skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Come on now. If it's inadmissible then it's inadmissible. That's not how the law works.

It really does depend alot on who is making the recordings and for what purpose. Incriminating evidence obtained illegally is always bared because the state is in the business of snooping into people's business and needs strict boundaries set. Exculpatory evidence collected by the neighborhood busybody can be allowed even if the recordings were made illegally.

Of course, the Busybody's lawyer may try and get it struck as admitting it would make any civil and/or criminal trial harder to defend against, but that wouldn't necessarily stop them from doing so. Makes it more complex if the Busybody is also the defendant, but then you're trading admission of guilt for a lesser offense (illegal recording) to get you off from a higher offense, like anti-trust type stuff.

And that's also assuming that the people you are recording decide they want to press charges.
I work with a few of ex-Midori folks, all of whom are fantastic engineers, most of whom would not have been senior enough to have been shepherded off for being super senior.
Do you realize it's tens of millions of dollars to spin an 18nm ASIC? They're not doing additional revisions, the (at their websites admission) loss-producing miner is as good as it gets.
Although, cheap computers are certainly not hard to come by. A Thinkpad T60 is about $60 used, and its performance is similar to this device.
It's not just G+, it's all across Google assets. The white-space drives me nuts. I'm convinced that along with the basic color palate Google thinks it's customers are 4 year olds or something.
I don't know that ChromeOS uses X server (I know almost nothing about it, in fact). But by the time you've paid for the additional hardware, it may be the case that it's cheaper to buy a tablet or a professional-grade IDS display.
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See also: the Intel Compute Stick (RRP 150USD) which runs x86 windows, useful for basically the same scenarios but also Steam in-home streaming.
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Maybe so, but I imagine one's grandmother would respond with more glee to receive this sleek little dongle than a clunky used Thinkpad T60. I'm not arguing that anyone in particular should go out and buy this product, only that some people are likely to do so of their own accord.
"Do you realize it's tens of millions of dollars to spin an 18nm ASIC? They're not doing additional revisions, the (at their websites admission) loss-producing miner is as good as it gets."
@steckerbrett There could be updates to the design in the future. 21.co is such a mystery for the most part, who knows what their plans are?
Pushbullet and the danger of going 'Pro'
> The tax is tiny (0.1% on most transactions, 0.01% on derivatives)

What's tiny about 0.1%? The amount of money that would suddenly be leaking out of a big mutual fund when it rebalances or reconciles at the end of the day could end up being huge.

The amount of buying and selling something like a Vanguard index fund has to do to track its index with precision is probably pretty impressive, but it's not the kind of weird HFT which annoys people. Introducing inefficiencies into that process is something I cannot believe EU regulators really intended... did they?

Everyday investors lose, the taxman wins, and to what end? It just seems kind of stupid.
"choose" is a macro: https://github.com/sustrik/libmill/blob/8054d5024bf5824b8060...
That is because the USA is building things and ISIS is destroying things.

It cost more to build things than to destroy them.

ISIS has an ideology that it uses to recruit people who are willing to work for a low amount of money and do suicide bombings. Most of their weapons they stole from Iraq, and they stole oil and sold it to raise more money.

Yet the USA spends more on its military and drones and still cannot stop ISIS. We are told ISIS is contained, but right after that the Paris Attacks happened. ISIS can just recruit people and give them resources and money to carry out attacks.

We are not fighting a nation or religion, we are fighting an ideology. One that can recruit people over social media and operate on a low budget with low pay because everyone they recruit thinks they will have 72 virgins in paradise after they die.

The USA is a nation of laws and we have a separation of church and state. We have minimum wage laws and pay people more based on their skill set and value. We pay more for our military and for building bridges because we are trying to build an economy and improve our nation's infrastructure. ISIS does none of those things so they can operate on a lower income, and since their recruits can become a suicide bomb they don't have to pay them after that. They recruit so many people that life is cheap to them and they sacrifice them as pawns.

ISIS or any other terrorist group always finds a way to get an income, blackmail, stealing oil, fake Islamic charities, raiding banks for cash, forcing people to pay a tax or be killed, killing people and taking their wealth, and all sorts of things. They operate like a criminal operation and are even known to deal in drugs as well sometimes.

Defeating ISIS will be very hard indeed. You have to disprove their ideology so they stop getting recruits. You have to cut off their sources of income. You have to kill of their leaders until there is nobody qualified to be a general or leader. Then in the process make sure no innocent women and children get killed or else it will be used as propaganda to recruit more people.

You have to understand what we might be seeing World War 3 in the Middle East right now if things don't get any better.
Recently a book for kids was published, in Russian, which describes TRIZ in an easy manner.

http://fictionbook.ru/static/trials/09/81/13/09811350.html

Main character, a boy called Denis frequently sees problems around him, which allow him to apply his TRIZ skills. The book has explanation and problems, so the reader can try to learn the method.
It's interesting that after Amazon stopped selling the Chromecast Google is still letting them sell the Chromebit.
Hey, looks like someone answered you today:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/google-and-asus-launch-the-...
Someday you may encounter a person who has trouble zeroing in on a 4px resize handle.
I hope this one works better than kitematic! I'm really excited by the implications of docker, but the practicality of using it on windows has proved to be troublesome.

It is very difficult to get docker containers running locally (at least using the gui tools)

I know that MS believes in it wholesale so am really looking forward to the day when the tools catch up to their promises.

So far I've been bashing my head against the wall whenever I've gotten past "tutorial phase 1"

Getting a webhost, database, memcached, rabbitmq, load balancer etc... All talking to each other on a local 'dev' system... theoretically a perfect mirror of the thing that will be the super scalable production system.

Difficult.

I'm undoubtedly doing stuff wrong, but if there are any docker wizards out there, please point me to your blogs! I'm dying to finally wrap my head around the promises of scalable containerization.

EDIT: I just watched their youtube video. This interface is honestly amazing. To be able to arrange virtual machines in 3d space. What a phenomenal tool. This will really help me learn how to use docker effectively.
I ran into this article as well, but don't understand. What does this mean exactly?
Ask HN: As a teacher, how do I help my students make sense of terrorism?
With all the negativity in today's world, as a teacher how can I help my student be optimistic. Attacks in Paris has affected all of us, especially young students. What can I do to help? How do you explain what and why of to little kids?
It seems like it could be a cheap videoconferencing unit. Take a spare monitor, slap this in the back, add a webcam, and use video Hangouts. Everyone could have one at their desk for not much money. We have a custom solution we use in the office that I'm sure is way more expensive.
nice. I remember reading about this (what feels like) ages ago at this point. Patiently waiting to see if Terry Davis shows up. reference:[0]

[0]: https://usesthis.com/interviews/terry.davis/
Alternatively, humans eat everything. From seeds to whales. Some things turn out to be bad for everyone, like hemlock. Some things are generally good, but very dangerous for a few, like peanuts.

As i see it, there are pretty much 2 cases for GMOs right now, and a third that worries me.

1, editing down a sequence to remove unwanted genes. Now, corn without gene X may be toxic. But, that seems unlikely. Billions of people have eaten corn one way or another, and there's bound to be a mutant corn without gene X that people have eaten, just due to random mutation. For this case, GMO's seem very safe.

2, combining genes from 2 things. Now, perhaps feature A weakens us in some way that feature B then exploits and becomes dangerous. Even then, as you say, our biology is fabulously complicated, and has worked solutions for a whole ton of problems. A potato with a cow gene doesn't see obviously more risky than eating potatoes and cows. For this case, GMOs seem a bit more risky, but not substantially more risky than the editing case.

3, Genes created from the imagination. Our biology, specifically digestive system, has had to deal with the prior cases as long as there have been things eating each other. Creating entirely new sequences that our biology has never seen, well, that's scary. we don't have 4 billion years of evolution to rely on.

So, to sum up, case 1 and 2 seem reasonably safe. At least the kind of thing we can try out, if there are bad effects, we can outlaw those specific bad sequences. case 3 is really scary, and those types of GMOs ought to go through something like clinical drug trials for widespread adoption.

edit

by safe, i mean safer than driving. likely far far safer than driving.

because biology is fabulously complicated, heuristics are the best we can do right now. The above, or more sophisticated variations seem reasonable. we don't know for sure, furthermore we can't know for sure. Perhaps a limited release/clinical trial style is better for case 2. But, there's a ton of those kinds of foods already, they've appeared safe so far. Today, that seems like a lot of effort for not much value.
The criticism centered on using Gibbon as his primary source. Gibbon's fine to read as literature, or as a source on English thought in the 1700s, but not anything a serious historian would cite on Roman history. That's not a critique of PCisms, it's a akin to criticizing a historian for uncritically citing the New Testament as reliable account of the history of Judaea in the 1st C. It's a massively shameful failure on the part of Ferguson as a historian.

He then went on to point out that Ferguson black-and-white "us" and "them" was a childish crayon drawing of reality, which is a fair point, and it's not PC to point out someone massively simplifying.

He followed this up with pointing out that another source Ferguson cited, but butchered, offered observations that cut the legs out from under Ferguson.

He didn't need to point out the specific details of 5th c. Rome to point out the problems in Ferguson's article, Ferguson wasn't even writing at a point where one could say he was wrong on the topic.
Well, I would say the first step is to not think of them as kids, but as you. What would have put it into context for you? That's what to say.
I don't think PC replaces one form of prejudice with another. It rather wants to frame the debate in terms of 'you can not say that' instead of 'what you are saying is wrong'.

Ie in this example the FB professor is unhappy that Fergusson considers the native European populations vs the muslim immigrants and concludes that "the majority hold views not easily reconciled with the principles of our liberal democracies, including our novel notions about sexual equality and tolerance not merely of religious diversity but of nearly all sexual proclivities".

He doesn't say - 'Wait, buddy, you're wrong. Muslim immigrants do hold views compatible with X,Y,Z". Instead he says "How dare you draw comparison between the two groups, that's not cool!"
It's abusive because by law we cannot modify our TIG welders to unlock these features/bypass restrictions.
The US can stop ISIS. The US does not want to, because we'd rather not kill a ton of people. If the desire were there (and I surely hope it never is) then killing them all and everyone nearby would take care of it.

Thankfully, an unwillingness to do what it takes to eliminate this threat is not a big problem, because it's not a big threat. The deaths in Paris were sad, but such things pose no threat to our societies as a whole. It would be nice not to have these things happen, but there's no possibility of succumbing to conquest.
Do you know if one has to buy Windows separately for the Intel Compute Stick?
Is accusing someone of shitting on another person, shitting on that person?
Why a 21 Bitcoin Computer? It doesn't take a whole lot of horsepower to run a wallet.

Second - I've read through the article a couple of times, and I'm just not seeing why said computer would need to have 'built-in mining' to implement this.

Kind of tempting to throw together an implementation that shows this, or at least leads me to discover why it would be needed :/
What I'm after is something that can run Kodi (xbmc) which links to a NAS for its media. Running Netflix is a nice to have. What devices are out there that I can use for this purpose?

At the moment I have a fairly heavy htpc running Windows, but I have more tvs that I would like to use for similar purposes.

Edit: Bonus if it can do 4k video, but 1080p minimum is a must.
The Head-Body-Tail Intersection for Spatial Relations B/t Directed Line Segments [pdf]
IIRC it has two SKUs, one with windows bundled and more RAM; one with Ubuntu bundled and less RAM.
As usual, perhaps I have not made myself clear. And before I go further, I should clarify that I've only taken one law school class, and I am not a lawyer.

The issue I'm referring to is that no one is in a position to challenge this component of the FAA without demonstrating that they personally have sustained harm, meaning their rights as an individual have been violated. In other words, the issue is that there must be a "case or controversy" to test a legal hypothesis.

If there were a means of challenging the constitutional validity of a law, or an interpretation of the law, without the burden of proving that one has personally sustained harm, then the public would be able to challenge this component of the FAA in situations other than one where a possibly dangerous person stands a chance of being released. I think few would be prepared to argue his case were it not for its legal significance.

Correct me if I'm mistaken; you seem to be more educated on the subject.
I heard it wasnt that great (http://gizmodo.com/intel-compute-stick-review-don-t-buy-it-1...) any personal experience?
What "rebirth"? HP still sells the 12C. It's at WalMart and on Amazon.

I still have an original HP 11C, the "scientific" model with trig functions instead of present value. Works fine, and I use it occasionally. The batteries were last replaced in the 1990s. The record battery life is now 22 years and counting.

HP was very proud of the quality of those calculators. You cannot wear off the lettering on the keys; it goes all the way through the key.
Syria was bound to happen; but Climate Change is as important a driver as Assad
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Raspberry PI has pretty much what you're looking for. I one set up exactly for this purpose.
It depends on many things actually, especially the goals, the leadership and the social dynamics inside the team.
E.g. some feature X may be chosen among alternatives due the world-class UX professional John's desire to outdo world-class UX professional Jane while Jane is on vacation.
Wouldn't libdispatch be a much better option if you don't mind Apple's blocks extension to the C language?
Why? Amazon doesn't have a direct competitor with a "computer on a thumbdrive with an HDMI connector". Well, they do, but it's sold as "media center on a thumbdrive with an HDMI connector" and that's what a Chromecast is.
Well, when your build takes 1min on ARM and 3 seconds on your laptop, it makes sense.
Although I was a programmer before I became a designer (and still am), I've also found that graphic design (typography in particular), has positively affected how I compose functions and methods. It first started with the how I laid out my statements, then progressed eventually to size and how they were arranged.

I argue with my colleague a lot about whitespace (he likes to get rid of all of it); sometimes I wish I'd done a Ph. D. on the effect on typography on programming just to win the argument.
I think it's mainly meant to be convenient to start developing services at some point and messing around with the minor amount of satoshis that the chip can provide.

$400 might be a bit much for people on this, I feel like they'll need to modify the price and/or the machine in order for people to fully embrace the idea.
Sadly it doesn't have support for Windows MSVC yet: https://github.com/sustrik/libmill/issues/16
Likely because Amazon has no competitive product (yet).
How do you counsel a designer into better design?

I realize it's not all art/talent, but do you seriously think he can just buckle down and become a better designer?

Also, OP says he's spending a minimum of 2 hours per day with this guy.
it might be cool to represent the physical datacenter in something like this.
This somewhat reminds me of the "symbolic AI" software before the first AI winter in the early 90s... It looks like the methodolgy is making progress towards a solution, and you are able to find answers for heavily stylized sample problems...

...but then you realize a lot of the complexity is just hidden behind your definitions for the words in the TRIZ matrix (or in the case of "symbolic AI", in the precise semantic meaning you are assuming for the symbols)
A personal life assistant at a good price.

Is it realistic to get something like a 20hrs/mth retainer for like $10/hr to sort out things for me. Something that was a longer term relationship so they get to know your personality plus build trust ideally.

Possibly share this assistant with friends/family.

The role would be to create a 1) one stop shop that 2) gets to know you and 3) can remove small distraction tasks; like coordinate dinner with friends, monitor my emails to pay bills, find good tyres for my car, come up with gift ideas, find me a new cleaner etc.
Even the LastPass Will Be Stolen, Deal with It
I have an HP-41C. The buttons are nearly perfect. I would love to have a modern version of it.

I bought a new HP33 for some unknown reason. It is garbage. The buttons are horrible.
No different than Agilent locking out features in their oscilloscopes. Software and R&D isn't free.
It's the same RK3288 chip as the one in the ASUS Chromebook Flip and Hisense Chromebook. All three devices are low priced. It's likely that price drove the decision to try Rockchip.
cum: http://grammarist.com/usage/cum/
What I don't get is one the one hand it's too expensive for governments to do effective snooping (too much data to sift) but on the other hand trust would be broken because everyone could find anything... but governments would be incapable of finding information that same trust breaking information.

It's possible for both to be true. The price to snoop effectively is too high (wasting money), so either the government is wasting ridiculous amounts of money and violating everyone, or they're not wasting the money, not catching terrorists, and just using the information to violate specific individuals.

despots already leave their populations unfed, the world keeps on going.

It's the computers, not the food.

commerce happened before encryption. There hasn't been good reliable and easy to use encryption till the last couple of years. it's not as if the world hadn't globalized despite that.

Encryption is essential to modern commerce. Businesses and banks need to be able to transfer files between offices without fear that an unfriendly corporation, government, or hacker can intercept those files. Customers need to be able to download software and send payment information to companies without having a virus inserted in the download or their payment details stolen.

There are also free speech, whistleblower, and related considerations that I don't want to take the time to argue here.

But foremost, beyond all that it's still not established that forced MITM will reduce terrorism. That fundamental idea needs to be established first before any other factors are worth considering, and even then the net benefit to the world may still be greater with encryption than without.
A Haskell implementation of the Tor protocol
Amazes me how much weighting people sometimes put in these type of tools, and start panicking because they enter a website they work on and it comes back with some red text.

Have had jobs where random marketing colleagues email the developers along the lines of "Why do we only score 7/10 in this test, 45.5% in this test, and 2 critical issues were found in this test?"

Don't get me wrong, they are useful, but people act the same way they would if their virus scanner found their computer was completely comprised. Unless the tools have a major tangible impact in something that affects the business, ie. SEO, I tend to ignore them unless they are a simple fix.
There's the CuBoxTV (http://cuboxtv.com/).
I don't need an HP-41C any longer and have resisted trying to get mine repaired for that reason. But I find the keyboard just about perfect, I bought another high-end HP model at one point (28S) and never cared for the keyboard or ergonomics generally.

I still have a couple of the 12C and related models around and they work fine for when I want a calculator with real buttons.
You may be thinking of PageSpeed Service[0], which was a proxy service of Google's. PageSpeed Service was shut down[3] in May of 2015. PageSpeed Insights[1] is a service of theirs that checks pages for usability and performance and is still active. There is also a PageSpeed Insights SDK[2] available, so you could self-host if they decide to stop offering the service.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

[2] https://code.google.com/p/page-speed/

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/google-shuts-down-pagespeed...
Not sure what your point is. That there's some argument about performance? There is no way that Golang can keep compete with performance of straight C code.
There's not much of a boundary, but that wasn't exactly the point I meant to make. You can do something like encode as ASCII 0s and 1s and have low entropy without that hiding anything.
Thank you.

May I ask what in particular is seen as wrong (factually?) with Gibbon's view of Rome by today's historians? Did new information come to light since he wrote his books that makes him unsuitable for a serious historian to cite?