skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually does run locally with access to API's that you authorize. Just saying...
Interesting little profile of Delany. I didn't realize he was so prolific and still writing. And I'm not quite sure where to start his work.... probably not Dhalgren, right?
I had to have proof of insurance to get plates. Not sure how this works around that...
Cannabis Quality Assurance: Shaky at Best
Chaldal (YC S15) Wants to Become the Amazon Fresh of Bangladesh’s Capital
Well, if the limit is 100 km/h and people still drive 120 km/h, then it's only their fault that they get fined. Limits are limits, you are supposed to respect them.

The situation would be different if, for instance, those limits would be obscured or appeared suddenly, and you'd have police forces enforcing them there on purpose. I've heard of cases like that.

Did anyone actually ask the people who put the limits about their reasoning though? Maybe this is the value that came out of simulations. Maybe it's a part of an environmental strategy (going 120 km/h uses much more fuel than 100 km/h and thus leads to greater emissions). But maybe the simulations were wrong. I'm sure that there are proper channels one could use to dispute the limits. But just disregarding them because they 'look wrong' is pure hubris.
If those studies are true, then the correct solution would be to:

1) ask people not include their names on their resume. Or don't use resumes at all. Create a web form application that does not require a name and only asks about the crucial skills you actually need.

2) Create a highly objective hiring process, such as this: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

I don't really buy that subconscious bias is the problem in tech. I've been part of a lot of hiring, we were actually consciously biased toward hiring women since we wanted better numbers. I had an objective interview process, always giving the same questions, and the hiring was still very disproportionately male whasian (the applicant pool was also very disproportionately male whasian, despite doing active reach out to woman-in-tech events).
Am I reading this right that the problem is that during an OS upgrade the default browser is reset back to the default OS settings? While that is certainly an inconvenience, I find it hard to really expect an OS upgrade to carry over every user setting. Isn't all the user has to do after the upgrade is open Firefox (which is still installed) and click yes to "make this default" question?
It's so strange that Medium articles don't have dates on them. Is there a way to tell when an article was published? Am I missing something?

The reason that I ask, is that I could've swore this article was posted last month, but it was an actual different FastCompany article (http://www.fastcompany.com/3046756/obama-and-his-geeks).
There isn't a product you can buy to fix this.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/conference-program/...
You're comparing Microsoft's request to send ALL typing and "inking" (I assume that means touch and stylus events) to Google logging search terms?

No matter how you look at it, essentially reserving the right to install a key logger on your computer is unprecedented.
> PHP. This is a known weakness in PHP's bcrypt implementation. From Wikipedia, "Many implementations of bcrypt truncate the password to the first 72 bytes." I would hope that they're using a competent implementation that either supports longer passwords or throws an error if it's asked to hash a longer password.

Actually, it's a known weakness in BCRYPT. PHP did not implement bcrypt, it was ported in via crypt(3). Meaning that ALL versions of bcrypt have this issue.

Some implementations error on > 72 bytes, but NONE of them accept longer passwords.

> I don't think we know enough to conclude that they were definitely doing it wrong, but it would be nice to know more details about the algorithm, though.

Given what has been shared so far, there's enough signs pointing that the chances are pretty high they did something wrong. 40 byte salt? Bcrypt only supports a 128 bit salt. So either they did something silly custom (at which point it's no longer bcrypt), they aren't actually using bcrypt, or they did something silly like concatenate the salt + pepper + password and pass it to the password field.
Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco
After publishing secret spy docs, German news site investigated for treason
The final comments also support the theme: Some of the more conservative authors presently complaining are doing so, Dulaney thinks, because they fear the growing presence of a more diverse community and a wider acceptance of the same. Trends which will continue to grow into the future.

I think this might be attributing too much malice to the author in question though; Larry C seems more like a somewhat thoughtless writer annoyed that his low-brow entertainment books are not considered to have the same merit as Dulaney's stuff, backed up by an echo chamber online community.
somewhat needed idea but crazy steep pricing IMO
Hackers Commandeer a Moving Jeep
Ah, I had taken it in portrait orientation. Maybe taking the longest edge would make sense?
MyTape – Social Video Camera Available on Producthunt
It could be interpreted as a noun-noun compound; "machismo adventuring" would be akin to "cave spelunking" or "ego exploring".

Probably a typo.
Do you have a place in SV? Not with an attitude like that.

You are an excellent coder -- full stop. You don't have to hold yourself to some kind of "rockstar" ideal to get a job. Or better said, you simply have to convince the hiring managers of SV that you are what they are looking for.

On the flip side, there are plenty of non-"rockstar" companies that could use your talents, I'm sure of it. Perhaps you need to adjust where you're looking for work?

For my money this means working on your soft skills, especially if you're on the job hunt. Network, talking to people (in person(!)), make yourself visible to the hiring managers. Soft skills should start paying dividends immediately, as opposed to cramming code into your Github profile to look like a "rockstar" does.
You were always free to not use new MS operating systems. Nobody forced you to make any MS accounts or use Window 8,10 or whatever, so if you installed Windows 8 and didn't like it, that doesn't make MS evil, just don't use it. Anyone who inclined to use CentOS as their daily driver probably was never going to like MS OS's anyway. You probably only ever installed it just to find out what you hate about it.
I don't mean to be an asshole, but your criticism is basically along the lines of "You're doing this all wrong, do it how I say this should be done"

They don't have physical servers, he's already answered that in your last comment. Each user is going to get their own VPS through AWS or another provider, so most likely these "hosts" are technically physically separated.

This service is basically a drag and drop app foundation, its a glorified SaaS. It's adding a layer of ease between having to purchase your own VPS and deploy these apps. Now someone can just purchase through this service, get their VPS purchased for them and deployed with a nice interface that magically sets up software.

What you're mentioning is an entirely different business plan on its own. You're talking about buying physical hardware, servers, switches, etc. Which would require setting up VLans...etc for true separation.

Cloudron is making an argument about privacy through the features they offer. I'm sure they would have loved to buy hundreds of servers and allow for everyone to have their own little Fort Knox in a Box but this is unobtainable from their viewpoint. They've come up with compromises to create a unified and monetarily obtainable product.

A good product is a compromise between what's needed, and what's available. You can't make something out of nothing (most of the time). If the resources aren't available, or if implementability isn't possible then you start to compromise. This is what happened here. Two guys who had a similar idea of privacy wanted to get together to provide a nice server/cloud service, and this cool little website is the result of that. Maybe in the future they can get their Fort Knox going, but for right now I don't see that happening because of the costs associated with it.
They must want people to always feel like every Medium article is fresh.

Meanwhile in the page source:

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2015-07-30T17:21:08.966Z">
Let's assume tall people and short people are equally good at cracking eggs.

Umm, in the actual example we are talking about, the evidence is on the side of that assumption being false: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977751 https://jaymans.wordpress.com/jaymans-race-inheritance-and-i...
> ...but because of seeing these videos it seems we're all more anxious, rational or not.

It is perfectly rational to be anxious around anybody who can legally kidnap you. I'm not worried about being shot, I'm worried about the old saying "You can beat the wrap, but you can't beat the ride." I've heard police officers complain about this very natural reaction, and the effects it has on their personal relationships (they generally only have other cops for friends).

The solution is incredibly simple, reduce the amount of power left to the discretionary use of the police officer. A positive first step would be obliteration of the concepts of resisting arrest / obstruction of <insert contempt of cop excuse>. The next step would be establishing a restricted set of circumstances where an officer is authorized to arrest vs ticket. This would prevent the all too common case of an interaction, initially beginning with a burnt out tail light, escalating to the point where somebody is dead.

Once police officers are restricted to hallway monitor status in 99% of the interactions, and Hollywood action-hero status for situations that actually call for it, they'll find the public much more trusting.
HackMIT 2015 Puzzle Guide
> Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged.

Well, I thought Google already tracked you whichever browser you use, via its advertising networks.

However, it does offer good control and opt-out cookies for the (whatever) 0.0001 percent of people who find out about this and actually give a damn.
No, users now have to go to a settings page to change their default applications. Ostensibly this is for user protection (so apps can't trick users into setting defaults they don't want)
Did you read the letter ? It answers your question. It's a short letter.
Flags affect the rankings and enough flags will kill a story. Moderators may/will look at stories with more than a few flags.
Did I Remember to (Test Guide)
Yup, I think professional athletes are overpaid.

Unfortunately I am but one individual in the greater market of people who determine athlete salary by attending games, sitting in front of the TV, and buying endorsed products.

I do love to watch a good old Federer v Djokovic match every once in a while though ;)
The wealth gap between young and old people
Would be interesting to see the YT tests redone with add ons that force h264 for Firefox and Chrome.
I meant I use VirtualBox only for my development environment and everything else is on the host OS.

Honestly nothing has been better than Outlook if the mail is hosted on an Exchange server. These days I use Outlook 2013 with an Outlook365 backend (their hosted service, it's what my employer uses, outside of my control) and it's not great but I don't like web-based clients and I don't know of a better desktop client.
I'd suggest starting with _[Trouble on] Triton_.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_%28novel%29
Because there are fewer exposed heads on roadways.
Windows has a history of carrying over user settings like that since the DOS times. You can literally upgrade from DOS through every version of Windows and end up with the same desktop background/widget colors/etc.

I'm obviously biased because I work on a browser (specifically a browser that isn't made by Microsoft), but to me this is clearly about trying to capture the users who stopped using IE over the years.
for several = 2, yes.
Interesting. I've still never read Delany despite the fact that he's the only commercially successful, black sci fi author I know.
Bug: Can't enter input into the enter legal name modal on iOS Safari. Can't close the modal either.
Dude, you are a few years too late to the party. It's already part of most tech things you may use on a daily basis, without knowing it.
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"Isn't all the user has to do after the upgrade is open Firefox (which is still installed) and click yes to "make this default" question?"

No. This API for settings defaults deliberately does not work anymore.
Well, I feel like I've been liberated from coerced interpersonal interaction. Others paint this as being disconnected from my community.

Maybe they define community differently. I don't consider the random set of people within a half-mile of my apartment to be my community in any kind of deep and meaningful way.
Internet of Things – Map of the IoT Ecosystem
> I find it hard to really expect an OS upgrade to carry over every user setting

True. However that default browser/file extension handlers preferences should be a priority to carry forward.

It may be easy to set your new default browser, but it's one more thing I have to do to personalize my computer, instead of using my computer to do the tasks at hand.

It's a fundamental difference between MSFT and AAPL's philosphy (and why I made the switch a while back). Everytime I upgrade OS X, my settings carry forward, so there is less time spent doing things like setting up my computer, and more time spent using my computer to solve problems that I care about.
I started with Babel-17 and then read Nova and Stars In My Pocket... before getting into the short stories a bit (Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones was the first, I think).

He's a master, and his works are in a real sense masterworks. Whatever you start with, you'll probably find something to enjoy.
"Down, not Across".

http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/~ingvar/asr/overview.html

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.sysadmin.recover...
And yet to do your tax online in Germany you'll have to use Elster which is Windows only. Telling them I'll sign my pdfs with SHA-256 didn't help... So back to cellulose data carriers
His novel Nova is probably the best place to start. The short story "Aye, And Gomorrah" is a pretty good spot too.
> I'm not a fan of Crypton

Just curious - is this to do with using javascript crypto[0]? or something that goes beyond that?

[0] https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
I wager what that means is if you hand-write and then type the same text, Windows will/can send the typed & hand-written version to a server, where it can be used to improve the handwriting recognition, either for that specific user or for everybody everywhere.

The problem is there's no like "more info" icon you can click to get an explanation of what it means.
If it is not plainly apparent to you that my OP is on topic, I am sorry but there is not much I can say that will improve your reading comprension.

I have Dyslexia myself si I know very well how hard it can be. In my case I am unable to read written music, so I can only play mu sic that I compose myself.
Also makes decent voice calls, which seems to be more than most smartphones can manage ;-)

PS Are you sure it doesn't have Bluetooth?
When clicking the link I thought there was too little information for me to sign up, didn't understand what the site is about. The went in to see your comment, but found it too long to read. I would suggest describing what it's abound in a few words on the website. Good luck!
Yes but it's an OS, not web services like Google of Facebook.

It is a whole new level of intrusion IMO.
I thought instead of cutting off out of range results we could num*85/4294967296 and round it. But now realized buckets for rounding won't be of equal size and it's wrong.
I think you're being overly dismissive when it comes to easy dev environments. I was recently fixing the reddit vagrant environment and it was absolutely excruciating:

- Creating a scratch VM (not even provisioning) is a speed bump when you want to re-running scripts on a pristine environment to validate them. Starting a Docker image takes ~1s.

- Provisioning is slow! Reddit suggests installing a plugin (vagrant-cachier) to keep you sane. I ended up downloading a plugin to take VirtualBox snapshots of my VM and even that was depressingly slow. Docker commit takes maybe 20s on a big layer.

- VirtualBox shared folders are pretty bad, so apparently I should install vagrant-bindfs (and NFS packages). -v is effectively zero effort.

- I had to keep on shutting down and starting up the VM to tweak memory settings - too big and my laptop died, too small and nothing would start. You get far more flexible controls in Docker.

I couldn't help but think all the way through that putting everything in a Docker container would just be a far nicer experience, even if it does violate the single process rule - for this use case, Docker solves some papercuts very effectively.
It's a startup, they built the stack from scratch which is probably a fair bit more complicated under the hood than it looks, it's a niche which is (probably) currently unserved and it's in a decidedly unglamorous industry.

Not to mention also a service which London-based developers are actually pretty likely to consider using on occasion.

It has a lot more reason to be on here than many other popular links.
Great product can't wait to use it
It looks like Microsoft has installed the "back door" that FBI Director Comey wanted.[1][2] That may be the real motivation behind these "features". The "backing up" of the local drive encryption key to Microsoft servers is one of the things the FBI specifically asks for. Any press reading this, ask Microsoft what communications they've had with the FBI regarding backdoors.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/08/fbi-chief-...
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/16/fbi-director-...
Freddie Wong on the business of online video
FCC has already gotten 2,000 “net neutrality” complaints
Stars in my pocket... is an Epic. Definitely worth it, but like Dune, it took me years of trying to get past page 100. Once past, they were both amazing works, but, oh do they start of sooo slowly.
Epidemic broadcast that you mention, usually happens when you have a fully connected topology and distribution model works with full replication. But the main advantage with riak_core is that you are able to set the replication factor and quorums, which enables you to setup different distribution models --like sharding or peer-to-peer replication + sharding (common case)-- and balance consistency/availability levels --please review CAP theorem (http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/brewers-cap-theor...).

In case of ErlBus, you can also set these parameters (replication factor and quorums), even the quorum of each operation (sub, pub, unsub, subscribers, etc.) can be set independently. So riak_core gives you the flexibility to choose the best distribution model depending on what you really need, and ErlBus inherits those features when you run it on top of riak_core.

So, you have to consider some variables to choose what distribution model to use:
1. Number of nodes
2. Network traffic (Messages/second)
3. Number of subscriptions (because both pg2 and gproc uses ETS tables)

Most of the cases is enough default ErlBus with PG2, but if you need a more flaxible and scalable distribution model, well, you probably should go for ErlBus with riak_core.

I really hope have answered your question, otherwise, you just let me know.

Thanks!
The story linked below about the
French exascale plans explicitly states that it is the military applications division of the French nuclear energy agency (CEA) that is spearheading that effort. (I believe they work on both reactors and warheads.)
We use IronClad at Zinc and they are amazing. Whenever we have a new contractor, we shoot them an email (actually now we click a button) and they take care of the rest. Saves me a lot of time while ensuring we get all the boxes checked.
> foreign hackers

Don't drink the Kool-Aid.
Ask HN: What are some good incentive providers for web apps?
I am trying to find an incentive provider that I can integrate with my web application. I want it to work such that every time an action(that I define) is taken, they would get rewarded a certain number of points. I want to give people the ability to convert points to tangible rewards. So far the only two I have found are Tango Card(https://www.tangocard.com/) and I Feel Goods(http://www.ifeelgoods.com/). I was wondering if there are more popular ones used?
Yes. It's as dumb as a 3310.
How so? They don't matter on mobile but they still have effectively a monopoly on the desktop with more than 90% marketshare.
A desire for a funded entity to continue development work.
This is baloney, Apple has consistently delivered great battery life on laptops, phones, tablets and beats the Note 4 in several categories:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8613/the-samsung-galaxy-note-4...
VidCon: Why it’s the new SXSW for teens
The "Emacs is bloated" meme stopped being relevant at least fifteen years ago. ;)

But seriously; some serious questions, seeing as how I've never really used Emacs:

How does Emacs compare to versions of Eclipse CDT or Visual Studio released in the past four years for C++ development? How well does Emacs's autocomplete [0] work for templated types of varying complexity? How about its ability to navigate to method definitions and implementations of non-obvious types? Does its autocomplete database update quickly and automatically, or must one trigger the update oneself?

[0] I figure that C++ development support isn't in mainline Emacs and is provided by extensions. For brevity's sake, I'll continue to improperly attribute this functionality.
I stand corrected.

Than you for pointing out my error; sometimes, what one reads on Facebook may not really be true.

However that does not imply that I should stop Boycotting Nestle products. There are many other good reasons that I will explain but not just now as I am posting from my iPad.

I will post my explanation at http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays but my consultancy is on fire so It will be a little while.