skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I was concerned that there would be so much humidity inside of the capsule from the condensation caused by the temperature difference between the outside and the inside, but I see they've addressed that by replacing the atmosphere with Nitrogen.

I wonder if they've considered an inert fluid to immerse the computers in? If you can use something like Fluorinert, or even high-grade mineral oil, you might be able to make the vessel not required to withstand crush forces as high since the fluid in the capsule can be at the same pressures.

I do love this idea because they can start putting data centers along of submarine cables. One in the middle of the Atlantic, between London and NYC would be great for HFT traders.

I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA wouldn't love something like this too. A whole data center on cross-oceanic cables would provide a lot of infrastructure they can use to analyze traffic in real-time.
I had totally forgotten that the movie and book were different. You're remembering the movie correctly and I was remembering the book (which I read several times before the movie came out).
The problem there is that x86 is well-documented too. Painfully so in a lot of cases. Overly so in some. You can get, with a few clicks, the documentation, including pinouts, register settings, etc for any processor Intel has, the chipset, peripheral controllers, pretty much everything. The biggest thing you can't get documentation for is the $10 thunderbolt controller some boards have, for asinine reasons. The problem more is the companies that make the boards farm out the coding to the lowest common denominator, so all that gory documentation goes to waste all too often. RISC-V isn't going to save us from crappy motherboards, unfortunately.
Not enough reserve

"by 2018 all of China's excess reserves — cash that it has on hand to use immediately — could be gone."

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-fx-reserves-less-than-...
Funny enough, post-war Germany traditionally ran a trade surplus and a very strong currency.
Core API – Hypermedia Driven Web APIs
loomio & cobudget
Not every hard-to-work-with person is "on the spectrum". Sometimes a jerk is just a jerk.
Just wait until the FDA get ahold of them.
It's obviously not $6 trillion in cash...
I love what kibana gives us in terms of search and visualizations, but have found es and kibana to be quite fiddly and needy with respect to devops attention.
The world's oceans contain 1,335,000,000 km^3 of water. Heat capacity is 4.2 KJ / liter / C. So it requires 5.6e24 joules to heat the oceans by 1 C.

The world generates 20,000 TWh of electricity per year, and maybe 10% is for IT. That's 7.2e18 joules of electricity / year in IT.

So it would take 780,000 years to heat by 1 C. Or 780 years to heat by 0.001 C.

Other sources of global warming are far, far worse.
I don't know why they used that in the README, but "go get" has this approach to fetch dependencies like that:

go get -u github.com/google/seesaw/...
You could add offline messages but they'd have to be account-directed (as in nickserv account) rather than nick-directed.
Do you run your own loomio or use the hosted service?
Git

Eclipse

Vagrant

Bash

Pmwiki

Ubuntu

Nginx

Apache

MySQL

Maven

Puppet
"A whole data center on cross-oceanic cables would provide a lot of infrastructure they can use to analyze traffic in real-time."
And plenty of room for submarine cat-and-mouse. Guess it'd have to be inside US waters.
> everything is going need watercooling which is rather expensive

Why would everything need water cooling? I'd expect that something using water would be used to keep the air inside the unit cool, and then the cooling for the servers themselves would be ordinary air cooling.
Why does it matter at all what country the developer is from?
It's not about the word itself. It's that people here can express their opinions in better ways typically. Every service has bugs. This is one of theirs. Whatever software project you create will have bugs. That's the world we live in.

"fucked up" blames the developers - did you really intend to say they fucked up, by providing a non-critical service that's very usable almost all the time and has cache coherency issues occasionally. Missing chat history is not a serious technical deficiency if it can be simply re-requested. If you really wanted to rant at them and say their service is fucked up, then downvotes are deserved.
Which markets in the world, besides the US, have a stable enough economy for China to rely on their consumption?

Europe still has significant headwinds, Canada and the middle east...that's pretty obvious with $30/barrel oil prices, Russia of course not doing terribly great, capital flooding back to the US from Central and South America due to interest rates rising.

Keep in mind, a lot of manufacturing is moving back to the US from China with automation being cheeper than (quickly rising) Chinese labor rates [1] [2] [3].

If China cannot stoke internal demand quickly enough (and I assure you, it cannot), it's going to slide into a deep recession. On the bright side, this is going to help cool off London, Toronto, Vancouver, SF/LA, Miami, and central Texas property markets (where a lot of Chinese money was flowing into).

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-flips-the-script-on-jobs...

[2] http://news.yahoo.com/manufacturing-moving-china-us-survey-0...

[3] http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21569570-growin...
I wasn't familiar with that document, but I read IV-C-2-b as authorizing this activity:

"University employees who operate and support electronic communications resources regularly monitor transmissions for the purpose of ensuring reliability and security of University electronic communications resources and services (see Section V.B, Security Practices), and in that process might observe certain transactional information or the contents of electronic communications."

This is followed by standard restrictions (only for valid purposes, controls to protect information, etc). They provide a stronger assurance of privacy than I would expect, but still leave plenty of latitude for this activity.

Edit: copied and pasted from a PDF. never again.....

Further edit: V-B is really interesting and requires user permission "it is necessary to examine suspect electronic communications records beyond routine practices." This is kind of a strange rule, but particularly since they're using a third-party vendor, all of this would easily fall under routine.

It's important to note that this policy primarily discusses "disclosure," which I can't see this being considered. It does go to a third party, but one contracted for internal purposes.
Ask HN: Using plaintext argument maps to improve critical thinking?
Hi HN,

A year ago I came across the concept of argument maps and was intrigued by a meta-study showing that college students who used argument maps as part of philosophy courses improved scores on critical thinking tests by roughly one standard deviation over the course of a semester. Most representations of them I've found online have a big tree structure that takes up lots of space, but I realized I could use them in an indented bulleted list since that's also a tree structure. For example:

Plaintext argument maps are superior to just bullet points

- Support: prefixing each bullet's content with "support" or "oppose"
lets you easily see the logical relationships between concepts
- Support: since this just uses plaintext, it works anywhere you can
type
- Support: if you have to use "support" or "oppose" for each bulleted
item, then you naturally don't bother listing things that aren't
relevant, because they won't support or oppose
- Support: and if you're sure that something's relevant, but it both
supports and opposes, then clearly you need to either start with a
more fundamental assertion or break down the mixed support/oppose
item into separate concepts
- Oppose: writing "support" and "oppose" for everything requires more
writing
- Oppose: you can abbreviate them as "S" and "O" if you're not
illustrating the concept
- Support: This is kind of hard to read... single capital letters
at the start of lines stand out more from the prose
- Oppose: if I want to share my notes with people and I use this goofy
notation, I'll have to explain it to them and I'll feel like a huge
dork
- Support: this is accurate, it's pretty embarrassing

Anyway, I figured I'd share it if it might be useful to anyone else. I'm also curious if anyone else is doing a similar thing or has related ideas.
Depends on your definition of crime. From a legal sense, you are correct but from a moral human sense, the original poster is correct. A crime that hurts no one is not a crime.
It's interesting to contrast this with Apple's solution to the same problem: El Capitan's rootless.

As of OSX10.11, the live, everyday-use OS doesn't have write access to EFI variables. Instead, to fiddle with EFI vars (which happen to include the OS's kernel-module code-signing grant store, which is how people most often run into rootless) you have to reboot into the recovery partition.

In other words, instead of creating a custom BIOS setup as a special UEFI app with privileges that the OS never has, Apple has instead given OSX the equivalent of SysV runlevels—and then made EFI only writable in the single-user maintenance runlevel. Instead of transitioning between these runlevel-equivalents "online", you reboot between them; and instead of being modes of the same OS image, they're two distinct copies of the same OS. But the usage semantics are the same.

(The key to security here, if you're wondering, is that the recovery OS is a single solid image that's been code-signed as a whole, with the signer's pubkey kept in another EFI var. The live OS can't just be made to overwrite the recovery OS into something malicious, even though the live OS has full control of the disk it sits on and is responsible for replacing the recovery OS when it receives updates.)

Personally, I think something similar might be the best solution for Linux as well. People are suggesting something like a wrapper program, but a wrapper can still be used maliciously. It's far easier to secure a "maintenance mode" of the OS that must be rebooted into, and doesn't bring up the network; such a mode necessitates (remote virtual) console access to actually do what you want, rather than allowing you to simply trigger off a destructive EFI op over SSH.

This can still be automated; your automation just needs to be able to speak to the remote console. And tools like grub-install can still work; they just need one program on the live-image side and one on the recovery-mode side, where the live OS's grub-install just records your desired changes, sets the recovery-mode flag, and reboots; and where the recovery-mode grub-install agent reads the file, actually performs the op, unsets the flag, and reboots back.
Liberty Reserve's main line of business was operating a shared ledger trusted by multiple companies which would exchange cash for ledger entries and ledger entries for cash, earning a fee each time. Think like Western Union except minus all the pesky regulated bits.

LR was a direct reaction to what had befallen e-gold, which was in fundamentally the same business except it did all of the cashing first-party (early in life, at any rate). e-gold was shut down for being a money laundering operation, principally because it was a money laundering operation.

LR was also a money laundering operation. It observed various issues e-gold had had, such as being physically located in the US (though theoretically registered in a country friendly to money laundering), and intentionally fixed these bugs with the intent of being the most robust money laundering operation it could be.

This ended up not working out, which is why the vacuum that urgently desires a money laundering operation has replicated the same hub-and-spokes model with the hub being a cryptocurrency (presently Bitcoin) and the spokes being exchanges and LocalBitcoins sellers. The onramps/offramps to Bitcoin are exposed to a variety of ways to curtail their operations but the central trusted DB required for them to cooperate is not controlled by anyone who can be conveniently extradited. People in the Bitcoin community refer to this obliquely as either "censorship resistance" or "resistance to policy attacks."

If you're interested in the history of this, Paypal and e-gold were approximately contemporaries, and one of the reasons Paypal succeeded and e-gold did not was that Paypal conspicuously courted respectability, so that even if Paypal was also doing hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud and illicit transactions it would be unlikely to indict them as a criminal enterprise because they were a proper company whose lawyers wore suits and whose VCs were quite respectable. Bitcoin collectively cottoned onto the wisdom of having its fronts benefit from the same factor as opposed to being, well, insufficiently socially insulated from legal process. (I can accurately summarize who makes Bitcoin exchanges but it would read like a parody.)
Just really curious? What is up with ML on HN today? So many posts about ML in a single day.

After reading this article I have to say even humans have hard time actually understand images and patterns like the one shown in the article, let alone a machine. I wonder what would a machine say about the famous "is this dress blue or grey" photo last year.
> but there's no other alternative if reliability and idiot-proofing matters.

But that is my whole point - there is. We can need market pressure that it is unacceptable to sell computer hardware whose controlling software's source is undisclosed.

There is no solution for this user, but settling for broken implementations and broken libraries is the stuff of the Windows world where everyone behaves like a baby who refuses to share their toys.

This isn't Facebook or any consumer proprietary product where the software is the product. This is hardware controlling firmware that is never pretty or sexy and whose implementation is not a trade secret or the difference between selling units.
What is Spark? Google turns up a bunch of projects called that.
I found this today and I really like (1) how the document layer is decoupled from the encoding layer, and how it specifies discoverability (HATEOAS?).

Here is an example of a server application using Django REST Framework and the coreapi Python lib: https://github.com/core-api/heroku-game
Lots of Node & NPM. Also Grunt, Brew, Ant, Maven. Not to mention the rest of the stacks.
Look, I'm not trying to say that we have to turn into a police state. Far from it. But it's within reason to increase security at a major symbolic event with thousands of people.
>> For all intents and purposes we have lost the 1800s technology of community barn raising. At least we as defined as HN participants.

I am pretty sure 'we' havent (in the sense 'we' = sum of HN member knowledge).

HN includes some pretty amazing members:
http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill

I don't have links handy, but HN includes people who homestead, and practice many mostly-lost arts.
What would happen if you generated a lot of images like this, tagged them as "conv-net filter", and then added them to the set of images that the neural nets trained on?

Would the network learn more discriminating filters for everything else?
More often than not the only victims are victims because of the government actions. Violence triggered purely by its prohibitions or previous actions.
Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence research
Southern Highlands.

The projects are easy enough to come by - freelancing means a disproportionate amount of my time ends up on boilerplate tasks that are both important to clients and difficult to charge for.

On-site meetings, catchups, what-if conversations can fill up a good chunk of the week. As the 'do-er' in my previous roles, I find this part of freelancing exhausting.
Also, I can highly recommend the book Common Lisp Recipes by Edi Weitz. I literally laughed out loud in Section 9.7 "Recursive Processing of FORMAT controls". The idea of combining FORMATTER, user-defined FORMAT controls, and recursive formats makes me want to create a new language with only the FORMAT command. It could rival APL for being write-only.
With no convective medium, the primary cooling mechanism in space is radiation, making it no so easy to keep computers cool.
This link and the previous posting at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10977520 appear to be part of a sockpuppet campaign. The poster (who submitted the link both times) and two of the uncritical respondents are all new accounts.

The only other comment is from me. I repeat and slightly update my earlier comment here:

This link is of little value. Why should anyone believe that Big Data could never be used to help prevent terrorist attacks?

Rather, lots of things can help us to prevent terrorist attacks. Depending on who you talk to this may include: hire more police officers, accept more refugees from Syria, record and analyze everyone's conversations and movement, stop bombing civilian populations, expel all Muslims, and withdraw US forces and other support from the Middle East.

As this article specifically supports Israeli methods to "track down enemies of the Israeli state", I'll add that I support Sweden's position and its recognition of the Palestinian state.

In that context, note also the statement "[suppose] a large percentage of people from Country X have performed some form of terrorist attacks in last years." Who do you think that "Country X" is supposed to be? To elaborate, I think there's a clear implication that the author of this scenario believes that a large percentage of the people in Palestine have recently performed terrorist acts.

Bear in mind that the US estimates there are no more than 200,000 terrorists in the world. (Says https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140506/14033627137/how-m... .) From the US perspective there are no countries where 'a large percentage of people ... have performed some form of terrorist attacks in last years', making the scenario pointless. For the US, the problem is in how to deal with a very small number of terrorists.

Though I suppose this piece could be targeted to xenophobic Americans who see jihadist boogeymen in every corner. Which is another worldview I don't want to support on HN.
I assume they are talking about Apache Spark http://spark.apache.org/
From the policy:

IV - A - "The University does not examine or disclose electronic communications records without the holder’s consent."

IV - B - "The University shall permit the examination or disclosure of electronic communications records without the consent of the holder of such records only: (i) when required by and consistent with law; (ii) when there is substantiated reason (as defined in Appendix A, Definitions) to believe that violations of law or of University policies listed in Appendix C, Policies Relating to Access Without Consent, have taken place; (iii) when there are compelling circumstances as defined in Appendix A, Definitions; or (iv) under time-dependent, critical operational circumstances as defined in Appendix A, Definitions."

IV - B1c - "In addition, California law requires state agencies and the California State University to enable users to terminate an electronic communications transaction without leaving personal data (see Appendix B, References). All electronic communications systems and services in which the University is a partner with a state agency or the California State University must conform to this requirement.

In no case shall electronic communications that contain personally identifiable information about individuals, including data collected by the use of "cookies" or otherwise automatically gathered, be sold or distributed to third parties without the explicit permission of the individual. "

IV - C2b - "In the process of such monitoring, any unavoidable examination of electronic communications (including transactional information) shall be limited to the least invasive degree of inspection required to perform such duties. This exception does not exempt systems personnel from the prohibition (see Section IV.A, Introduction) against disclosure of personal or confidential information.

Except as provided above, systems personnel shall not intentionally search the contents of electronic communications or transactional information for violations of law or policy."
Thanks. Ady here, I wrote that post. There have been surprisingly few successful dev boards with ESP8266 modules. I'd love to see something with smaller modules like ESP-09 and ESP-03. Most of them are using ESP12 variants there days due to the large GPIO count. But sometimes all we need is a single GPIO with all the ESP8266 goodness! I'l love to see one of these in the Digispark form factor. The closes one I've seen is the WeMos D1 mini.
How to convert video to Apple TV
International treaties have established that Antarctica is exclusively for science, and not for private use.
The existing security has worked fine. There's already police with guns and security all over a sporting event.

In real-politik, the existing systems are apparently sufficient.
No. "Crime" is a legal concept. A crime at law is something for which the state is authorized to punish you. If you do something the law says is punishable by the state, irrespective of if you harmed anyone, you have committed a crime. If you plot to rob a bank, even if you do not go through with it and no one is harmed by your deeds, you can be convicted of conspiracy and jailed.
Everyone deserves privacy and it must be defended, and if I have my computer data at home, the government should not be able to search it without a warrant.

But when I send that data over public networks unencrypted, I willingly give up that privacy.

Pretending like the transmitted data was safe in the first place, before they set up these servers - is a lie, and only plays into the hands of those who would snoop on you.
I have no idea what I just saw. Can someone care to explain what this is, and why this is cool?
On the topic of the Schuko plug, I never really understood why there had to be that many variations of it. Being from Denmark, I have more often than not had problems with the ground pin obstructing me from using a Danish plug in other countries. It has often times lead me to either saw off the ground pin, or replace the plug with a two-pin connector without the ground pin - in both cases decreasing the security of the plug for accessibility.