skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting the rebuttal to the article I wrote over at SHTFplan. While I won't disagree with your assessment that "nobody cares," it's become increasingly clear that all digitally processed data is being fused into complex 'social network' like databases. The Fusion centers mentioned in the article do just this. They aggregate data looking for flags. No, there isn't a person sitting around listening specifically to your phone calls, or specifically monitoring your internet traffic or emails... It's all plugged into digital monitoring systems. You really don't matter.... until you're flagged.

We can play this game all day long, but the fact of the matter is that systems like this do exist. Operation Echelon, as I pointed out in this article, is designed for this specific purpose and has been used extensively in over 15 countries in Europe in the 1990's, and has likely expanded by now. This is verifiable and confirmed by the US and British governments - just look it up - don't be scared. Computers ARE listening to your conversations utilizing speech recognition technology. And if you happen to say a keyword, or string of keywords, the conversation is flagged and dispatched for human analysis. This is FACT, not tin foil stuff.

With regards to cell phones and the comment from "fredu golon" here in your rebuttal, again, this is not science fiction. This is CONFIRMED by the FBI as early as 2006. It's called "Roving Bug" technology and it is active in most every cell phone that comes to market: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html . While the 'camera' side of this is unconfirmed, it's obvious that the technology is possible and likely in use right now.

Likewise is the technology possible to monitor microphones and cameras on your home PC... It's as simple as accessing your network. While I certainly don't know how to do it. And you don't know how to do it. Are you really of the thought that top-level intelligence agencies do not have this capability? And if they do, how long before the technology is integrated with monitoring systems so that computers can, at the push of a button, listen to entire networks of users having conversations at home? My view is that the purpose Fusion networks and centers is exactly this over the long-term.

I have no paranoia or delusions about what's going on here, and I realize I am but a speck of dust on a beach of billions of digitally-connected internet and cell phone users. The point here was not to necessarily suggest the YOU, specifically, are being monitored, but that the system as a whole has the capabilities to do so and is actively doing it right now.

Call it tin foil, that's fine. But the evidence, some of which was cited above, simply cannot be denied.

Thanks.

Mac Slavo
www.SHTFplan.com
"The number of companies who failed to go public in SF because of this tax is zero." Do you have a citation for that, or is it just a blind assertion?

The reason this is a hot button issue is that San Francisco is becoming more attractive to startups, many of which are now looking to IPO in a couple years. These startups will not be able to IPO in San Francisco if this stays the same.

Most people would consider startups in San Francisco a good thing; Although, admittedly, not all people -- some people just want everything to stay the way it is.

Further, education issues have no place in this discussion. Education will be impacted exactly 0% by eliminating this tax, because the city currently does not collect any revenues from it.

Might the city collect more revenues in the future by keeping the tax? Absolutely not: if it keeps it, it will become literally impossible for fast-growing startups to stay in the city, and San Francisco will lose a significant amount of payroll taxes from those startups leaving.

Blindly support all taxes if you will, but the facts are that San Francisco is the only major city to tax companies on employees' personal gain from stock options, that it would be untenable for any fast-growing startup to be based in SF with this tax, and that the city does not currently receive any revenue from it, so there will be no revenue to make up.
Interesting.

While from a code licensing perspective there's no trouble with OpenJDK forks, the patent licensing supposedly only holds for implementations that can pass the compatibility kit, which Oracle has refused to let alternate JDKs run in the past. I wonder if they have changed their tune for this or if they are just looking the other way.
Because a lot of SF-based startups are looking to go public in the next few years. This has not been the case before.
The "green pixel" in your camera is a hot pixel, probably due to a partially defective sensor. This isn't guaranteed to occur in all (or even a significant number of) cameras.

Not to mention noise is, by definition, high entropy and hard to predict. There are patterns to noise due to sensor design and manufacturing, but that would make it unique to the sensor design, not to a specific copy of it.
This time there is existing practice - Opera Unite and Tonido.
It's great to see people tackling this problem, but I wouldn't declare victory for sweble just yet ("The Parser That Cracked..."). There are other promising MediaWiki parser efforts out there.

For one, sweble is a Java parser, and I'm not sure this makes it a good drop-in replacement for the current MediaWiki PHP code. The DBPedia Project also has what looks like a decent AST-based Java parser [1]. I would be interested in a comparison between sweble and DBPedia's WikiParser.

I stumbled across a very nice MediaWiki scanner and parser in C a while ago [2]. It uses ragel [3] for the scanner; the parser is not a completely generic AST builder, but is rather specific to the problem of converting MediaWiki markup to some other wiki markup. It does do quite a bit of the parser work already though.

Presumably a PHP extension around a C or C++ scanner/parser could someday replace the current MediaWiki parsing code.

[1] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DeveloperDocumentation/WikiParser?v=...

[2] http://git.wincent.com/wikitext.git

[3] http://www.complang.org/ragel/
If you allocate the stacks contiguously using mmap then memory is only used as it is accessed. That's not the problem. The problem is that 4000 concurrent non-trivial threads is a resource hog no matter how the stacks are allocated.
Slightly wrong, when distributing the binaries you either have to:

(a) distribute the source code immediately,
along with the binary
(b) provide a written offer in which you promise
to distribute the source-code to anyone
who asks in a timely manner

(b) is important because if you fail to provide that written offer as soon as you start distributing the binary, then you're not complying with the GPL.

I'm not in the know if Apple provided such offer, HTC on the other hand ...

And I'm pretty sure somebody requested it by now -- it's not like they are the only contributers to WebKit that would want to merge Apple's changes in master.

In the case of a lawsuit you also have to explain what took you so long to release the source-code -- timely manner is very relative, and in software when things move so fast a couple of months is not soon enough.

I do feel that Apple is somewhat morally justified and should be granted benefit of the doubt, in this particular case, since they invested in WebKit so much. But WebKit got so valuable precisely because it is open-source such that it can be a defacto standard for mobiles. Apple is also not the sole contributer, and they benefited from the work of others, so I don't see why they aren't playing nice.

Also, lots of double standards floating around -- I'm seeing some people that cried wolf on Google's actions regarding postponing the release of Android 3.0, although they are complying with the licenses involved and although they had perfectly understandable business reasons for doing so -- those people are actually trying to justify Apple's actions right now.

I don't know why we treat these stories like some kind of sport, in which everyone cheers for their favorite, but we do, although there isn't anything to gain unless you're a shareholder.
pud taught me a whole lot when I worked for him. good to see him blogging.
Ahh... thanks for the clarification
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As a response to the original study, please refer to "Why Psychologists Must Change the Way They Analyze
Their Data: The Case of Psi": http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Wag...

The main point of it is that the parapsychologists have done nothing wrong: they're following the same methods and using the same techniques as the actual psychologists. The real problem is that those methods and techniques are not good enough.

Also related, "Parapsychology: The Control Group for Science": http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ib/parapsychology_the_control_group...
More useful than most things posted here by virtue of being specific with details and blunt about what worked for you. Thanks.
Yes, it is possible and it has been done. Here is a paper that talks about it: http://isis.poly.edu/~forensics/pubs/investigation08.pdf

I did a summary presentation of the topic and paper.
PPT: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/716143/digicam-fingerprint.ppt
PPTX: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/716143/digicam-fingerprint.pptx

EDIT: The paper I linked above details source identification by recognizing patterns in demosaicing artifacts. In that paper the authors combined the demosaicing fingerprinting with their earlier noise fingerprinting work: http://isis.poly.edu/~forensics/pubs/icme2007.pdf
I am not an investor in startups, I'm running one. I have the same perspective: We are more than happy to pay San Francisco's unusual payroll tax, but this tax on employee options would force us to move out of the city in a few years.

If your argument is that you don't want startups in San Francisco, that's a very fair position to hold, but it's not what we're discussing.
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From reading the article, and especially the interesting comments thereon, it seems this problem is half a bogus "language" specification and half that the unwashed masses are inputting any damn thing they like and Wikipedia accepts it.

I suppose this is one of the knobs that must be tuned to balance between reproducible I/O and turning away meaningful contributions from the community.
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The ads were put there by wordpress, which we use to host the development blog; we're not so immensely retarded that we'd explicitly put them on ourselves to try to make money. Until recently (today? this week?) they've never been there, so we didn't notice them or think to purchase the ad-free version. As soon as someone on our team noticed this (about 5 minutes ago), we purchased the no-ads upgrade.
They also don't store regular cookies. But that doesn't prevent other techniques such as evercookie to track the user.
Shows up as an HTML5 video element for me in Safari.
My god, he is so hungover in this video...
earthclassmail.com is what they should look at. Many things don't need to be delivered. The post office could actually let people see images of mass mailings before they are even printed or let people print them themselves with no delivery.

In other words, where electronic mail won't work, USPS could handle parts of the delivery that make sense and how its done shouldn't matter.

As far as delivery 6 days a week, I think most people could get by with delivery 2 or 3 times a week.

Delivery of commercial could be scheduled to arrive just before delivery days so they could avoid storing too much mail.

USPS or private equivalents could also accept and store electronic bills for you as a trusted third party so you can access them as long as needed. It could certify that bills have actually been paid.

There are a lot of things that could be done to leverage its "official" position. But to do so, it actually must become technically competent. At the moment, it cannot even put the mail into the right box consistently at my house.
Indeed. But perhaps the author can't decide or doesn't want to recommend SASS over LESS and vice versa.
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A NYT article during development in 2009:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/business/10novel.html
This is a breakthrough and a welcome one. From a end user point of view, it has a couple major implications.

First, I believe this reveals the complexity of the parser, which implies a complex syntax, which implies a complex user interface as felt by end users. A more complex the user interface may make it harder it is to attract new editors, although it's unclear (to me) if that is a fact.

Second, having an AST representation is awesome. It makes it possible to even think about building a path towards WYSIWYG or some other form of rich text editing. It was not really possible to build a WYSIWYG editor around the wiki syntax.

If you have an AST, you can also store the page as the AST since you can regenerate the wiki syntax from the AST for people who need text-based editors.
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That's funny I wanted something similar to determine it based on the trunk of each tree. In Canada there are no leafs on trees half of the year and you can make some interesting edible syrups with certain trees.
I don't think it needs to be more efficient than the CPU to merit moving to the GPU. If the horsing around to get the data in and out is less work than doing the job, then you may was well put the GPU to work and improve your total throughput.

Perhaps the memory page deduplication candidate detection could run out there. It would be memory bound, but maybe by not ruining the CPU cache it would be a win. (This is important for systems running a bunch of virtual machines.)
It is very relevant to the discussion. If you are not sure check the Tonido architecture.
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"If the writer doesn’t respond, try a different one. But only one at a time — they won’t like you if you give the same story to their competitor. "

What is a good amount of time to wait between contacting writers? Or how much time has to pass without a response for you to to decide to move on to the next one?
But if you enable p2p communication between javascript clients, there should be nothing stopping you from implementing that kind of stuff within the browser.
Partially true. Short code may be too cryptic to be easily maintained.
It's possible - I can't say I gave it much consideration, I just used automake because I knew about it and it's widely available.

I shouldn't need to include autogen.sh or require people to have automake/autoconf installed to build it, but I had problems using a configure script/Makefile generated on one system on another. I guess I'll sort it out when I come to understand the tools a bit better.
That is an interesting point . . . OpenJDK itself is covered by the patent grants, but this is a patched version of OpenJDK. That said, the original research done here was sponsored by Oracle, and Thomas now works in Oracle Labs.
What I'm saying is that the people who wrote KHTML have copyright over Webkit. They released their code under the LGPL, and its Apple's obligation to honor this license until they remove all the original code or get contributers to sign a copyright assignment form. That's how open source projects work: either all the code is owned by some central entity, or the code is owned by the various contributers. When the code is owned by the contributers, your patch is considered a derivative work (for the purpose of copyright) of the other copyright holders' work, so you have to follow the license. On the flip side, if every patch has documentation saying that the central authority (the FSF, the Apache Foundation, etc.) has copyright, then that central authority can relicense however they want. For example, Emacs is now GPLv3, even though most of the code was written well before the GPLv3 existed.

In the case of Webkit, Apple does not require copyright assignment. The code was not originally theirs - their version of Webkit is a fork of KHTML, and so the copyright from KHTML is in force. They have to follow the LGPL, because otherwise they have no legal right to use the code in their products.

That's all I'm saying: the question was "who has a legal claim over Webkit", and my answer was "everyone who's contributed".

The LGPL allows Apple to keep the rest of their stack that links against Webkit proprietary. However, they have to release their changes to Webkit.

Here is the exact wording from the LGPL v2:

These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Library, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Library, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
Well, for development anyway... It is amazing.
Yes I work for Tonido. There is nothing wrong in saying we do the same stuff. If u think Tonido is irrelevant to the discussion that is your prerogative.
Mongodb crashed overnight. Guess it's not webscale or something. It's up and I'm trying to figure out what killed it.
I don't believe so. I had checked this and the perf issue went away. Maybe you're referring to a different issue. Can you post a link with perf data?
It's not about being "open". Its about following the terms of the license. And I believe the only way to enforce a license is through litigation so a lawsuit should be expected.
I dont know about this really. Buying a record label nowadays is like buying a social networking site- Its waste of cash
Yeah, never isn't a likely timeframe for JVM restarts, especially in development, where the DCEVM really shines. You change some Java class, you have your Tomcat server running, you get your new behavior on your web app that you can test out right away without restarting Tomcat. It is a huge productivity boost.

I'm not convinced that you'd want to use DCEVM in production.
do not worry Pud, you are not spamming

From a former F'ck'dCompany forum member
I sincerely doubt this will ever happen. Objective-C never made sense. It was brought over from NeXT and Steve Jobs has shown an absolute dedication to it. So even though no one else was using it Jobs threw all the other Mac tools out and replaced them with Objective-C and XCode (which at the time was Project Builder)

To this day every Mac development tool out there still finds its origins in NeXTstep and Apple's hasn't even hinted at changing that (in fact they've adopted SproutCore in their web projects which is a tool built to emulate the current Mac Desktop development model)
It comes up because Apple is violating the license they agreed to when they started distributing the KHTML sourcecode under the name webkit. And yes, the LGPL requires you to release the code, not wait weeks or months.
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Microsoft probably has a good chance of winning this war, when you look at the amount of people who are completely unwilling to stop using Office in favor of docs for whatever reason. I know so many people like that.

Me, I stopped using Office over a year ago now. Pure google docs and that's it. I miss nothing.
In my experience, it's only relative to the speed of the server that you are connecting to. I have a 20megabyte (not megabit which is a common misconception) circuit but usually can only get 5-8MB of bandwidth on average from the server that I am connecting to.

We didn't notice much of a difference when we upgraded from 10MB to 20MB for this reason. We have more pipe to download concurrently but doesn't necessarily mean that the "internet" is going to be "faster"
So this is a tax cut for millionaires, then. Got it.
Phiber Optik (Mark Abene) had a pretty interesting talk yesterday at NY Hacker about using CUDA for intrusion detection calculations.
Good story idea: “I’m not sure if my thing is legal.”

This is definitely going to the top of my how-to-bait-reporters list.
They have to be made available. You can ship a binary with a link to the code for example. But I do believe it's supposed to be available from the day the binaries are out.
There's something wrong with blatant self-promotion. Especially considering that you:

- don't use a disclaimer

- pretend you're not involved in the project by talking about "They"

It's a cheap way of trying to game the community to get users.
As a hardcore Apple fan, I strongly hope one of the non-Apple contributors to Webkit sends a source request to Apple with the implicit threat of lawsuit.

Big companies don't treat others with kid gloves when it comes to licensing and copyright, so why should we take it from them?
Calculating Viterbi paths for Hidden Markov Models is faster by an order of magnitude or two than doing it on the CPU. I worked on porting NVIDIAs OpenCL implementation to a more 'platform neutral' version for the research project I'm involved in.

Here are some more examples:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/opencl/sdk/webs...

There are many, many applications beyond crypto.
or it might make it more secure by opt-in to being tracked where you are accessing it from.
Honestly I don't like Linux, FreeBSD, Windows.. etc where everything under the sun is stuffed into a privileged domain and is stagnating to the point where hardware common 10 years ago is just becoming useful w.r.t the kernel. I can only hope that something new will come along and simply multiplex the hardware and have abstractions as a 'library' without having to hack through n subsystems to add feature x.
The scroll thumbs actually have about the same area as the scrollbar. Maybe larger, because the little tab pops up under wherever the mouse is, so you don't need to seek for it vertically like with a normal scrollbar. In theory.

In practice, they're too fiddly, sometimes appearing on the inside, sometimes on the outside, and requiring you to move your mouse in and out of the window frame. If they get that sorted, they'll be on par with (if not better than) normal scrollbars, imho.
> it depends on how you think of functions... If you think of everything as an expression, of course it has some kind of value.

Sure, and functions by definition return a value. I know programming isn't math, but the notion of a "void function" is somewhat of an oxymoron.
"Node.js is a way lower-level tool than erlang"

What on Earth are you talking about? Erlang is a language/VM combo (it's hard to separate the two), with nothing else between it and the OS. Node sits on top of a VM not really intended for what it is being used for, so Node has another layer between it and the OS. And the programming style engendered by Node.js is the single most bug-ridden programming style I know, for all its other features. Manually-chopped-up asynchronous callback based programming is a terrible paradigm for code reliability.

Erlang is also unparalleled in general for its error handling. I can't even think of another environment that even has a story equivalent to Erlang's cross-cluster supervision trees built in to the core libraries themselves, let alone one with over a decade of refinement.
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$67.99 per person -- plus the cost of the software itself,and the hardware to run it on, and the IT people to deploy/maintain it.
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CSS offers many solutions to layout. The problem is what a lot of web surfers are stuck with old versions of some particular browser.
Any chance of sharing the numbers?