would say there is a big difference between judges in court room and officers on the street. In a court room, the judge is going to have a substantial amount of time to assess the defendant, he's going to give the defendant feedback on the sorts of signals he's sending, and he's going to explicitly give the chance to demonstrate remorse to defendants who might think it's inappropriate, or don't have that sort of personality, or whatever. The officer on the street is just making a gut-level call which I don't trust; I think it would be dominated by things like how attractive the person is (both men and women), how generally agreeable/social they are, etc.

Also, remorse is usually used to lessen sentencing, but it's not typically used to decide if the defendant gets punished at all.
If one must click-bait, go all-in: "The Shockingly Disturbing and Weirdly Beautiful Chinese Compromise of VPNs and Tor"
it might be pop sci, but the explanation I heard long time ago is:
creativity is boosted by beta brain waves, (associated with daydreaming)
Physical activities that don't fully engage your brain (walking, exercising, taking a shower, etc..) increment beta waves.
On the other hand, increased focus and alertness, is associated with alpha waves, coffee produces that effect thus reduces your creativity
John Medina's Brain Rules:
Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power.
http://www.brainrules.net/exercise

And he also notes that two of the worst environments for the brain are:
(1) the office
(2) the classroom
Brining and injecting water into birds to plump them up are not the same thing.

And either way I'd rather pay not $5/lbs or whatever for water.
The fully-wired Harvard forest tracking climate change in real time
> Never trust a statistic you didn't forge yourself.

I would go further and say that you shouldn't even trust a statistic forged by yourself. Statistics & probability is hard. If you don't regularly practice your statistics & probability calculation skills, you will probably get it wrong.
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Virtual methods and functions behave very differently from an extensibility point of view. I much prefer using named parameters or replacing the bool with an enum.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem
The grandparents wasn't questioning whether it makes sense to give warnings, he was questioning whether we really want officers on the street making gut-level decision about how sorry they think the driver was.
Ruby on Rails is a good place to start. Ruby is a very human readable language and you can do some pretty cool things quickly using Rails.
Open Source Mapping SaaS
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I use pry-byebug most of the time.
I remember the conversations people had back then. You had basically 3 business models if you were going to run a software company. It was something like:

1. Stay so small/niche that Microsoft won't notice or care about you.

2. Avoid selling software as your primary source of income. This is basically a variant of #1.

3. Try to get bought by Microsoft. Ha, just kidding! Everybody knows that Microsoft doesn't buy stuff that's 'Not Innovated Here'.

3. Gamble. Hope you corner your market and extract as much value as possible from that market before Microsoft figures out what you're doing and enters your market. Or (later) C&D's you over some patents they have.

The weird thing is that outside the Bay Area (in some parts of Canada, at least), I still see startups recruiting for a #1-like business model, more-or-less: "The best $SOCIAL_MEDIA iPhone app in $CITY" or whatever. They're not actually afraid of Microsoft anymore, but it's like the mentality didn't go away.
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Since this seems to be resonating with a lot of folks, I'll also follow with something more constructive:

What I'd like to see is a messaging system that gets the basics right, and that's deeply aware that it's AP out of CAP. Messages are inherently commutative (think CRDTs) and can be received in arbitrary order; people on two sides of a partition should have no trouble reconciling coherent logs regardless of if there was a two minute netsplit or someone was backpacking for two weeks. I'm looking for any existing stuff that suits this, and willing to collaborate on making it if it needs to be made!
really good, I like how you've done this: clear layout, shows the sort of stuff I'm interested in. Good job.
When bicyclists kill as many pedestrians as cars, that might be needed.