skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
same reason I switched. I let them know, too.
I doubt that the mule would be of much use then. The range of the fully loaded mule was fairly limited. A battery powered version would have an even more limited range. This is possibly true even with a fuel cell.

I don't think that it's a total waste, provided the Government gets the R&D. The machine can follow a human without direct controll. This could be added to alternative tech.

At the same time it could be useful in non war scenarios like fire fighting or rescue and recovery. In both situations stealth is not important. Getting into remote areas might be possible, and better with these machines. If necessary, depending on environmental factors, fuel deposit could be dropped ahead of time.
> Good chance that this long-winded response will end up being lost in a stale thread

The same is true of my post, I'm glad you responded :)

And yes, doubtless we agree on a lot more than we disagree on, which I try to keep in mind even when I'm tempted to get heated in an Internet argument.

But even so I'm gonna skip over most of the first half of your essay since you indeed appear to be saying things I agree with (the summary seems to be "privilege is complicated and people on all 'sides' routinely get it wrong"?), and chime in on what I appear to disagree with you on.

> resulting in harrowing statistics like men comprising 3/4 of successful suicides.

This seems to always be the centerpiece of arguments about "female privilege", because other examples tend to be much more nebulous whereas mortality statistics are concrete and factual. But there's nuance here, as you seem aware but don't at all address: though the numbers are less certain, experts agree that women attempt more suicides, they're just less "successful". From my understanding, this is fully explainable (but debated, don't get me wrong!) as just the differing lethality in the societally gendered methods of suicide, but for the sake of argument let's say there's a real, societal, systemic problem causing male suicide rates to be much higher. I'm still going to argue that male privilege is like white privilege (which you're "comfortable with" as part of a binary, right) and female privilege isn't, in spite of the higher suicide rate.

First reason? You realize that suicide among white people is more than twice as high as among black people?

"Toxic whiteness" is indeed rarely discussed, but "affluenza" is only ridiculous when used as a legal defense, it'd be like arguing that a black person is not guilty of murder because they were under the influence of racism; but there's nothing ridiculous about the idea that being rich is actually a curse, you ever seen Gossip Girl? :P (I think we can agree Gossip Girl didn't exactly pioneer that story element.) Other axes of privilege have similar ideas, e.g. "heteronormativity". There's nothing special about masculinity in this regard. The kyriarchy hurts everyone.

So if heteronormativity hurts straight people too, and the patriarchy hurts men too, why is being straight and/or male a privilege? For the same reason that it's not "oppression olympics" to say that even though white people have a higher suicide rate and are underrepresented in hip-hop (just like men have a higher suicide rate and are underrepresented in nursing and stuff), being white is a privilege in black-white relations.

Final note---did I mention that "acknowledging the distress while continuing to point out the difference in scale" is a quote from one of the best essays I've ever read? Have you read it yet? I would love to hear your thoughts: http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privile...
> A former Yahoo exec Chi-Chao Chang quit after just a day on the job

I would love to hear the story behind that!
I don't think they would be foolish enough to patent Bitcoin. I would assume they would
Lose due to prior art if it were ever challenged. My guess is that they like the block chain idea and they are innovating around that concept in a way that could benefit them.
I expect this is an insurance move: iterate through the cross-product of bitcoin concepts and current banking tech, eliminate the nonsensical pairings, and make plausible applications for the remainder. That way they cover their bases in case there's something game-changing lurking within.
Mostly just applying for patents for existing technology/novel uses for Bitcoin, so that someone else doesn't beat them to it in case the technology turns out useful. Filing patents is a pretty cheap way of ensuring you don't end up the victim of patent lawsuits in future (for large corporations at least).
It's actually surprisingly hard to get OPSEC right, because most of the time you either don't think what you're doing warrants a huge amount of resources spent prosecuting you, or you don't realise how big it is until it's too late.

One of the biggest links from the Silkroad owner's identity outside of tor was the fact that he promoted his own site in the early days, using an alias he had used to ask questions on stackoverflow. He probably didn't realise how important good OPSEC was until much later in the game.

I recently had the chance to help the FBI in an effort to catch a child abuser in collaboration with an NGO. It was very interesting to see how "techies" can piece together a scary level of detail about someone's identity using everyday things like the clothes they wear (if they bought them online) or how their house is decorated. Details of how were withheld from us, but the suspect got caught.
Fake it till you make it
Here's a number which are all some shameless plugs:

- Personal blog - http://www.craigkerstiens.com/categories/postgres/

- Postgres guide - http://www.postgresguide.com/

- Postgres Weekly - http://www.postgresweekly.com

Beyond that there's this which has a number of resources https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres and finally in terms of reference documentation the Postgres docs themselves are great (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/). Though a word of caution the Postgres docs aren't the best on the tutorial, but for reference docs they're great.
Would be nice if the page mentioned how this differs from/improve on projects like Lively Kernel?:

https://www.lively-kernel.org/
I did say there has been an attack on fingerprint in my comment above, BTW.

Everything can be stolen. I am not sure if you can stop identity thief. Someone would have done so if it can be stopped. The goal is to make stealing harder. Combine fingerprint with other verification (see above too). My original comment was on the fact that once you sign in with fingerprint, you are good to with for a duration (Captial One logs you out automatically after ~2 minute of inactivity on my iPhone, which is wayyyyyy more secured than other bank apps I have used).
The numbers in the telephone book are not copyright-able. You are perfectly able to produce a book of phone numbers in the same order and distribute it. However, if you were to photocopy an existing telephone book then you would be violating copyright.

Google did not produce their own compatible files containing the list of methods, classes, and interfaces. They copied Oracle's files.
Swift? As an Android Developer I think it would not be a great idea.
C# maybe a better language(wasn't that open sourced?). It much closer to java than swift is and would allow people like me to move cover over faster.

I started off as a C# developer and had not done any real work in java before. I was able to move my C# code(couple thousand lines of code) over to Java in a matter of hours.

Anyway I do not wish or hope for a language change period.
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Anyone using dl4j?

http://deeplearning4j.org/
I wonder if this was the inspiration behind the scene in the 2nd season of "Silicon Valley" in which a top engineer speeds out of Hooli after spending a few minutes with the team led by Baghead:

http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-story-of-clinkle-2014-...

Everything below is directly copied from the Business Insider story linked above:

One day prior, Duplan had proudly announced a new hire, Chi-Chao Chang. A former Yahoo and xAd executive, Chang was Clinkle’s new vice president of engineering. It was a position recruiters had been trying to fill for months, and Chang had come highly recommended by former Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz. The soft-spoken engineer had stood up and shared a few words about his background. He said he was excited to be joining Clinkle.

Now, just 24 hours later, Chang was nowhere to be seen.

Duplan cleared his throat, nervously shifting his weight. “Chi-Chao has left Clinkle,” he announced. “He decided it's too much for him.”

There was a long pause. Duplan stumbled over a few more sentences trying to explain. Instead he talked in circles, a trait employees described as typical. Some began to wonder whether even he knew why Chang had left.

McCarthy stepped in.

“It’s not the kid’s fault,” McCarthy said, defending his flustered boss. McCarthy sometimes took over for Duplan during the weekly all-hands meetings on Fridays, correcting him and referring to him as “kid.”

Chang had been well-vetted during the interview process, McCarthy insisted. The news came as a shock to everyone.

“It was disheartening,” says one ex-Clinkler. “That was the moment when we were like, ‘Oh, no. Things are not good.’”

“It obviously looked bad,” another former employee recalls. “Like the guy saw our product and it scared him away.”
As indicated by the title of the link, I think it allows you to build a "desktop" metaphor in the browser. ExtJS used to have some similar demos but I think their license is pretty restrictive. One use case for this is something that I happen to use regularly - the web interface on the Synology NAS.
Throw path in there for good measure. Often times I see path in code and have no idea if it's expected to be a directory, file, relative path, etc...
First: Get your interview story straight. You didn't graduate because you didn't graduate. You had a change of plans, possibly wanted to work on a side project, hobby, programming. You quit because your were ambitious about something.

Two: If the interviewer is asking you to do the impossible i.e. move, relocate, have super long traveling distance you say: "I have a short term plan formulated, and working on the long term one. It's an overcomable problem". You're an engineer, you can solve problems.

Three: Impress people with your CV. Write it in LaTeX. Grab some cool template here: https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/cv-or-resume If you list graduate courses in the left CV column, then format the course names as hyperlinks linking course descriptions.

Four: Giving your CV to a future employer, despite it's good-looking, full of links, and with impressive information, it won't do unless you have someone at your past uni which you can name as your reference. That person knows you, and knows the course descriptions, so that when a future employer calls, the information is concise and complements the CV.

Five: Throw yourself in deep waters (figuratively). Problem solvers work best when solving problems is literally part of their strife.
OpenJDK didn't exist in the early days of Android, so it wasn't an option.

Sun/Oracle created OpenJDK, effectively "open sourcing" Java in response to the popularity of clean-room Java reimplementations like GNU Classpath and Apache Harmony.

Why Android did not choose to adopt OpenJDK until now, however, is a mystery known only to Google. Maybe it was just a lot of work, technically speaking, to do so.
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Cost would probably be factor number 300,000 when it comes to the types of missions it's expected to see. Any other kind of mission, and the modern military supply train is orders of magnitude more efficient.
I used to run a FTP server back in the day, I don't see how we the operators or the scene uploaders had any better OPSEC than these guys, we were just too obscure for anyone to care about.

These guys get caught because their releases reach millions of users, while FTP scene servers that have two-digit user numbers are not exactly killing the industry.
I don't see how money helps with the problem of not having time for a second job. You could try to use the money to pay someone else but that still means trying to find trusted maintainers.
The opt-out nature of the open register is a disgrace, IMHO.
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I don't think you deserve a down vote for being factually correct -- though a little hyperbole ain't gonna kill you. :)

But ORCL has gone from being an innovator to a rentier, and they're not averse to using hardball tactics on top of their historical position to try and stay relevant. Not using that HCM suite? Okay, but before you jump to a competitor just know that we'll increase your licensing fees if you stop using any of our products. Oracle is losing ground when it comes to new clients, but they're great at extracting every last drop of revenue from their legacy client base.

Their contracting arm is most notorious for massive boondoggles (USAF's ECSS, scrapped after a billion dollars of sunk costs; Cover Oregon, which ended in recriminations, lawsuits and an FBI criminal investigation), and its software was at the epicenter of the HealthCare.gov catastrophe. Oracle could have owned cloud computing -- hell, they bought the company that reinvented the concept and instead tried to use it to force expensive hardware purchases on their expensive software customers. Now they're a minor player in a field that is steadily expanding to cover their core business sector and they're milking their cash cows furiously in an attempt to extract maximum value from a dying field.

In other words, they're Blockbuster the year after Netflix debuted streaming; their model is faltering and they don't know how to replace it and still stay in business.

No, they're not evil, just a nasty piece of work to do business with, and they're not stupid, but they're slowly dying. I only wish they weren't taking the last remains of Sun with them.
I have a really good CPA in the US. I simply have not been able to locate one in Japan yet, because my requirements are rather esoteric: table stakes is "bilingual; you need to know the difference between on-premises and off-premises software or be able to retain a working model of that difference after having it explained to you once; you must be comfortable working in the intersection of Japanese and American tax law; you need to be comfortable doing business over email and Dropbox; please don't charge me $2k per hour as that will eclipse the profits of the business before my taxes get filed."

I don't know who best fits these criteria in Tokyo yet but would welcome an introduction. I have a strong suspicion that I was the best qualified person in Gifu.

Hence me trudging down to the tax office a few times a year with a notebook, a stack of forms, and a highlighted copy of a National Tax Agency publication with the query "So I've got an odd one for you..."
Assuming the poster is American, he's likely talking about a rental unit (apartment), not an owner-occupied unit (condominium).

If that's the case, what can one do to alleviate noise problems in an apartment? Changing the flooring, or adding drywall, isn't usually feasible.
>Are you unable to recognize that your experiences may not be in line with everyone else's?

Oh I agree, most of the poor had MUCH more money through financial aid and easier circumstances than I.

>Again, you're an edge case. "I had it rough so clearly there isn't an issue with racial minorities getting through college." This is a really close-minded thought process.

No, I had it rougher than most. Though, I'm not an edge case- I'm fairly typical for those of my ethnic and financial demographic: poor single mom, ghetto neighborhood, and crappy adult guidance. Perfectly typical. Furthermore I'm not the only kid from my neighborhood to make it, before I moved I ran into lots of other kids from my junior high. 30% are now in STEM jobs, with 50% in much better socioeconomic condition form which they were born in to. The other 50% I've not run into since. There were some who slipped through the cracks, like one jerkface who's dream in life was to be a gang member, then dropped out and lived his dream until he got shot, and another who decided it was more financially viable to take over his brother's drug dealing post than take a full scholarship to Fordham. There's more but in short you can't save them all from themselves, especially the ones who make it a choice to be a loser. Everyone has options and financial aid does put poor minorities on equal footing with the middle class for higher education. If it were a middle class kid who screwed up their life despite being given these same chances to attend college but squandered it (by dropping our or picking a crummy major) we'd call him/her a "loser" or a "screw-up".

>My first thought would be "Why this guy complaining about how hard he has it and then going to an expensive, over priced school?"

That's a ridiculous notion on your part. Your first thought should have been: "If this poor person from the ghetto made it though the most difficult of all financial scenarios in higher education, what's excuse do poor ethnic minorities (who get more financial aid) have?"

>Nobody is saying you didn't work hard or make good choices. Nobody is saying ethnic minorities can avoid working hard or making good choices. The point is that simply working hard and making good choices is not enough (hence the whole point of this article).

Some are saying that working hard and making good choice don't matter, that is utterly false and wholly insulting to anyone who is self-made from humble roots. If you look at the article do you feel the parent who encouraged their kid to major in Theater was making a good choice? SERIOUSLY? Other than rehearsing the line "do you want fries with that" in preparation for a lifetime of failure, what good would that major do? That is a perfect example of stupid choices with dire consequences. I've seen lots of middle class college students make this kind of mistake as well. "Oh! I'm going to major in Medieval Instrumental Arts!"
Typo in first line suggests need for English grammar scanning algorithm in blog posting software.
These are the patents they are applying for:

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

Some of them seem remarkably frivolous:

>System and Method for Wire Transfers Using Cryptocurrency

>[...] The processor can transfer the first quantity of the cryptocurrency to a second cryptocurrency exchange and initiate the sale of the first quantity of the cryptocurrency at the second cryptocurrency exchange. The processor is further able to initiate the transfer of at least a portion of the resulting currency to a recipient.
I never heard from the military if the heat signature was a problem as well. The article sights noise, but that thing has to stand out on IR goggles or similar monitoring devices.
OpenJDK is under GPLv2. There are no patent grants.
Can't argue with that, I wonder how many people would tick the box if it was opt-in...
What is really cool about this approach is that, unlike the counterpart design patterns you might find in an imperative OO language such as the Interpreter and Command patterns, within the strong-statically-typed functional languages we can rely on the guarantees the type system gives us for abstractions such as the Free Applicative to allow for optimizations that would be merely convention in a less type-enforcing type system.
I've been researching and looking into Elixir & Phoenix a lot lately. What are your thoughts having done this side project? I'm coming from a java, ruby perspective with experience in several other languages.
http://wagonhq.com, which is in beta, is phenomenal
> Google did not produce their own compatible files containing the list of methods, classes, and interfaces

No, that's exactly what Google did.

Google didn't copy any of Oracle's files -- except for 9 lines of code in rangeCheck and a few tests, none of which are central to the case.
I don't think there is a downside (to them) for trying to patent Bitcoin. Worst case, the application is denied. Best case (for them), it's approved. From that perspective, it's not foolish for them to try.
>Some of them seem remarkably frivolous:

As are most patent filings (including some of my own)
Uh, so... how will we know it's not being spoofed?

And uh... how many people will know enough to be mindful on the total lack of encryption?

You know, just like at Starbucks and the like?
Coloring in for adults is actually surfacing as a popular app niche too - https://play.google.com/store/search?q=coloring%20books%20fo...
I'm just going to open that in a new tab and save it for later... d'oh!
Tesla plans to hire thousands more as competition heats up
> Municipal Fiber is a solution looking for a problem.

No the cable monopolies are a real problem.

> The overwhelming trend is toward mobile.

Yes but wired internet is never going away (largely due to physics).
Or Swift.
You could try escaping to an area where they don't have jurisdiction. "Run a red light? Drive to Canada!"
I looks like the password save wiki link moved to http://allthetropes.wikia.com/wiki/Password_Save
Applying the reverse of this is actually really fascinating as well. A friend of mine used to work on "navigation systems for submarines". According to him some submarines measure the pull of gravity to help keep track of their location.
I am curious about this as well.

Taking a look at the source (https://github.com/yhat/rodeo) it appears to be in all python.

I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that native referred to code which compiled to assembly.
I realized the download on Linux is massive, though (600+ Mb) - why is that? R and RStudio combined weigh way less than that.

Plus, for distributing binaries in Linux, instead of a zip file (tar.gz would be more common, too) it's better to support the main distros with a repository (PPA for Ubuntu, pacman for Arch, etc...) since it's way more user friendly every single time you want them to stay up to date.
The Free Wifi in the train stations in Japan has saved my butt on many occasions :)
> I would assume they would Lose due to prior art if it were ever challenged.

Only if challenged within 6 months after the patent application was published: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-Smith_America_Invents_Ac...
Given that you know C# and Java, you should not have a great deal of trouble learning other C-family languages, including Swift.

Objective-C was/is a bit of an exception to this, as it's "funky" syntax could be a bit intimidating to developers coming from other languages - one of the motivations for Apple's switch to Swift was to address this.
> I wish GitHub had a proper UI for deprecating/abandoning projects

Would this be equivalent to implementing the dislike button for Facebook, which we know will be never implement?

I'm currently indexing most of the popular repositories on GitHub (500+ stars) so they can be searched by commits, diffs, etc. and what I've noticed is:

- GitHub hosts a lot and I mean lots of repositories.

- People fork popular repositories like crazy but the vast majority do nothing with their forks.

Would making it easier to deprecate or make it more noticeable that a repo has been abandoned be good for GitHub? Don't get me wrong, GitHub is the current leader for hosting Git repositories and the number of active repositories is still quite significant, but if you dig deeper, you'll find a considerable amount of unused/never touched repos.

From GitHub's point of view, I really don't see any benefits for implementing such a UI, much like it makes no sense for Facebook to implement a dislike button.
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