skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not USB mass storage, but what you're describing sounds like MTP. It's the protocol used in a bunch of old (first-iPhone-era) media players, and I think the default for Android 5+ or so.

Used to write software to interact with it on the computer side with the Microsoft Windows Media Player SDKs. It did have the whole VFS and send the data over then commit thing.
I used to teach in special education environments. Specifically I've had experience with high to mid functioning kids on the autism spectrum in science and mathematics.

While I can appreciate the sentiments of folks that may find this sort of thing recognizable because of those who are self-diagnosing across the Internet (which is not a new trend BTW), I'm inclined to believe this isn't the appropriate forum for that.

I too thought this may have been something of less note or of the aforementioned tone until I got the opportunity to read the post in its entirety.

> The me that felt an overwhelming terror at the idea of travelling on the tube or getting into a lift. The me that didn’t claim child benefit for any one of my four children simply because the idea of filling in a form was too much.

> No one saw the me that would spend 14 hours straight, focused on a project, forgetting to dress. The me that felt an overwhelming terror at the idea of travelling on the tube or getting into a lift.

> I was told I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a rare genetic connective tissue disorder, which affects pretty much every part of my body, causing gastroparesis – where the digestive system simply shuts down – knees that dislocate and autonomic issues, including difficulty in regulating temperature and heart rate.

Having sat in on meetings where parents, and their children, are given the opportunity to identify with a particular condition, I can tell you that this is a profound experience, not to be taken lightly.

Being able to have a direction to go towards in identifying IEPs that may lead their child towards a different and more successful path in their lives doesn't involved "mixed feelings." This isn't limited to education.

I have no doubt this is profoundly true for adults who have the capacity to discover and explore their own route toward their feelings of betterment and belonging in this world.
I've been thinking a lot about source code transformations as a possible key for maintenance in the "future" of programming. Its interesting to see that the preprocessor, which is a source code transformation itself, makes other source code transformations much more difficult, if not intractable. I'm wondering if this inherent to any macro system since they are not bijective.

Two possible directions I see away from macros which would play nicely with source code transformations are un-macros and layers of languages.

Un-macros would take source and display it in the condensed form only for human reading -- this takes away from human writing power of course, which may have to get pushed into the editor. This could also allow for automated pattern discovery.

Layers of languages would look similar to Racket's #lang concept and current macro systems, but without the ability to escape back into the parent language. This creates a new language on top of -- not mixed into -- the parent language.
To everyone complaining about the price: It's pretty difficult to build a robot that does much of anything for under ~$40. And this isn't just a robot, it has All these pieces that communicate with each other.
I think this article misses the most obvious point. Encryption is widely available for free and in the open. It's not about listing the devices or code they might not trust, if there's even one that they do trust, then you can backdoor everything else and it won't matter.

Why do they think they can put the Genie back in the bottle? The answer is they know that they can't, the backdoor only effects the people who don't care they are being tracked. It's not for terrorists, it's for people who carry smartphones. Which is almost everyone, so good enough for them. But the argument is absolutely nothing to do with "preventing terrorism".
It's a set of Borromean rings, a personal favorite "knot" (really a braid) of mine and a remarkably common occurrence in iconography once you start looking for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings
What a terribly titled article. Per arbuge's comment, this has nothing to do with the IoT.

But more egregiously...AWS recently announced their own IoT platform. https://aws.amazon.com/iot/

To title an article that just talks about the Amazon store's purposely excluding certain products as in any way relating to IoT in light of that is just...I am dumbfounded that an alleged tech site could be so misleading.
For such a problem, usually
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the plane. So, it might
be fair to ask the size
of the paper and what
happens with the needle
near the edges? E.g., on
a rectangular sheet of paper
of finite size, the needle
can land in a position so that
it does not cross a line
but would on a larger sheet
of paper.
maybe they were afraid that time is never comming.
They already have this in Australia (minus the app). They're called "toy libraries" and are great.
That's Inversion of Control , not Dependency Injection .
Did you read the paper? It discusses Flash / SSD and explains why SSD does not disrupt the conclusion.
What is the date of this publication?
(Also, why do authors decline to date their papers?)
https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/04/30/firefox-syncs-n...

Your point is well-taken that I'm just replacing one external service with another, so the difference isn't large enough to convince anyone to switch. My original response in this thread was just to point out prior work relevant to the brainstorming above.
None of the advances you speak of in this "restoration" are essential. And they are all impossible to sustain culturally without discarding fundamental religious beliefs, such as a focus on the afterlife, and the idea that morality has its basis in faith rather than reason.
America's CEOs and hedge funds are starving the nation's corporations to death
nope, because they could have been forfeited by a court anyways.
I'd say the F-111's system is just about perfect, although having a chunk of the airplane (the cockpit) thrust away and deploy its own parachute isn't always going to be practical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8l79lSjVMg
http://www.f-111.net/ejection.htm
You are ignoring the bandwidth differences between protocols.
This is really great for people who build out datacenters, but a large portion of consumers of compute+data will lease that from providers like Amazon and Azure, which means they cannot enjoy the benefit of the Disk I/o ~= local network i/o equation. There's no guarantee that a parcel of EC2 nodes is in a single rack, or even in a single datacenter, and so network i/o is not comparable to disk i/o.

Am I mistaken?
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Despite our differences, the Islamic State finds you and I offensive - do not let your offense shut your mind to superior ideas.
Asset forfeiture is armed robbery, not burglary. Although it wouldn't surprise me if the police do that too.
It all depends on the start up. Some start ups have a lot of authorized shares and some have less. This is all reflected in the capitalization table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_table) of the company. The cap table also contains information such as the number of preferred shares and different rounds of preferred shares (Series A, B, ...).

What people sometimes don't realize are the liquidation preferences on the preferred shares. The liq pref is usually 1-3x depending on who has the negotiating leverage. Out in SF, most liq prefs are 1x. This means on an acquisition, the investors get 1x whatever they invested first before any common shareholders get paid. This means that many acquisitions are not successful. A good recent example is Rdio (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rdio#/entity). They got acquired for 75M, but investors put in 126M. This means the investors lost money, but common shareholders (shares from stock options) got nothing.

A good scenario would be an acquisition where everyone makes money. A good recently example is Business Insider,investors put in 55M, but the company got bought for 343M easily clearing the investor liq pref (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/business-insider#/en...). Employees with common shares also probably made a good amount as well.

One thing that also hurts employees are the AMT taxes that are associated with exercising the stock options before a liquidation event. In the examples above, employees have to pay taxes on the spread of the strike price to the fair market value of when they exercised. If an employee had a lot of shares, the taxes could end up quite high.(http://employeestockoptions.com/amttax/)
Yes, you are right. Thanks! I was kind of depressed because of my slim chances, but with all these responses I certainly am looking differently at this situation.
I wouldn't underestimate, if nothing else, the mental impact of being sold on a company with a major piece of comp being RSUs at a price, almost certainly derived from the last round raised, that are then worth a lot less. Obviously nobody will be out-of-pocket on them, but they got a salary much less than they were sold on. This can't work wonders for retention, and makes golden handcuffs more like paper handcuffs.
By doing that, you're implicitly saying "exploit me". You are helping them succeed, but only in the way that they want. I don't think subjecting yourself to such torture, when it will only bring more of the same, is a good idea.
I'll admit I didn't really get started until 2000, and I'd also push the end-range to around 2009. And I did use the Mozilla Suite back then (pre Seamonkey naming).

The main problem with IE, regardless of how good it is, is that it is windows only. This was true of all of Microsoft's stuff (particularly crappy mac versions don't count) (I also wasn't a fan of Mac OS 9 ... but there was bsd and linux for a number of years by then...) They used their own formats, which were not publicly documented or even really designed. If you had to use any single Microsoft thing, you practically had to use it all. Samba and later OpenOffice changed the situation but were really a lot of reverse-engineering and bug-for-bug-compatibility work, and of course Microsoft kept moving the goalposts with new versions and new bugs.

The resentment comes from the lock-in. You had to pay a lot of money and deal with licenses (or pirate and deal with cracks) just to experiment. You had to deal with the surprisingly flaky file sharing and dhcp client etc. You had to deal with the fact that there wasn't a good terminal or shell, that the compiler was not trivial to download and install and invoke from a script, etc. If you have the freedom to choose the "convenience" of the Microsoft user-oriented products or not, it's not such a big deal that Microsoft everything sucked for networking related development. But if the lock-in gets you somehow, you really resent it.

EDIT: and I almost forgot! microsoft calling linux a "cancer", funding lawsuits over linux kernel code, trying to make it harder for linux to support ACPI based systems - more underhanded lock-in to their crap
The only advantage listed of the Midwest over the west/east coast is cost of living which you would expect to go up once the long promised "Silicon Prairie" takes shape. Silicon Prairie News is a cool site to see regional news on tech but I've always found it to overhype itself time and time again. There are certainly quite a few growing tech companies in the area in the same way that there were growing engineering companies in the past. It's hard for me to see there ever being a "boom" in tech that makes it comparable to Silicon Valley. We just don't have the investment capital or the human resources to compete despite our cost of living advantages.
I've had this happen, and it's wrong. The price must be adjusted based on the terms. Common stock has basically no terms, so strike price should be much, much lower than what investors are paying for preferred.
"Deproliferation" is impossible. It's not like banning guns. It's like banning the idea of how a gun works from ever being communicated, burning every book that contains the concept, erasing it from all electronic records, and strictly monitoring anyone with chemistry or metallurgy knowledge.

All you need to write an encryption program is an explanation of the concept behind a single algorithm, someone with math smarts, and almost any computer.
You are saying what I am saying. There are no good answers. Doesn't mean we stop looking for answers. Which is what the focus of these debates should be.

It's easy when there are no good answers, to take a dump on the decisions people in positions of responsibility take. It just distracts and complicates the story.
It was just a hypothetical example of the kinds of changes that would have flocked everyone to Python 3.
For some reason the roboto font couldn't load on my macbook (chrome) and defaulted to a serif font.
I am mildly colorblind. Doesn't really impact much in day-to-day life, but knowing it allows me to understand that the world I see is not the same as the world most people see.

I have no interest in a "cure" any more than I'd try to cure the colors of my eyes.

Diagnosis can alleviate the push to conform. With greater awareness of colorblindness most designers worth anything avoid creating problem color combinations (e.g. red text on a black background). Many video games even have colorblind palate swaps for problematic area.

This seems to be happening with the Autism spectrum. As more people realize that there are people who are just wired in their own unique way we are starting to see more organizations and groups learning to embrace different ways of thinking rather than requiring conformity.
My white neighbor thought I was breaking into my apartment. 19 cops showed up
You can easily make sure your machines in the same datacenter.
Metadata may force your ISP to Spy on You
if you dont want to put yourself under risk while you are using the internet, you have to use this vpn service to prevent your ISP from following and be secured and safe all of the time.
http://www.vpnfaqs.com/2015/06/metadata-may-force-your-isp-spy-on-you/
Their contract with Starbucks is ending soon. Going forward their reader fees will be profitable to the company.
Rather than focus on the phone, could you look into getting a femto cell installed?

In my country some of our providers support these and you can buy/install them legally. You could contact your networks to see if they support this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell

I had an old Nokia candy bar that used to get great reception. If he's just making calls this could be good, plus in a low reception environment batteries drain quickly too so the candybar would be suitable.
For me, seeing that each page hits GoogleAnalytics and Gravitar and DoubleClick turns me away immediately.
At the present time an average police officer can shoot an average unarmed person, kill them and will likely face zero criminal charges for the act.

In all seriousness, that is getting very close to a police state.
From a second market type broker who trades private tech company shares (Oct 1st 2015):

''We have only 4000 shares of Square left at $16.50. I believe Goldman is going to price the IPO well north of $25 and the $16.50 is less than the price that Square is granting stock options to employees!''

A good reminder that people are making (and losing) a lot of money behind the scenes of our industry.
Maybe I'm missing something but what's the point of Bitcoin if all of your payments are going through a credit card company?
No sooner would a coffee shop be seen without a Square reader and an Edison bulb

I'm not so sure about that. I'd agree that they all have "fancy" (for want of a better word) payment systems, but I don't think there's a reason they have to be the fancy ones made by Square.

But more importantly: the US is (finally) moving to chipped and tap-to-pay transactions. That means that pretty much all merchant hardware is going to need to be replaced over time, so the market the Square (and everyone else) currently has is up for grabs. If I were looking at investing in Square that would make me nervous.
It's not really irrelevant considering the paper outlines that it's important to keep data in the same rack.

Disk locality is not that important when you're fully async, as throughput tends to be similar, however, if your code is not fully async then you usually pay significant penalties in latency, and if multiple nodes are able to access the data then you pay a huge price in caching.
This write-up doesn't explain how to program the device, but this page does
http://docs.primotoys.com/docs/cubetto-manual.html#introduct...

Basically, you program a sequence of commands FORWARD, LEFT, RIGHT.
There is also a special command FUNCTION that executes a user-specified sequence of up to four commands.

Does it allow the FUNCTION command within the definition of the function?
If it does, there's a lot of non-trivial stuff with recursion to do

For instance, a stack overflow

commands = [FUNCTION]

function = [FUNCTION, FUNCTION]
One gets a distinct sense that the companies focused on copycat readers are in a great deal of trouble. Much better to be the original card reader and stay focused on original problems

...I don't see why? PayPal is/was far bigger than Square. If the hardware is easy to duplicate, I'd rather be the larger company with an established presence.
Yeah sorry, it's a week old and I pushed it to GitHub just so I could link to something in that comment ;)

Something of a README is now up.
I'm interested in similar options for startups. Where was the company registered, and what would be the taxes, etc?

I would ideally want to start a company in Silicon Valley or any other tech centres of the U.S., but I guess such an option would require shelling out a great deal for taxes, offices, living expenses, salaries, etc.

Being Indian, Bangalore isn't an option either given it's rise in CoL.
The difference is if we look at it from the point of view of the Python community (and they are all about Python 3). But another view is that of developers who see themselves as developers of product X or company Y and they value their bread on their table or that X and Y wins more than Python is popular or Python succeeds.
I'm more concerned about a commercial site that bought "suicide" as a term.
"At the present time an average police officer can shoot an average unarmed person, kill them and will likely face zero criminal charges"

Do you have an independent reference for that, by any chance?

It would also be interesting to hear your opinion as to typical motive for doing such a thing.
Why can you cancel orders in a few milliseconds? It looks very much like a great opportunity to rig the marker.
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I think "here is some math" is a good way, but you need to be really delicate about it and take it slowly. What you're fighting is an emotional reaction that's hard-wired into our brains. The problem stems from them having an invalid view of the world, i.e. perceiving terror attacks as vastly more probable than they really are. Therefore you need to fix their worldview - or rather, help them fix it themselves. Showing the attacks in perspective is one way to do that, and the one that - over time - helped me stop worrying, even though after 9/11 I was scared the world is ending and that I'll die in a mall attack tomorrow. It takes time, and you can't push it too hard - if you become their conversational enemy, you've not just lost, you'll strenghten their fears.
I'd be willing to bet that Rungta watched and consumed with great joy Walter Lewin's Physics 8.01 videos. I'd further bet that he mentioned them in this interview with MIT News, only to have his comments omitted from the piece, because Lewin is, in MIT's eyes, persona non grata. Of course this is just conjecture. I just said I'd be willing to take the bet.
That would only compete with Square Cash, which Square loses money on anyway.
I don't know much about Buddhism, but your suggestion about joining a Christian or Muslim church is likely to backfire. If you're joining out of purely a desire for social connection, you may find some difficulty if you discover the philosophical requirements are too much for you to bear.

In other words, you might make friends, then realize you're not on board with the theology, then end up with a very rough break up. This happened to me in college at least. Led to the worst time of my life.
It's so easy to pile on since this post is already almost invisible, but this sounds like Richard Stallman's throwaway. The point isn't that it's proprietary, it's that it's an effective tool to use. Also, we're talking about the fact that it is being open sourced so I think your comment is coming from a place of hurt. Who hurt you, bro? Was it Bill? Show me on this doll where Bill hurt you.
In a criminal case, you would get a Public Defender.

In a civil case, there are public-interest agencies who may be interested, or with a strong case a skilled attorney could take your case on contingency.
Hmmm interesting.... I have had in depth conversations about this, and I strongly feel that you are missing something. Sure, in certain areas having a ipad/square reader combo is not necessary. It may actually be detrimental I would imagine. I am not talking about some random small town in Missouri, I am talking about less trendy districts of a city or a coffee shop with a more old school vibe. BUT in large cities and metropolitan areas having a square reader instantly makes your company more trendy and part of an in crowd. This trend will continue to disseminate outward... not with the square reader necessarily, but with some new point of sale system. But already square is at the for front of this movement, we wont continue to use these old POS systems forever. Change will occur.
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This is hilarious! Are they actually targetting 3 year olds? This device would be destroyed in moments of my 3 year old getting hold of it.
I have an contrarian view as to why Square seems like a company poised to grow.

All that customers and shopowners care about is simplicity of payment. Square has got that spot on and has pretty good market share which will only grow.

Only tow things can hurt them

1. Existing device that works as card reader. Think of iPhone that can accept payments.
2. Some kind of government regulation.

I dont see that happening. Even Apple's pay p2p thing wont be a threat simply because it probably wont accept a physical card. [Correct me if I am wrong].
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As much as I'd like to see this using an existing standard, I'm very glad - my upload bandwidth is <1 megabit, and I get several disconnections a day (ADSL desync)
I liked this comment on Reddit which I think is relevant in a discussion about combatting this form of terrorism:

"The problem is that we have forgotten the power of ideology and the way that you cultivate civilized discourse and expectations. In the Western world, we've spent the last 40 years shitting all over the best weapons we have to address ideology: philosophy, literature, poetry, art, music and religious discourse. We've marginalized the way to talk about the abstract elements of human experience, and now we find that we have nothing to say."