skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a strange title. The article is about "the oldest known torrent that's still active." Assuming "active" means "being shared" then it's a bit of a tautology, isn't it?
The solution should have been to append a random string to the hotfix number. Still sorts the same way, but unguessable.
What a terrible story. And it's one of thousands of others that never get told. Just... You said it. Heartbreaking.
Windows 10 Privilege Escalation via Dolby's DAX2_API Service
It's for...ahem...a friend.
what does IDM stand for? The genres and artists you've mentioned are what I consider fads or the mainstream trends of electronic music for the past ~15ish years.

There is plenty of interesting things going on in electronic music, depending on your tastes. Trap sort of replaced dubstep as far as accessible popular and mainstream EDM. Deep house seems to be popular these days. Drum n bass is having a weird spate of popularity and soul-searching at the same time. Future bass seems to be a defined genre now.

*none of this post is offered in arrogance, merely stating my honest opinions which are devoid of value judgements.
True, but bear in mind that being "soft on crime" is something no politician wants to be accused of.
I bet quite a few people would be less annoyed about Nest and others if someone made a good alternative.

From what I've seen there is a) fully cloud-enabled stuff, b) cheap china crap with security holes and c) "enterprise" solutions with prices and hardware demands to match. No-one makes something with the features of b), proper security and the price+polish of a).

There is quite a few "IoT" devices I want to like, but they come with (to me) unacceptable limitations.

Just to make it clear, I understand that this has similar development effort and Nest probably couldn't have done both at the same time. I just wish there were a few companies outside of the as-cheapest-as-possible spectrum that made "boring" consumer devices.
This articles has some basic misunderstandings about what artists and DJs use Soundcloud for, and how money is made in the underground music world.

Consumers buy tickets to a DJ's show, DJ pays indie label, label pays artist. So three things should be clear: first, DJs aren't on Soundcloud to get signed to a major label, they are trying to drive ticket sales; second, unknown DJs don't use Soundcloud to promote themselves because ticket buyers must be local.

Finally, amateur artists don't care about developing a following like YouTube stars because their music is sold to DJs, not to listeners. Part of the appeal of a DJ is that you hear great tracks at their events that you never heard before, so they aren't going to want to buy viral Soundcloud hits that the audience has already heard.

In short, the mainstream music economy is driven by MP3 sales/streams directly to listeners. The underground music economy is mostly about event ticket sales, and Soundcloud is valuable to artists if it can drive ticket sales. That's why its current monetization strategy is mostly about telling artists which cities their fans are in. Frankly, if I were Soundcloud, my next step would be to build a ticketing platform.
The best course of action is to ignore trolls.
Since I'm not familiar with the term could you explain it like I'm five?
I think there's a big difference between learning that they exist, and learning that they exist here.

If some alien force with incomprehensible power and an unknown agenda, has been acting at will on Earth for who knows how long, then humans are not the dominant form of intelligent life on Earth, and have possibly never been in charge of their own destiny. What are we, then? Animals in a zoo? Specimens in a lab? Playthings? Food? If a government admits there's nothing they can do about it, they're basically ceding their own sovereignty to this alien power. A state that can't police its own borders or airspace isn't credible. No one would trust it.

This is just assuming one particular scenario happens to be true. If alien contact turned out to be a unique event, then people's reactions might be different. Given how prevalent the topic is in science fiction and popular culture, it could be argued that humanity has been indoctrinated against the possibility. But even then, knowing that's just fiction makes it comfortable.

But the shock of actually learning we're not alone would be an event of such import, we would need to restart the calendar and consider it a new age, year zero Anno Contactum (or whatever). I think humanity would experience the collective form of a fight or flight response - a mortal animal fear at discovering the sudden gaze of a predator in the tall grass.

To paraphase Agent Kay, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
Completely agree - I'm an Android fan, but it is unbelievable that the performance is still such an issue. Even the Nexus 6P drops frames quite regularly, and that's even with it doing much simpler animations than is common on iOS.

You can see this with the Material Design specs as well - the rendered demo videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw ) from the Design team are amazing, but what's actually been implemented on Android is far less sophisticated and even then they frequently skip frames. Interestingly, many of the Google apps are much closer to the Design specs and perform better on iOS and even on the web, at least in Chrome.

Hopefully this will finally be resolved with the Chrome OS merge (Chrome OS has great performance) - It must be extremely frustrating for the Google Design teams when they can't implement their designs properly on their own platform.
A visual analysis of every touchdown of NFL 2015
If you haven't already, check out http://12factor.net/config for their recommended best practice for dynamic configuration between environments through the use of environment variables.
Sort of.

Here's a overlay of the favelas of Rio.[1]

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zuw5NU9HNh_k.krdIMl...
What networking technology does Chrome OS need? It's entirely possible to write great offline apps for it, they are just built using web technologies so you can use the same code online and offline.
Yeah, just saying, "sorry, Officer," obviously solved the problem for Aaron Swartz.
So everyone gets to look forward to average yearly pay of $1480 or equivalent while the world equalizes... granted it'll go up a bit while the US one goes down ... let's be kind and say it'll be $2000 (ie. about 3000% inflation in the US discounting payrises).

And these are PPP dollars. So while they'll probably buy more in terms of food, house prices, ipad prices, ... will stay the same (granted, some bubbles will probably get popped, but a house costing $200-300k should not change).

Decent clothing ? T-shirts and jeans, and washing them once a month, tops, perhaps.

I for one strongly doubt that the middle class will accept this. War, civil war or the other kind, seems far more likely.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

PPP dollars : one takes the income of someone, follows them as they buy food, housing, .... Then you look up the prices of the same items in the US and that's the resulting figure.
Robberies happen but we don't stop trying to put criminals away or give up and make it legal to rob people.
During a summer break jaunt to see the American Flag Art Exhibit in 1996 (found it! http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/08/us/art-or-trash-arizona-ex...), I was coming back down the 10 just past Wiley's Rest Stop, in California and pulled off the road into the desert about 500 yards from the highway. It was me with my best friend (from kindergarten) and 2 sisters we were mutually involved with. No drugs, no alcohol, no cell phones, and some remaining film in a disposable did nothing in a pitch black night. Playing truth or dare around a makeshift fire, one sister saw 3 lights moving toward us. It took awhile to wrap our heads around what it was, till it was blocking out stars. I have been on aircraft carriers and cruise ships prior. This thing blocked out a lot of the sky, as it passed silently overhead. It was either equivalent (but larger in surface area) to an aircraft carrier or larger than a couple city blocks if it was higher (impossible to tell how high it was in the pitch black desert). We killed the fire pretty quick, but it just passed silently overhead without further incident. It flew on toward the southeast over a the mountains in the distance. Unlike a lot of other videos and reports, there was no center light (red or otherwise).
It's a quotation, taken out of context, without any additional side channel information. Might be a good idea to not form a strong opinion of a very smart man from this.
I suppose by definition, if someone finds a story interesting, that makes them a "good hacker."
I see quite a lot of friends of friends and other unknown artists promoting their work on Soundcloud, using it as somewhere to host the music. I don't use Soundcloud a lot, but I got the impression that was one of its main uses.
Reticulating splines...

I've also done this in some programs I wrote as a teenager to solve math / physics homework to make it seem like it was doing more than it was.
Exactly whilst the chaotic bazaar is still available when you're in the mood for JS fatigue.
I had to do this for a program I wrote for a study - basically it pretended to be a networked game with other users, which meant I created fake "Loading" screens that had a random-ish delay.
Justifying the move as a step to keep America safe is the right move in this political context. America is generally fearful right now, so Obama's political adversaries will attack this move as eroding the safety the prison system attempts to maintain.

"My job is to keep Americans safe" is an acceptable justification for limiting solitary confinement. It would not be an acceptable justification for extrajudicial killings.
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Most people don't think Prohibition was bad because it's a bad idea to outlaw a substance. They think it was bad because they don't think alcohol should be illegal. Similarly, while a majority of people now support legalization of marijuana, an overwhelming majority of people still support keeping cocaine and heroin illegal.
WW3+US+MIGRANTS+2+B+PLACED+IN?C+LIST+MILLION+-+YouTube
"I tend to prefer libraries over frameworks...they don't box me into patterns I don't want or need"

You're confident that you're able to identify what you want and need, and how to get there.

You don't need help or strong direction.

In contrast, I worry about making the naive choice, and I trust that others have thought about this a lot more than me. So I tend towards things that have built-in best practices/assumptions/guidelines, i.e. "box me in".
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Bush Sr. used this to defeat Michael Dukakis in 1988, after an inmate committed a crime while on a furlough program Dukakis said could help rehabilitation.

Republicans eagerly picked up the Horton issue after Dukakis clinched the nomination. In June 1988, Republican candidate George H.W. Bush seized on the Horton case, bringing it up repeatedly in campaign speeches. Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, said "By the time we're finished, they're going to wonder whether Willie Horton is Dukakis' running mate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton#Horton_in_the_19...
The canonical solution that the Wiki suggests (which seems like a fairly good idea to me) is to make your "serial" number an encryption of the actual serial number; that way your tooling can still get the real ordering, but customers will find it computationally hard to get that information.
That doesn't help anything. You can't guess the next hotfix number, but you can still tell what order they were in and, after seeing a few examples to figure out how long the non-random part is, tell how many were skipped.
Microsoft has suffered a heck of a brain drain in the past decade. I don't believe they can recover from it in the long term. I also don't believe in innovation by executive edict. Google and FB models work because executive edicts are not necessary there: top researchers and engineers run the whole show.
All things considered, this actually came on pretty quickly. Even in San Francisco, Uber and other ride sharing services have only been main-stream since, what, 2011? And threateningly so for less time than that.

Doesn't this say something about yellow cab's business model?
But I have asked myself, as have others, and came to conclusions that I've shared and that you've never addressed. You're quite adept at providing non-answers, and I do believe you when you say you feel misunderstood. I've read more of your comments and your submissions, and feel that I understand you even more than you're willing to give credit for.

And there's the rub: you have been unable to give that credit. You've been given insights, raw honesty, carefully considered and thoughtful replies, and to each you've carefully and artfully worded a response that almost seems to show the same considered sympathetic thoughtfulness you are seeking from others.

I don't know if it was a particular incident or if the particular way you perceive the world and how it perceives you is due to literal differences in your wiring, but I fear that you will find yourself butting up against the same walls every time you choose to engage in this dialog. It's not because I or the others responding are being recalcitrant, it's because you do not seem to be able to participate in that step beyond turn-taking: perspective-taking.

I don't mean any disrespect, and if you care to read my past comments you will learn that I am sincere when I share the perception I have about you. I feel, for others reading, the need to disclaim more overtly that I do not share this perception in any derogatory way, and it comes from a place of understanding. My perception is that your difficulty with placing yourself in the mind of others, or your challenges with understanding why on earth people don't think the same thing you do... Well, both are very much the kinds of issues that those, like my son, on the autism spectrum have. I'd very much like to chat with you. Drop me a line at my username at gmail dot com if you feel there is something to what I've said.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_convers...

Page 3, point 4:

"Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomenon or known types of aerial vehicles."

Also note the National Security Council directive on the last page.
After frustratedly fixing an unsolvable Rubik's cube over Christmas break (my dad thought it'd be funny to "solve" it by peeling off the labels and putting them back on, but got tired halfway through and left it in an unsolvable configuration), I'd love to see what their robot does if you give it an unsolvable cube.
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I would probably guess that he believed in an eventual theory of general intelligence/consciousness, but probably not that it will be easy/succinct/simple. For example, Neural Networks have made extreme breakthroughs in sensory perception and classification, partly through modeling how humans perceive and classify. But do those theories extend over to other areas of intelligence like Planning? Creative capabilities? Emotion? Empathy? Especially if we know that there are other players (such as hormones, genetics, epigenetics, culture, etc.) beyond Neurons in those areas? The fact of the matter is that there are countless factors in how intelligence develops, let alone influence the development of all of the auxiliary functions for intelligence (such as memory, reflexes, sensory, etc.).

EDIT: You can get a little intro to his thoughts on the matter starting about 27:16 in this video [1] (linked at the time marker). If you watch for about 10 minutes, he demonstrates some of the difficulties of using single abstractions for something as complex as human intelligence.

[1] https://youtu.be/-pb3z2w9gDg?t=1636
In general, I like the idea of aggregating the discussion. I will miss how the front page would fill with links about someone who passed away.
The lectures are great but not content-heavy. Professor Minsky goes on tangents, rants, and takes questions most of the time but it's all entertaining and somewhat informative. I suggest reading The Emotion Machine book for more of the theory.
Software is (mostly) about function. Fashion isn't.

When something functions on massive scale, it's commendable, and worth looking at.
Strategy tax is where an individual product is constrained in some way to further the overall goals of the company. For example, Microsoft killed a project to port SQL Server to Linux because the product would help to strengthen Linux as a competitor to Windows.

The term has been used inside Microsoft since the 1990s (and maybe before that time).
To each their own. I'll take the chaotic, decentralised bazaar over the monolithic cathedral. I've been burned by all in or bust platforms before.
Your humour is wasted here.
The reason I'm unable to find that anecdote is because the search term "Area 51", combined with any other search terms, brings up an enormous a flood of incoherent crackpot ramblings

You might have more luck if you google "Groom Lake Air Force Base".
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Basically if you consider the delta between what you would do if you only had to care about your product and its customers, and what you have to do to align with some broader strategy - sell Windows, drive search eyeballs, get more clicks, etc. -- that's the Strategy Tax. It can be used for good but usually means you end up with Windows Phone hobbled with no Mac client, etc.
Yeah that ended up being way longer and more serious than I intended. I unfortunately can't edit or delete it now so there it is.

I know the parent comment was a joke, but the idea is serious. I've seen a lot of people have really weird ideas about copyright and illegal numbers.
Forcing the name of a person or place to be Hawaiianized
Belsen and Bataan beat anything ISIS has done.
> Underlying our approach to this subject is our conviction that "computer science" is not a science and that its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology ­ the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects. Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "what is." Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "how to."

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Why%20programming%20...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/front/node3.html

From SICP preface, which is the quote that actually matters, this is inspired by Minsky's quote. I hate that the quote that went public were all the other less inspired quotes from SICP.
I'm not from Denmark, but not very far from it. Don't you get civil disorder every time a high profile, widely hated criminal gets off with a sentence that's much lighter than people get in the movies? Where I live, every time that happens, populist and right wing parties rise in the polls. At this time, they're maybe one incident involving a Syrian refugee away from winning the elections. It's inevitable, with so many thousands of them, there's bound to be one who crosses the line at some point.

The US has a different kind of democratic tradition. Some will say they're more democratic, but I think it has a lot to do with the "winner takes all" principle vs. "proportional representation". Deep down inside, it's what a significant chunk of the population wants: "as long as there are still people whom I can't identify with out there breaking the rules, we're still not tough enough on crime". The largest group is the one that gets represented, and doesn't have to share power.
Amazing.
If possible, can you please share a picture of the autographs?
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It seems as though the cause of death in his case might present something of an obstacle to whatever is supposed to happen after the cryonics step.
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My father had a book by Minsky which I swiped from his bookshelf and read cover to cover. I can't for the life of me remember the title but looking over his bibliography I think it was this one. This book, if indeed it was this one, had a big impact on my younger self, though I'm ashamed of two things now: 1) I can't remember exactly what it was about it that affected me so, and 2) I don't know where the book is! I do remember the chapters about McCulloch-Pitts artificial neurons and Turing machines and the halting problem. I'd dearly love to find a copy of that book to see if my older self recognises what my younger self saw in it.
Pretty good analysis of MSFT, Google and Facebook. In the 1990s Bill Gates shared his visions in 1990 and 1994 at COMDEX (information at your fingertips and "Cairo"). In the 2000s Longhorn, WinFS (failed because dotNet was too slow) and the great work of Microsoft Labs like Photosynth. MSFT was on its peak with Office 2010 and Win7. Though then they closed their Labs department. And Satya Nadella only tries to milks the custumer with SaaS versions of their former on-premises software, expensive license model changes and hostile privacy intrusive spying stuff on end consumer. MSFT is such a mean company.
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Yes but it's the information that they contain that's illegal, not the bits themselves. You could xor them all and they would still be illegal to distribute. Likewise no one would care if you spread them but didn't give any context to what their use was.

Anyway those examples are trade secrets and other legal issues, they weren't copyrighted.
Read Ian Murdock's last tweets.
dangrossman, creator of improvely.
“The Ultimate machine” was invented by Marvin Minsky
One amazon review for The Society of Mind says "The book has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It has everything to do with speculation. And since no one has builty the society of mind from this blueprint in over 15 years, what does that tell us about the usefulness of the idea??"
A"Marvin Minsky" replied:
"It tells us that most AI researchers are still looking for oversimplistic
solutions to problems. This reviewer does not understand that new ideas
often take 2 decades to spread, because most practitioners in most fields don't
oftenmake changes in their careers. The ideas in my 1961 "Steps toward
Artificial Intelligence" became general practice aroun 1980, and those
in "The Society of Mind," are only now (2007) becoming widely adopted."