skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a different take on that: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-you...

Ars 'creeped' out a couple of people by getting the license location data and doing look ups on people's plates. So yes, they may not be able to track everyone every where, but if someone wanted to know where 'you' were going it would be trivial to figure out. I'm not as worried about police and the .gov having the data. I'm more worried about when 'bad' people get access to that data and use it for nefarious purposes.

See the Federal security clearance hack for an example.
If you want to get a deeper understanding of what git's doing, read gitcore-tutorial(7). It's pretty easy to understand git's internals, and once you know them, it's easier to understand what the user commands are actually doing. Then, if something goes wrong, it's much easier to recover.
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This is why Alphabet is stupid. But in Tesla's case, the two businesses are clearly related and may benefit one another so as to compensate for this effect.
That's already very possible too, they just need to make it unrestricted. For those outside the US services like NFL/MLB/NBA Game Pass are really fantastic. I can watch live, on demand, and condensed versions of any game.
Did you read my reply? I'm aware that France and a few other countries are placing a ban on burqas. I stated this very fact.

So i guess i'm confused what you're getting at here.
I don't think any other organization apart from CCC is able to provide conference attendees with such a large-scale infrastructure (30C3 had a >100GbE uplink, and every year there is a public /16 netblock for LAN clients)...
Competition is often a race to the bottom. Chromebooks are a huge threat to Windows hegemony.

Microsoft lost the internet and mobile platforms to Google. They are going to fight tooth and nail for the PC.

If the average person doesn't give a shit about privacy (and they truely don't), then Microsoft will not be able to charge for products Google supports for free with spying/ads.
I clicked your link, saw the loading animation, waited like ten seconds for it to do anything, then left.
> when MS decides to end support for 7/8

Microsoft doesn't suddenly decide to end support for something: it has a well-established, pre-published software life-cycle where operating systems are supported for 10 years.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/lifecycle

There's always a chance that a date will be extended, but it wouldn't be a good plan to bet on it.

Otherwise, I feel deeply sorry for you. Nobody should have to use inferior systems like Windows XP in this day and age. Presumably some badly-programmed bit of corporate junkware prevented you from upgraded to Windows 7 in 2009 .. ;-)
> Tens of thousands of packages means that one hardly has to write any code.

this is exactly what's wrong with the Node community.
Not to re-hash the argument again but it's not quite an accurate representation since for each car that Tesla sells that $4k number goes down.

They've broken out the per-unit cost for a Model S and they're posted ~22% profit(feel free to fact-check me on this, I might be a tad off) excluding ZEV credits.

So if Tesla wasn't production constrained(and building out the Gigafactory) they'd be turning a profit by the same logic.
I've been bitching about KB3035583 here and on Reddit for the last few months and mostly getting downvoted for it, heh [1]

Glad to see I'm not the only one. Also enjoying the schadenfreude in the wake of all the spyware W10 has shipped with. Given they don't have a problem installing adware on W7 and W8, it's a bit odd the level of surprise and shock and consternation, etc., when really anyone could have seen this coming if they'd just shut up for a minute and thought it through. C'est le vie.

I really hope you're wrong about five years from now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966970 <- list of HN users currently sending private data, keystrokes, etc, to MS servers :-)
But short term trading at traditional brokerages is even worse. You loose money to commissions in addition to whatever you loose through trading.

There's nothing stopping someone from doing long-term investing with ETFs in Robinhood, is there?
> profoundly poorly considered

For the handful of people who care deeply about data collection, yeah. For the rest of the 900+ million, it's really not a concern.

Edit: I know it sucks to hear, but your concerns about privacy are hardly shared among the general populous.
I think you're failing to consider the impact of the death throes of an industry.
Bear in mind, Google's primary advantage in search is the number of people using their search engine, and their ability to track what people do. Moreso than any machine intelligence factor, Google just profits off knowing what term you search and then what you decided to click on.
This is a straw man. I nowhere suggest that open source would not have distribution.

GitHub isn't just 'distribution' it has required a huge amount of investment and focus by individuals who need to make money to feed their families and prosper.

The fact that it is GitHub that we're talking about, and the fictional repos that you imagine would spring up proves the point - in the real world, open source is subsidized by closed source.
Ad hominem.

One could argue the same about Paul Krugman.
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No, your perspective is absolutely the right one: It is critically imperative that we separate warzones from domestic law enforcement in every way possible. I personally believe that combat vets should not be allowed to serve as police officers. Security guards? Sure. Bodyguards? Sure. Law enforcement? No. That's my personal opinion, because it should not be normal to flashbang a building, kick the door in, and rush inside with weapons drawn. But that's how American police departments are beginning to serve warrants for traffic violations. And it doesn't end there, but in particular that distinction is incredibly important. You hit the nail on the head and I could not possibly agree with you more.
Duh! Man, sometimes I think I know anything ....
There's something missing from this screenshot!

https://twitter.com/katiekovalcin/status/630751505117659136

What's missing is her response stating, "I'm not interested in you that way, please don't text me anything romantic. See you at the conference!"

Oh, what's that? Did she decide not to do that?

Women, if you want the right to say, literally this - I am not making it up:

http://imgur.com/oW4sGMY

Then you have to say, "I'm not interested in you, please don't ask me again."

The people who express this sentiment in the current thread are completely correct, and if she didn't reply that way then that women is in the wrong.

Ladies, you LITERALLY cannot have it both ways. You CANNOT say you want a guy to text you, you want a guy to ask you out, if you are not willing to say no to them.

Where's that part of the screenshot?

Oh, that's right: nowhere. She expressed the same level of interest in him as I do in all the women I'd be interested in dating if I were a little less busy in life. It takes exceptional bravery and flaunting of gender roles for any of them to ask me out though - the ball is literally completely in my court. Why? Because "I want a guy to ask me out."
That makes sense, but be aware of the laws in your jurisdiction. For example, SF prohibits (but tends not to enforce) scooting on the sidewalk on main streets (http://sfappeal.com/2010/08/ask-the-appeal-is-it-illegal-to-...).
How did you lose two months of earnings? Just curious if you worked two months before invoicing the client.

(I am not a lawyer but just some thoughts/ideas)
If you didn't work for your client and it was a long time ago I would expect your client might have an out with the recruiter that the time limit had expired or they should have been released from the contract since you weren't even employed by them through the recruiter.

If the client paid the recruiter for your time you need to take up the issue with them.

1. Determine if your client paid the recruiter.

2. Sounds like your client paid your recruiter your rate + their fee so they owe you your rate portion.

I would approach the client's HR or Finance department and present hey I worked for you X hours at X rate, this amount of money is important to me(and my family's) well being. Can you verify that my fees were paid to this recruiter?

Then approach the recruiter and explain that you weren't aware an agreement was in place, sorry about that, however my client indicated that they paid you for my work and I want to provide any information you need to process my payment for that work.

Kill them both with kindness initially, explain you weren't aware of the contract between the employer/recruiter.

See how that goes.

Good luck getting this worked out.

In the future invoice more often . . . in the states the max I would go with a new client is a week or two weeks (with possible retainer/portion up front), maybe a month for on going work with proven clients.
AMPCamp 6 has been announced for Nov 19 and 20: http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/6/
I'm not sure LTS would help us. If 1.8 had been deemed LTS we may have delayed the upgrade work until it was EOL... then what? We'd still be facing months of upgrade work, but on a significantly larger code base.

This is a problem of platform maturity. The Web is moving too quickly for monolithic framework solutions to keep up. ES6, web components, shadow dom etc were not part of the landscape 12 months ago. Ember and Angular are both doing admirable work in all of these spaces, but they're leaving their users in their wake.

I'm just not sure what you are supposed to do if you want to build a multi-year project with modern frameworks in 2015. My current suggestion is that we don't, accepting that the web site is just a skin over your api, that needs to move with the fashion, so expect to replace it every 12 months, minimum... that doesn't go over very well with executives.
>Given the above section, does this situation sound "PC-heavy" to you?

No, such strong language + repeatedly declining to answer I think carries the message perfectly accurately. He should have got it.

P.S. Although, I can see how "fuck you" can be seen as a double-message by the guy (only joking).
You could support Netflix by adding a Bitcoin-based system of transit settlements. This could provide the capital to really scale up, without any central control or administration. I

Of course the cooperative part of the network remains free. A payment system just makes expensive infrastructure possible as part of the system, like fiber under the oceans. A decentralized payment system could allow massive scale by allowing investors to finance and make money off network segments, repeaters, etc. Real competition forces them to compete on pricing and quality. One can imagine a smart routing algorithm that takes cost and quality into account.

I mention this because I'm a skeptic about many proposed applications for Bitcoin, but infrastructure with no central control is a great use case. Bitcoin needs some solid use cases before it can really take off.

Edit: any comments along with the downvotes? I was hoping for a conversation. I know its crazy but I'm speculating about creating an entire new internet.
Am I some superhuman that I am actually capable of getting work done on GNU/Linux? That, in fact, all of the software I need is there? That the kernel, libc and other APIs are actually quite stable (indeed, breaking userspace is the ultimate sin in the kernel, akin to blaspheming the Holy Spirit) and that usability is greatly enhanced by being able to configure my system the way that best suits my workflow and without OS features that think they're holding my hand and helping me but only get in my way of doing actual work?
I watched the most recent Superbowl via streaming. Technically, streaming sports is about as easy as streaming any other video. One big hurdle is all the licensing because there is a lot of money involved. Edit: The other hurdle is horizontally scaling live streaming video to over 100 million devices.

Networks like the NFL Network are doomed as soon as most NFL fans realize they could be streaming literally any game they want to watch from a Netflix-style service, or watch any number of games in a community from a curated Cytube-style list, instead of having just the 1 game at a time.
Redefine your MVP.

If it's too expensive it's not minimal enough. And if it can't be built (because it's too expensive) it's not viable at all.
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But what does it mean to "cut the cord"? If your IP connection is still coming from Comcast/Verizon/Time Warner, you've still got a cord and a corresponding bill.

The real question to me is whether the cable providers can turn $150 "Triple Play" (phone/internet/TV) bills into $150 IP-only bills. If I were them, I'd keep prices on the 'next generation' (100Mbit+) of IP-only plans very close to those that include traditional TV service, and offer bundles of discounted (unmetered?) third party services. "Cutting the cord" won't save you very much money as long as there's minimal competition in the physical infrastructure.
Given the amount of weed consumed, I think the copyright infringements would be the smallest of their issues. :-)
Yes, but more adhoc like "starting now I will dedicate 60 minutes to X". Any solution that requires me to schedule ahead or needs me to add my todos in yet another system is too much work. Especially when todos are written with pen&paper.

Your solution (https://www.cloqworq.com/) which accesses Google Calender and moves todos into slots looks cool.

I somewhat look forward to a hardware solution that includes blocking access to internet or other distractions like https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/saent-be-less-distracted. I've tried kitchen clocks (countdown) but they just added stress and pressure and didn't do anything to keep me focused.
Interest from margin accounts is another one. They don't have margin accounts yet, but once they do, that could become a fairly significant revenue stream.
Yeah, for whatever reason that headline stuck even on sites that are typically less click-baity and/or pro-Tesla. My favorite way I saw the headline explained was something like:

I had major medical expenses this year and had to dip into my savings such that I ended up spending about 12k more than I brought in this year. I also ate 12 pizzas in the year. Their headline is like me saying "I lost $1k per pizza this year". It's accurate in a sense, but they're not related.
You've persuaded me to take another look at her philosophy. If you're still here, any books you'd recommend? Is Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology worth the read? I read Virtue of Selfishness which was OK -- I preferred the Romantic Manifesto as I felt her ideas in there were better worked out.
> Have you looked at UbuntuStudio or other similar distributions?

I haven't but I worry that some VSTi plugins might not work.

For example: https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bugs/2012-January/3072...
In fairness, most people only become afraid of something when they're facing it.

As for the conspiracy theory, maybe it was the product of paranoid thinking. A more obvious conspiracy theory to me is that the US saw an opportunity to smear Assange and lent on Sweden to trump up the charges.
What does the future hold for Bitcoin?
I think it would be hard for you to argue that workers have more rights/power in China or Brazil.

China is socialist only in name. They are an economic powerhouse because the ruling class has fully embraced capitalism in order to exploit its large labor force.

Brazil has a long history of corruption and poor regulation/enforcement. Slavery is still a very large issue in the agricultural industry there, which makes up a large portion of the economy.

I'd love to see any data that you have that supports your thesis about the prevalence of this phenomenon in Europe despite a fairer split of economic rent due to fair labor laws.
I'm just trying to objectively interpret a really small amount of data here, not make a justification for or against any particular policy. You're right that it's important to have informed consent about this kind of thing. That applies to Google, Facebook, or Amazon too. It does seem like it's pretty obvious here when there are so many statements about how Cortana gets to know you, your speech, your schedules, your flights, your interests, etc., and there's a delete button for everything too.

Most people probably like all that, but I would like to see more robust privacy settings to easily disable tracking whenever it's desired.
Ecuador has denied this:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/10/us-sweden-assange-...

> The Ecuadorian embassy also said in its statement that no representative from Sweden has turned up on their steps to interview Assange.

> Karin Rosander, spokeswoman for Swedish Prosecution Authority, said a prosecutor had been to London in June, ready to question the Australian, but lacking necessary permissions, she had to return home without visiting the embassy.

So the prosecutor flew to London but wasn't willing to just take a taxi over to the embassy and knock on the door?
So your argument is, for YOU :- game programming is less productive than building a website. That's fine then. I wouldn't disagree with someones personal experience. I thought you were making a general argument that applies to everyone.
Also don't forget that you actually need to cycle significantly faster than just 128 * 8000 times per second, since presumably you can't integrate light into the capacitor while you're also zeroing it. Whatever goes into the capacitor while it's draining is lost, because it drains to zero.

Seems like a better approach would be to add a "gain pixel" to traditional sensors.

So imagine you've got your Bayer grid (or a layout that functions similarly), one of the pixels in the grid gets read out first. That one sets the gain for the ADC for the surrounding pixels. The downside is your iteration couldn't be linear and the gain control would be a lot more complex, but you could do it with technology that actually exists, and you wouldn't lose half of your vertical resolution by doing it a whole line at a time like Magic Lantern's dual-ISO mode.

You'd have to do fancy processing around high-contrast edges, but what else is new.
As for doctors, yes, stagnated to some extent (albeit at a nice level :-)).

But the reasons are entirely different - the cause is the growing, cancerous (and greedy) layer of bureaucracy on top of actual producers (doctors). But that's yet another topic.
Prediction and control is what science rests on whether we're talking about behavior or physics. You can't prove that an independent variable (IV) caused a change in a dependent variable (e.g., behavior) unless you can predict and control it by systematically manipulating the IV while observing changes in the DV.

However, this is way beyond the scope of the original blog post or my original comment. In my first comment, I offered an alternative description of a phenomenon that the author described. You suggested that I was advocating for "strict behaviorism." That wasn't the case, so I clarified. At this point, I'm not sure what the purpose of this discussion is.
It's a financial blunder to sell new shares at a 'criminally' low price, so maybe that isn't true.
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You're entirely correct, though another factor to consider is the share of economic value that is captured by industries that have enormous capital requirements (e.g. jet engines, semiconductors, oil refining).

Even if all of the monopoly-protecting regulations are eliminated, there will still be many industries where economies of scale favor large-scale capitalism.

My guess is that while capital is increasingly more accessible, the proportion of the economy where big investment make winners is also increasing. The question of which is growing faster is not one that I can answer, but there are some promising areas where the tide seems be turning toward favoring small players, like in electricity generation or the alcohol industry.
why would cats find it more amusing than watching the fish tank screensaver?
The United States already has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the entire world. We also spend more on education per capita than almost any other country. The problem isn't necessarily lack of money. The problem is that our conceptual model of the economy isn't correct anymore. The idea that low skill work will yield a middle class lifestyle is fundamentally not valid anymore; globalization put an end to that model. We have yet to reconcile this fact at a national level or figure out how to deal with it.
From that link: "the Swedish authorities have never explained why they refuse to give Assange a guarantee that they will not extradite him on to the US under a secret arrangement agreed between Stockholm and Washington."

Weeeell, maybe because Sweden is a democracy and has no "authorities" that can guarantee the outcome of hypothetical future legal proceedings.

Also, note that Assange was obviously in Sweden when the rape allegedly happened, and only became conveniently afraid of extraditiom to US after those allegations surfaced.
True. But if you're interested in them for micro-investing, that seems incompatible with borrowing to do it. Although I'm sure someone will want to borrow to invest...
The point is that if you can produce more value for an employer than you're currently being paid, then in a competitive market, one greedy capitalist will tend to outbid another greedy capitalist to capture that extra value. So there's also a race to the bottom in the direction of higher wages.
I use Bitcoin to buy from NewEgg. It's the only way I can buy from them as a Canadian buy from the US site (they decline my PayPal and Credit Card for some unknown reason).

I use it for buy Joylent for Europe, because I don't get screwed by exchange rate the Visa/PayPal give me.

These are real everyday uses of Bitcoin that normal people could engage in that to my knowledge are better provided by the Bitcoin network than by traditional system.
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If you like this sort of machine for art's sake, you'll love the kinetic sculptures of Arthur Ganson: http://www.arthurganson.com/pages/Sculptures.html

Check out "Machine with Oil": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__GhJl_UQg0
When I first learned of it I thought it made a lot of sense, so I would genuinely be really very interested to read you expand on its harms.
The trouble is that not every place you type a password will necessarily have something identifying it to the OS as a password field. For example, what if you're entering a sudo password into an ssh client, or saving a password into a text file (saved on an encrypted drive, surely) using a text editor?
The thing about rape is that the intent and the act are very much intertwined with the victim's feelings of it. If the victim does not appreciate whatever is going on, the onus is on the perpetrator to realize that and stop. Failure to do so is "the act" and the intent is.. well, the state of mind where you do not choose to find out/acquiesce to the other person's desires.

However, if the "victim" says there was no rape, and has never said so, then the whole premise, including both the intent and the act, is unseated.

Disclaimer: I am no lawyer, and do not know much about this specific case. These are just my intuitions about rape laws. I also believe that if the laws, in fact, are much different from these ideas in spirit, they are SORELY off-base.