skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps your biggest concern is 'Reputation Risk' - will clients not want to work with you, because the jurisdiction of your corporation looks strange or suspicious. That could mean terrorism or tax evasion.

One option I have researched for me, but IANAL etc and have not yet taken professional advice and executed this plan so there may be flaws I'm missing:

1) Establish a company in Hong Kong. This may require a trip, and several thousand dollars. But HK has minimal reputation risk, good international banking, and experience with remote owners.

2) Establish tax residency in Panama or similar. Again, experience with expats, and apparently a beautiful country.

It sounds like you're not looking to change Residency, just establish a Company. In that case, I would suggest researching Hong Kong. Be sure to research banking as well as tax and corporations law (google Streber for a good website), as some countries may make it easy to incorporate but difficult to bank. Good luck!
I think he's had that HN redirect for years. He is blocking hotlinking directly to files.

Try https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
Post-mortem: Ms. Pac-Man, Diablo dissected by their original devs
Looks aside, NASA’s Orion is “lightyears ahead of what they had in Apollo”
In civilized world we used SCART or JP-21 to achieve pure RGB and avoid most of the artefacts author is so nostalgic about.

http://retrorgb.com/rgbguide.html

so no, our consoles didnt look like http://i.imgur.com/Pq2Yra4.png, they did indeed look pixel perfect http://retrorgb.com/images/Link%20RGB%20Compare.jpg
Our condo has an entryphone working over normal phone line. I really wanted for a very long time a simple system which can a) authenticate via HTTPS b) after auth, for a few minutes if someone (like me) rings the phone it would answer the phone c) dials 6 to let me in. There is no dialtone or such involved.

Most solutions I were able to find are ridiculously expensive compared to how simple this ought to be. Now we have an adequately cheap computer ... is there a modem you can drive from the GPIO? Or is that crazy.
You mean profit, right? If it costs them 500M to make 100M, that still wouldn't earn back what they paid (obviously as the parent said, there is more to the deal than just future revenue/profit produced).
Just want to mention RootStalk here, make bitcoin on par with ethereum in regards to smart contract.
At this time, what can Rust accomplish with the borrow checker that C++ can't accomplish with move semantics?
> I'm saying that calls for nuance are often excuses to do bad statistics and bad science.

Absolutely. But at least as often, calls for nuance are calls for better statistics and better science. How do you know which is which? Judgement. You can only say "fuck nuance" once you've demonstrated good judgment.
It is amazing to me how many industries have similar problems that can be simply abstracted and applied to a larger scope.

We have profiling, they have "business variable monitoring." I love how the same program solves both problems, just needs a repackage.
If someone needs a tool to do their job, and they are supplied with a bad tool, there is a high chance they will use their own tool instead. If this goes poorly, both parties are to blame.

Therefore if it is your job to keep communications secure, it is not enough to supply users with a secure system, it is also your job to supply them with a usable system.
People treat inconvenience as damage and route around it.

Ever see a password written on a sticky note & stuck to a monitor?

The inconvenience of having to work to a certain level of security is highly awkward - so people reduce security in whatever way they can.
From 2014. Started reading and recognized it.
I understand wanting to keep the police out of your private things. But we already let them in when they have a warrant. Are you saying DNA is more private than your house, computer, phone converations, etc? Or that all those things should be off limits to police with a warrant?

Of course this is not the same as giving them free access to whatever they want. Then I could understand people's worries. Individual policemen could use it to harass people they don't like, or other abuses.
Looks like this is possible now on the Pi Zero (with some kernel tweaks):

https://learn.adafruit.com/turning-your-raspberry-pi-zero-in...
It's also a symptom that people in power are usually older generations and that we only start to see coming a generation of people who even use computers and emails. I guess previous Secretary of States must have used pen and paper.

It's not exactly a vote of confidence that smartphones are so unsecure that the intelligence services will not even allow them within the walls of a secure building. Shouldn't that be the first problem on the list here?
Corporate handling bitcoin... Interesting.
1) Will enterprises eventually shift to a DCOS?

2) Is it even worth it or necessary as afaik, even the biggest of enterprises' infrastructure needs are considerably less than those of internet companies?
Ethereum could quickly outdate itself by defining a fixed language. How will the language adapt? Very slowly by consensus if Ethereum hopes to become a large market player.

Bitcoin could be easily made Turing complete. If each transaction can store 80 bytes of information, then one could use 48 bytes to store code and the remaining 32 bytes to refer to another transaction storing the next block of code and thus chain together code. Unless I am missing something, a new currency is simply unnecessary, and will always be at a second-mover disadvantage.

Soon, I am sure a prototype of what I described will be released on bitcoin thus obscuring Ethereum. A solid use-case for distributed computing would be distributed HTTP delivery. If ethereum could offer a product for decentralized web-hosting, then I would buy into their product, but until then the whole situation is just vaporware to me.
Persistent RNNs
I wish I didn't have to use it. Bridging the Linux VM means it escapes from the Mac-level VPN which I need to get actual work done. I'd have to tunnel in from both systems and would probably set off some alarms for being in two places at once. Ugh.

And yeah, as mentioned elsewhere, bridging onto a wireless situation is even worse.
To reiterate harryh's point, the sitting US secretary of state couldn't get a working email solution out of the nsa or state dept internal IT. Simply amazing.

And where did everyone who fucking emailed her the entire duration of her employment think emails addressed to HDR22@clintonemail.com were going, exactly?
The FBI (very briefly) responded at http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbi-is-trying-to-crack-the-s....
It's IPv6, they could just route it.
Rust's moves are implicit, making it easier to write code that doesn't copy heap allocated memory, and you can't get 'use after moves' like in C++ - the type system will pick that up.
Did you not read the article? Some guy was questioned by police for a brutal crime that is only connected to him by the fact that his father's DNA, submitted to a third party and legally fished by police, didn't match DNA recovered from the victim - but was close enough to possibly be a relative. You are a fool if you think that the police only lock up the guilty. I doubt many parents would want to expose their children to the possibility.
No, that's a yield sign.
They make solid wood furniture as well. Much more expensive, but still way cheaper than many others.
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Just curious: what's the os and email server used in this "basement server"?
Buzzfeed has really improved its content lately. If not for the tacky social media badges, I wouldn't have guessed it was BF.
No. People don't just miss stop signs. If you're missing stop signs slow way the hell down and pay attention.
That's 1000% correct. As someone who came from industry (Google) back to academia 3 years ago, and who has been involved in faculty hiring for the past 2 years, the odds are totally against traditional industry applicants unless they've been in a publication-oriented lab such as MSR for computer science (or unless they've won some really notable international award).

[Edit: also, the longer it's been since your Ph.D., the higher the bar implicitly is for you. so if you haven't published much since finishing your Ph.D., with each year you wait, there will be a new crop of fresh Ph.D. graduates who look more competitive on the market.]
Easiest way to add existing project or files into repository
>The Justice Department and FBI insist the encryption debate is critical to national security, and they’re right. The problem is that—amid another terror attack in the West—they continue to supply more reasons to doubt their credibility and even basic competence.

Which way is this about to go? Does this justify more funding and more legal power?

>Instead, Justice rushed to legal war with dubious theories. As it escalated its rhetoric, it even threatened to confiscate Apple’s source code and electronic signature: “The government did not seek to compel Apple to turn those over because it believed such a request would be less palatable to Apple. If Apple would prefer that course, however, that may provide an alternative that requires less labor by Apple programmers.”

>Even Justice concedes that the source code and signature are the “keys to the kingdom,” that, if stolen, would let hackers and spies enter millions of devices world-wide. So the same pros who can’t defend Office of Personnel Management records should get custody of Silicon Valley’s most dangerous intellectual property.

Ideally, the signature is far more dangerous to security than the source code, but anyway it is reassuring to see more writing that fails to see all sides of every debate equally valid regardless of consensus opinion among experts in the relevant fields.
Nice to see jointjs on HN frontpage.

Have been using this for 3 months to develop a MS VISIO like editor for the web.
Yeah, that's a lot like what I'm thinking, or at least, they're going in the right direction.
The Honorable Schoolboy
If I didn't know that lots of sites are "height = 100%" sectioned, I would have just pressed the play button.

Add a "scroll down" maybe?
+1 for DC. Built on Square's crossfilter library and reductio . it's an awesome way to do R-like analytics innthe browser.
Ethereum boosters have really been taking advantage of the strife in the Bitcoin community over the past two months. There was a massive private message spam campaign on Reddit and then when classic didn't immediately win there were a ton of "I sold all my btc and bought ETH" posts many of which were probably spam. The Peak in ETH price was a few days ago around 14 and the price has been tanking since. These NYT pieces will probably give it another leg up though.

The funny thing is that there are very few exchanges where you can buy ETH for USD directly instead you have to first buy BTC then exchange it for ETH.
That sounds good in theory but is unlikely to yield satisfactory results since you're not on their critical path. PIs are busy people; they will turn most of their attention on grant-funded critical-path projects. It's a similar instance of this problem: http://pgbovine.net/fellowship-warnings.htm
I wrote letters to my Congress critters arguing essentially the same point

It is disqualifying that a "leader" like James Comey would argue that the government can reasonably demand that private companies can protect customer secrets and give the government a secret path to access those secrets, in spite of everyone's failure to properly protect secrets (ala home depot, target, opm, et. Al.).

This is not the argument of a serious, honest man. It advertises his ignorance of reality and utter incompetence of judgement.
> 1 + 1 = 3?

They just haven't graduated yet ;-)
Wait, what? The 4 paragraphs you quoted seem to directly answer your question about how Powell and HRC acted differently ("Clinton never had such a desktop or a classified email account, according to the State Department.")

Also, even if we now find out that Powell acted as poorly as HRC, that doesn't excuse either of them at all. It just means that they're both guilty, not that Hillary should get off the hook because previous Secretaries of State did it too.
> Ethereum offers nothing more than Bitcion

It offers a more powerful scripting language to define contracts.

> Ethereum could quickly outdate itself by defining a fixed language.

If offers a "bytecode" type language which can be created by compiling contracts in >=2 languages already. Bitcoin currently lets you define contracts in the equivalent of assembly code, with no higher level languages available. So this statment seems to apply more to Bitcoin than Ethereum.

> Bitcoin could be easily made Turing complete.

Bitcoin developers can't even agree to a simple block size increase. What makes you think they would be able to do something as complex as adding turing-complete scripting capabilities?

> Unless I am missing something, a new currency is simply unnecessary.

Since bitcoin does not support 2-way pegged sidechains yet, it's not possible to launch a new blockchain without launching a new currency to power that blockchain. Besides, you need a way to reward the miners.

> Soon, I am sure a prototype of what I described will be released on bitcion thus obscuring Ethereum.

That's basically what Rootstock[0] is supposed to be. Although at present, it seems to be vaporware.

A year ago I used to have a similar viewpoint to you, that Bitcoin had such a massive first mover advantage and network effects that it would remain the dominant public blockchain, and that even as new inventions appeared, they would be backported to bitcoin. But over the past 6 months I've realized how useless Bitcoin is without a genuine respected leader/BDFL, and now think that without a leader it's doomed to design by committee and stalemate on key decisions, which leaves the playing field wide open for competitors like Ethereum.

[0] http://www.rootstock.io/
> So then what makes this situation any different or any more deserving of attention?

Well that's pretty obvious: she's the leading candidate for the Presidency. Would you claim it's unfair that the leading candidate for the highest office shouldn't be heavily scrutinized or treated differently than other people? That premise wouldn't be realistic, the world has never and will never work that way. It's unfair? Ok, let's say it's unfair (assuming similar abuses occurred under the last Bush White House and aren't going to be pursued at all), I agree... so what. Since when do leading presidential candidates get treated fairly?

It's also unfair if Hillary is being protected from prosecution by the Obama Administration, which appears to be the case right now. General Petraeus had his career destroyed for doing less than what Hillary has done. We already know for a fact that she communicated classified information improperly.

If there's no evidence that Colin Powell did anything wrong, then you don't get to proclaim that he broke the law. The difference - if that's all the evidence that exists regarding Powell - is that we have a full chain of proof of what Hillary did.

Hillary should get into appropriate trouble for it (which would instantly end her candidacy for President), and there needs to be an investigation into any other recent past abuses. It's that simple.
I don't think so. I left VMware in late 2015. The news came to be a bit of a shock to me. Everyone that I've talked to about the layoffs was/is completely surprised about the fate of Fusion and Workstation. Every single person on those teams was let go. They were fairly small teams.

Also, it's worth noting that Workstation and Fusion will be EOL by March, 2017.

On a related note. It annoys me, in articles about VMware, when they mention that EMC owns 80% of VMware. Yes, that's true, BUT... EMC owns 97% of the voting stock. Once Dell finishes the acquisition, you might as well just call VMware a private company.
https://rnduja.github.io/2016/03/25/a_first_look_to_akka_str... is also pretty good.
EU ministers to demand more data access after Brussels attacks
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11372455
Have you thought about using devices like the ESP8266? [1]

You could probably work out a way to wire in the humidity sensor onto that, and scale it up via a printed PCB.

And instead of worrying about GETs, you can program the device to report in via MQTT to a central server.

You likely know all this, just curious :)

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13678
Maybe I'm crazy, but I feel like the big inflection point with these single board computers will really come when they have PCI express slots on them.

There's a whole bunch you can do with peripherals and networking over PCIe that would make those chips useful for a new set of situations.
Having actually played this game, it is somewhat basic, and most importantly, SINGLE PLAYER. You're not debating anyone else. Essentially think of it like an RPG/strategy game, you create your political candidate by picking a party (class) and issues to debate (skills). Then turn based style you pick states to operate in, hold a rally, (direct attack), run a campaign ad, (ranged attack) poll, and raise funding(basically turn-based combat, attack, analyze opponent for weaknesses, heal).

It's interesting, I would've enjoyed playing it a little when I was younger and didn't know anything about how campaigns are run.
Somewhere or other I heard about a guy named Masunobu Fukuoka. He's written a book called the "One Straw Revolution". He was a plant biologist who decided to research very low input farming (not "organic", actually virtually no inputs other than water). His basic premise was that if you tried to optimise how nature handled the crops rather than trying to do it yourself as the farmer, you would get good yields with very little work/cost. He famously suggested that each person should be given a quarter acre of land and that they should spend an hour or two a day using his "natural farming techniques" to feed themselves.

There is some controversy over whether he really got the kinds of yields he reported with the kind of work he said he did. Part of the problem was that he got really famous and people would wander over and help him out for a while so that they could learn his techniques. However, I have a friend who studied with him and I can report that he literally does manage to feed himself and his wife all of their fruit and vegetables and only spend some of his spare time (he is a high school teacher by trade). The biggest piece of labour is cutting the rice, which takes several days (and which he does all by hand).

When I visited his fields (in Japan), it had been a bad year that had been compounded by a typhoon just before harvest. My friend's field was in great shape while you could see that the neighbours had lost at least 20% of their crop. It was also really interesting to see the difference in wildlife diversity between the fields. These fields were very small (about the size of a large house lot in the US) and my friend's lot was full of frogs, snakes and spiders, while the neighbour's had nothing in them but rice. My friend said that his neighbour usually produces more rice than he does, but that his field is always much better in a bad year.

I actually did a 5 year experiment trying to grow food in containers with no inputs other than water. You need fairly big containers (depth is the most important thing), but I was surprised how well it worked. At the end of the 5 years I was getting pretty good yields with virtually no work and no inputs. In the end I had to give up because while the containers grew a lot of food, they also grew a lot of weeds. The neighbours didn't understand and one day I got home to find the gas man spraying herbicide on everything. Everybody thought it was an eyesore and he was delegated to "fix" the problem. :-P

In any case, my experience makes me think that there is room for some research in farming where we don't try to micro-manage everything.
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Physics-Magnetism-Electr... was a surprisingly good alternative to my high school physics text. He wrote more than stories and essays.

(And it really ought to be free: 50 years old, by a writer 25 years dead now.)
But they had the gall of running promotions on twitter...
Required update to Pacman 5.0.1 before 23/04/2016
The easiest way to use thread pools in Scala is to use an ExecutionContext. Akka will let you define an ExecutionContext from a configuration file using a wrapper called a Dispatcher -- you can ramp up the parallelism-max setting for more cores. Then you do actorSystem.dispatchers.lookup("my-dispatcher") and pass it to all the actor based code that you are using.

You can use a work pulling set of actors to handle computation after that, or use Akka Streams to provide backpressure, to avoid the OOM problem.
Looking at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cgroups/* it seems that while the renamed cgroups kernel functionality by itself did have initial google authorship, the "actually make it useful" later developments of namespaces and LXC (ie. first userspace component) did not come from Google, and by the time Google was working on cgroups code from SGI and other sources (such as cpusets) had already been merged. Precisely what Google wrote would be an interesting question, in any event it's significantly less than "all of the above" as the article claims. By the time I started looking at it in 2009, development was dominated by IBM, who apparently funded LXC userspace development because they felt the new features would be good for their big mainframes.
OK, thought experiment: What if you hold two browser windows open, one window to a blog article and another window to an HN / Reddit / forum thread discussing the article. Would the author of this article give you the same level of ire they apply to Genius in this article?

What if you have a program that helps you do the two-window trick, positioning and sizing the windows automatically?

What if you modify the program to hide the URL bar on one of the windows, making it a minimal frame?

What if instead of doing the same UI function at the OS level, you write it at the browser level in a plugin or some custom browser logic?

What if instead of doing it in a browser plugin, you make a website that does the same function so the user doesn't have to go through the hassle of installing a plugin?

At what point do you cross the line from "that's clearly OK" to "you're mis-appropriating the site publisher's content"?

I see this as simply an alternative UI that gives the user more control over how articles, and discussion about those articles, utilize their screen real estate.

Site owners can't moderate commentary on their articles? They can't moderate Reddit or HN threads about their articles today, and nobody seems to be up in arms over that.

Completely unmoderated commentary becoming a haven for the worst sorts of people trolling in all sorts of ways, illegal activities, etc.? If you run this UI, you're opting into a community that has whatever level of moderation it has -- if it's moderated lightly or not at all, users will likely soon be accosted by something they offensive, and make an appropriate decision about whether this community is right for them.

This isn't the sort of thing I would use, but it seems mildly innovative and relatively benign (or at least not any more offensive than any other social networking startup that underestimates the moderation burdens of running a large online community).
> She's not a technology security expert

Which makes setting up her own server all the worse.

> They can't provide her with a secure device.

They did, but it wasn't a BlackBerry one. BlackBerry or Windows Mobile, I don't think either were that secure anyway.

I agree with the general sentiment that digital security in the government is between catastrophic and terrible. It's now going towards just "terrible", so there' some progress, I suppose.
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