skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Comey believes..."

Comey is the emptiest suit I've ever seen testify before Congress. Comey is told by his handlers what he should claim to believe and otherwise he carefully avoids believing anything.

At one point today he really showed his ass. After tacitly agreeing with Leahy about "an Internet sale" of a gun which implied anyone could order a gun online without a background check, Graham asked Comey if such a purchase would be "delivered to my home."

When asked this question, the Director of the FBI, an organization that, along with the ATF, orchestrated the Fast and Furious gun-walking scheme and therefore should have absolutely zero confusion about the exclusive role of FFL holders in the transfer of firearms in the United States and the harsh federal penalties for anyone that fails to obey the relevant laws, answered in public, complete with a genuinely quizzical look;

"... I assumed it's shipped to you, but I don't know for sure actually ..."

Full stop. Not one shred of a clue. Un. Freaking. Believable.

There is nothing there. Comey is literally propping up a suit for the cameras.
Consider how flaps are shaped. When extended they increase the angle of attack; not the ratio of air travel distance.
I think that your view, while true, misses the point (or doesn't make it explicit enough): tools are what really matter, languages are simply less important and ultimately interchangeable.
Honestly, I spent a good amount of time on it trying to think how to create a video that matched the music I was 'creating.' I also saw myself creating a long song just to play in the background. Cool stuff.
My boss actually blatantly asked us all to go write some 5-star reviews, it was ridiculous.
Yes, but this data tells us nothing about mobility.

People move from class to class all the time.
Of the three, JGroups is the only one I have used. It is definitely not academic, and it serves as the infrastructure for JBoss Infinispan.
The technology to make firearms at home has existed for a hundred years.
I watched Comey's entire hearing today. The article here is accurate, but I think that it takes an strongly opinionated view of Comey's guarded and yet honest responses.

Comey knows that the solution to this problem won't be solved with legislation, which is why he isn't going to expend his energy trying to accomplish what the EFF suggests as a solution. One good thing to consider is that the EFF and the FBI both recognize that encryption can be an evil thing and that actions need to be taken to protect the citizens and the government that serves them.

With respect to the debate I'm seeing here in the comments, it seems like, to me, that there is a considerable amount of misunderstanding. What was discussed today wasn't the issue of mass surveillance, but of how or even IF these companies that offer secure communication services could aid in FBI investigations. That is both a technical and a non-technical issue. Comey calls it a non-technical issue simply because he thinks the solution ought to be left to the technical people at each company, and that in principle, regardless of encryption strength, these companies should offer a way to help the FBI in these exceptional instances. I think people here are seeing one or the other side and not realizing that Comey is aware of both.
So you're agreeing with me. Exactly one of the reasons kdbus was being pushed - because only a kernel-owned bus can give you any guarantees about who sent the message. And the stat()-like race is exactly why userland dbus cannot provide this.

The way it's been proposed in kdbus is not by querying. Messages simply get the additional information attached to them so it's guaranteed to be correct at the time of sending.
> If that is the case, and I were in your position, I would seriously consider moving elsewhere before I armed myself.

Most people who live in those areas can't really afford to do that.

In any case, the onus is on the prohibitionist to defend the policy of prohibition, not the other way around. "Guns increased your chances of dying this year by 0.003%" (~11k gun homicides over 300M population) is a totally unmoving argument to me and I suspect most people in the US. At those risk levels, might as well ban cigarettes, motorcycles, aspirin, alcohol, leaving the house...
It's true that our respective societies are very different (despite their similarities). We do not really have a small-town society in Australia. Almost all Australians live in large cities, and metro areas. This urban mindset is definitely reflected in our policies and laws.

It is worth noting however, that Sydney (where I live), is larger than every city in the US, except New York. And yet I am vastly (something like 400x) less likely to be the victim of any gun related crime than a US city dweller.
Yes, I have, and found it great (i.e. no more problems than any other library I've used). It is under (very) active development (by the same developer for 17 years now), who is also very responsive on the mailing list. JGroups serves as the foundation for JBoss Infinispan.

I don't know much about DDS (except that a company I used to work for bought the RTI implementation, and it was quite expensive).
How does Jukedeck's output differ from Koan > Noatikl ?
>why countries do not impose huge taxes on money moving in and out of tax havens

It doesn't really make the counties any more prosperous. Firstly you can't really just ban tax havens because then people would move money to countries that are not havens but just happen to have lower taxes in some area (eg. Ireland for corporate tax, Belgium for cgt). Then if you restrict money going in, outside investors are wary of bringing any money in. So you kind of end up like the UK in the 70s when they had exchange controls, high unemployment, strikes etc.

There are smarter ways to stop offshore avoidance. Usually enforcing the existing laws more thoroughly which is partly what's happening to Jersey - I have a Jersey bank account and get occasional letters about how they are being forced to declare it to the EU/UK tax authorities.
> For perspective, IBM Research provides ~O(1B)/year in revenue from licensing patents.

That is a (common) myth. If you parse IBM statements closely, they talk about that number for intellectual property licensing. I'm not aware that they have ever made a precise statement on patent revenue.
Answer starts in the last section.

1946-1948
Manufacturers quickly began producing television receivers, transmitters, antennas, etc. New television stations were built all over the United States. The FCC had identified the top 140 metropolitan cities and assigned each at least one channel; a total of 400 were to be allotted. The FCC received many more applications than it had available channels. In an effort to provide with as many channels as possible, the FCC routinely threw away the "safety factor" of mileage between licensed transmitters.

But problems began to appear. So, even with just 50 stations on the air, interference problems were beginning to appear. Meanwhile, the FCC had reduced the minimum distance between stations using the same channel to just 80 miles. An engineering study released by the FCC warned of interference problems if immediate action wasn't taken. That lead to an FCC report issued on may 5, 1949, that rules that television could no longer share its frequencies with fixed and mobile services, and that the 72 to 76 MHz band could be used for fixed radio services only.

But where could the mobile services be located if they could no longer share the television allocations, and could no longer be used for use the 72 to 76 MHz band? There was only one place to go -- the television industry would have to give up another television channel. But which channel would that be? The American Radio Relay League (an association of amateur radio operators) urged that Channel 2 be deleted so that the second harmonics of the 28-29.7 MHz amateur radio band would not interfere with television reception. The television industry, although not pleased about losing yet another television channel, agreed that 12 clear channels were preferable to 12 shared channels. If they had to lose a channel, they preferred that it be Channel 1, because its absence would have the least impact on commercial television.

The FCC went along with the television industry's position, and on June 14, 1948, Channel 1 was deleted from the allocation plan. Channel 1"s frequencies were assigned to the land and mobile services. At the same time, the FCC decided not to renumber the channels -- that is what happened to Channel 1.
I definitely reread your comment several times and kept stewing on the word "intractable" since I'd seen it used somewhere else to talk about problems in NP-Complete. I assumed if I was misinterpreting what you were saying, it would hinge on that word.

Aside from factoring, what kinds of things do we think will meaningfully change if we get general QC? Cryptographers are already preparing for the post-quantum world. Who else needs to be preparing?

Everything I think I understand about QC suggests that a practical breakthrough will not cause any changes in society, other than the abandonment of RSA. Am I missing something?
Many such accounts are used by individuals for personal purposes. It's the only non-hokey way to use Gmail with a vanity domain.

By now, many of us have app and content purchases tied to those accounts, and migrating from Gmail/Drive/Photos isn't practical, so we're stuck getting new Google features later or never.
I think part of the problem is that the classroom demonstrations give a false impression of how quickly airplanes actually move. 200kph is not something that can be visualized on a 20-inch wide TV screen, or even a 20-foot wide projection. With slow-moving animations it is hard to imagine wings pushing enough air downward to keep a 747 airborne. So observers latch onto quazi-mystical explanations that sound good enough to be put on a test.
tl;dr as more spectrum was used in the late 1940s a channel had to be freed up to deal with interference issues so they picked channel 1 and simply choose not to renumber.

You'd think the article would explore why they didn't renumber, but nope.

Legacy hardware and possible consumer confusion seem like the most likely speculation.
"Is every creator of encryption software supposed to build in a master key and hand that over to the FBI?"

Including, presumably, not only programmers who're not under the jurisdiction of the FBI, but also programmers for whom the FBI is genuinely "their and their nation's adversary"?

Reminds me of a recent tweet: Homeland Security's new "House Un-American Mathematics Committee": https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/67290345222221824
Really? I'm in the USA hear and I have sealants, but have never noticed any difference in feel compared to before (I had them applied in my teens). It sounds like yours were put on REALLY thick. Mine were only put into the indents of my back teeth, so maybe that is the difference?
I believe smartphones will be looked back from the future and seen as what they really are: a clunky way to interact with information.

AR is definitely the future of all interfaces, not an audacious bet at all, pragmatic in fact.
I agree, expecting to use an industrial arrangement for family purposes seems…strange to say the least.

Anecdotally - I was a longtime Rdio user, from beta until they recently closed. I did the trial of Google Play Music and it's not only the best good product I've ever used, but I have already gifted 6 months to my sister. Christmas is coming up, and I'm tempted to gift it again to other people.

If you enjoy music and haven't checked out Google Play Music, I'd encourage you to give it a shot. So far it's everything I've wanted plus more!
If you compare the effort that AMD spends on OpenCL compared to what NVidia spends on CUDA then you'll see why everyone just used NVidia.

I'm not a big fan of vendor "standards", but I have very limited sympathy for OpenCL here.

I think the best hope for portability is at the higher level programming API layer. For example TensorFlow is careful to make switching between CPU and GPU painless.
Then I am sorry for the bad life circumstances that have given rise to your cognitive deficiency. I'd explain further but by your own logic, you won't understand it anyway so there's no point.
Which actually highlights the unstated cultural elements of class aside from income.

Is an Ivy educated woman working at an NGO for 30k the same class as a shift manager at Walmart making 30k? Is a postdoc at Stanford lower class than a factory worker whose income is triple a postdoc stipend?
Thank you for mentioning this. I don't know how many times I've argues against the classical definition of lift in the last couple of years and finally reverted to the hand out the window explanation. That's usually when it dons on people that lift isn't what they were taught it was.
My impression is that this pedantry -- see also terminology disputes about rifles, assault rifles, long guns, magazines, clips, etc. -- is often gun enthusiasts finding a pretext for mocking anyone outside the group who expresses an opinion.

In many cases, as in this one, the meaning was perfectly clear and raising the terminology issue is just a distraction.
I'm not sure what to make of this piece. It draws you in with the curious challenge to "choose design over architecture" but uses terms loosely and merely gives broad claims like "Unfortunately, this kind of a grand plan usually leads to technical-debt that collapses towards complete immobility."

It then wanders to the topics of "SOLID," "Optimize for change, but don't optimize in advance," "Commit to refactoring," and finally concedes "There is still a place for architectural planning"

I think I made a mistake reading this piece; the complexity of the relationship between architecture and customer asks is much too complex to be answered with a few quotable phrases. Maybe I should have known this going in.
Why I Bought Starbucks
Back when Apps for Work was "Google Apps for Your Domain", non-business/vanity use was part of the marketing.

I use (paid) Google Apps for personal & family stuff - and this seems like a pretty arbitrary restriction on Play Music.
Probably because if you had an old set and were watching on Ch2 but your neighbor was watching the same thing on Ch1 on a new set, that could have been a bit confusing at the dawn of television.

Or, watch ABC news on Ch2 on old sets, but Ch1 on new sets...., wait, do I have an old set or a new set?
Sometimes, in order to understand the higher level concepts to a satisfying degree, there is no choice other than to learn and understand the low-level stuff. I think Java Concurrency in Practice has everything you need (even if you're not using Java). It is aimed at the practitioner, but covers all the necessary background.
tl;dr The wings pump air down from above, causing lift not through pressure effects but rather from the volume of displacement.

(I got a little bit lost in the discussion of upwash. It seemed to me that the idea was upwash was less efficient at moving air than downwash, and therefore more air was moved down.)
i'm using the emscriptenised version of bullet physics library for a web pool simulation - it does work surprisingly well.
Playing 3-D video games can boost memory formation
Summer hours could also mean that the expectation that employees have the option of taking the entire Friday off during the summer, provided that you schedule into your work Mon-Thurs. to make for the lost "eight hours unit" across those four days of work (e.g., WFH, come in an hour earlier).
We are kind of screwed when capital can create value without labor, which might happen with automation.
> Generally speaking, the one universal truth within libertarianism is the non-aggression principle, which states that force should not be used.

Which is one of the most nonsensical things about libertarianism - that any time authority want you do to something, it's referred to as 'violence'. It's 'violence' because if you keep refusing to comply, then at the end of a long chain of events, eventually an authorised officer will start to manhandle you. Hence even the smallest thing becomes 'violence'.

Yet...

Libertarianism offers "the courts" as the solution to pretty much all disputes. What happens when someone doesn't comply with court rulings? The court finds that your activities have injured your neighbour and you must give remuneration. You flip off both the court and the neighbour. What happens now? Libertarianism has quite a few of these blind spots.

Again, you don't have to be a Libertarian to be for civil liberties.
s/vote/core/
One good thing to consider is that the EFF and the FBI both recognize that encryption can be an evil thing and that actions need to be taken to protect the citizens and the government that serves them.

It's not a useful classification. Encryption can be used for evil, just as everything else in the world can.

Comey calls it a non-technical issue simply because he thinks the solution ought to be left to the technical people at each company, and that in principle, regardless of encryption strength, these companies should offer a way to help the FBI in these exceptional instances.

There's a difference between leaving it to technical people to help, and forcing technical people to help. Legislation is the route to the latter.

There is no way for technical people to help against a good cryptosystem unless that cryptosystem has been subverted from the start. This is the new world we live in, and it's up to law enforcement to either recognize that fact, or weaken American encryption relative to the rest of the world, with predictable consequences.

EDIT: "The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8428632
There's a few pics of a slide from yesterday at NIPS 2015 showing that TensorFlow 0.6 increases performance between 30 and 40% on AlexNet and Overfeat.
UUUUUUH propose this to the SEC but don a flame retardant suit first...
Quantum physics problem unsolvable: Godel and Turing enter quantum physics
Really cool product! Lots of good feedback on the page so I'm sure that's exciting.

A lot of people are mentioning video games, but another interesting use case for real-time streaming would be for running. There's tons of data on my smartphone that can help inform where the music might want to go next. Would definitely be cool to have my own personal band synced with my body's running rhythm.
How to animate a digital model from images collected from the Internet
Don't forget the portal has no back button, and a 30 second page timeout!
> Fields only exist to be indexed. If a field is not needed for an index, store it in one blob/text field (such as JSON or XML).

A cautionary tale...
It can be tempting to store serialized objects in your DB. This can be very dangerous, both for debugging and for migrations. Your data is coupled to your application in subtle ways and you can get stale references if you store any relationships in the "blob". JSON or XML isn't so terrible, at least a human can read that -- using a true BLOB is a kiss of death. A database is a handy abstraction for storing data, I highly recommend that you use this abstraction (and all abstractions) for humans first and robots second.

Granted, this is an article about optimization and in that regard I'm sure it yields benefits. If you must squeeze every last drop of juice out of a MySQL server, then do this -- just know that it comes with a price.
> these companies should offer a way to help the FBI in these exceptional instances

No. If it's at all possible for the technical staff to help the FBI when 'appropriate', then it will also be possible for them to snoop on you for any other inappropriate reason (jealous boyfriend stalking his girlfriend, corporate espionage for profit, etc.)
Is it me, or is the article vaguely sexist? If it was a man, would they have called out to his gender in the headline? Or are they using the fact she is a woman as a form of clickbait?
Support Ending for the .NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1
Same impression here. This piece had a surprising lack of depth given the vastness each topic the author decided to drop in the middle of it without any honest attempt to tie them together to the broader narrative.
Wait, if they kept walking past the point of damage... cartilage damage would start going away?! Am I reading what you quoted correctly?
Say, a generic container.
Training an ANN is computationally intensive, using a trained ANN is not. No context switching for system calls, no memory management, just matrix math.
Is forwarding mail to your personal gmail account from the domain registrar, postfix, or whatever else you use considered hokey? It works really nice in all instances I've done that. It even replys from the same address mail was sent to once you verify you own the email address.
I think you're on the right track here. To me, the middle class is defined not by assets, but by having your survival and security reasonably assured -- to the point, as you say, that you don't have to spend all your time worrying about them. You have to work, but you have some free time and disposable income.
Do you have any instructions on how to do RemoteApp with AWS Workspaces? I use an AWS Workspaces box to run a few key apps on Windows, and I'd love to use them in a more Coherence-mode style.
Why? There are many aspects that would be covered by gun control, not just mass shootings.

Lower the suicide rate: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-owne...

The risk of you or family getting shot: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full

And again, I don't think any serious argument in favor of some sort of gun control argues that it will eliminate the problem, just reduce it.
My god I remember doing exactly this for a semiconductor capex company back in 2010.
Or Wright has Multiple Personality Disorder[1]. One is sloppy and the other is thorough.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10625626
How do you define capitalism? There are places that have money but lack sufficient property rights to support a system of capitalism.

i.e. "it's my land because I live here and work on it" vs "it's my land because I own a title deed as recognised by some authority".
Cheap+Nike+Shoes+Sale
It's a spectrum, but VR can do with more like 50 and be very good.
A long, long time ago when there were only 4 channels to watch on our B&W TV, I asked my dad this question. He said something about it interfering with radio traffic but his apocryphal speculation was that it was so that no one network would get to be "#1".
I came to start making the references via Murakami, personally.
You should at least read

"Rethinking PID 1" from 2010
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html

Lennart has written an enormous amount of excellent articles about systemd.
Sure, np. But don't want to say them out aloud because it's not nice to stereotype in public.

Instead look up the list of the most expensive undergraduate tuition in US, filter for schools that has the (largest price tag * (1 - percentage of demonstrated financial aid met)) / academic rigor ratio.
Well yes but Google spending some obscene amount of money for a 108x speedup is beyond farcical even if it's not asymptotic :)
There was some controversy that they ripped off the designs of many of these rooms without giving the designers credit:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/designer-sues-airbnb...
Just look at the top 20 colleges in US News and World Reports and remove all the ivies (and the top engineering schools if you're an engineering student).
Oh interesting. That's a totally different and much better approach that what I proposed in sibling post!
Guardería de Colliers Wood Willows temen que las radiaciónes de la antena base