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There are lots of ways to overcome that as well. For one, you could set up your computer such that if you don't enter some key combination every minute it shuts down. Or you could set up a tricky kernel that does not allow opening/cp'ing certain files and if you try, triggers a shutdown. Or you could have speech recognition running, and as soon as you utter a certain phrase near your machine, it shuts down.

The point is that inaction or inadvertent action by the law enforcement may trigger an action on the machine. Such digital landmines could be made so unpredictable that there would be virtually no way to extract the data on site reliably.

In general, there is no solution to this problem. The person protecting their data will always be able to surprise the person that's trying to extract it. Furthermore, no government can control "manufacture" of encryption, the way that it can control manufacture of physical goods. It could mandate that a backdoor must be provided, or that you need to escrow your decryption key such that it could get at your data, but let's face it: people that do have something sinister to hide will not care much for this regulation anyways.
Something similar: At the last Music Hack Day in Boston Joe Berkovitz of Noteflight, an online music score editor, implemented the Music Autocomplete idea using Peachnote's data, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4-eF02Wmdw.

By the way, all functionality in Peachnote is exposed vie an API, so it's easy to experiment with.

Generally, if anybody here is interested in music n-grams and in doing something cool with the largest symbolic music data set available, please get in touch!

(I develop Peachnote)

PS: a paper on Peachnote is available at http://www.viro.name/papers/ISMIR11.pdf
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There is a similar facility in England, also now a museum-of-sorts of the cold war: "the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker".

http://www.secretnuclearbunker.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvedon_Hatch_Secret_Nuclear_B...

It's a fun visit, but probably a little less authentic than this museum, as it was emptied when it was decommissioned, and it's been largely re-stocked with surplus, based on what people who worked there said that it used to look like.

The local street signs are amusing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/halfbyte/2671279410/
For some reason, Google Scholar doesn't have the link (sometimes it misses preprints for a while).

That being said, there are substantial placebo effects related to deep brain stimulation.
See: psych.umb.edu/faculty/adams/Psypharm%202009/annurev.pharmtox.48.113006%20Benedetti%202008.pdf
Thats not the original paper, but a review of the subject (and lots more, if you're interested) which is freely available.

Depression is also known to be highly placebo responsive, so in essence unless this trial was double blind, then it doesn't really tell us anything.
The blue flat panel displays in the first picture and farther down are confusing. They're clearly not original, only a few years old. Perhaps the museum people did some reconstruction? I wonder what else we're seeing is reconstruction of what they thought a soviet bunker should look like.
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Agreed, this is what I wanted to say when I saw this.

I think it's creative and interesting. If one doesn't like it, what is preventing them from either ignoring it or quickly viewing and moving on?

It sure is alot better than great amount of other posts that make the front page throughout the days.

Also, just note, that a lot of the Hackers / Hacker News members I met at Startup School 2010 and in general are very much interested in and do things like this as a side gig or hobby and invest just as much money or more in nice equipment to do so.
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I agree with you in one sense, however the huge military expenditure allowed Silicon Valley to emerge.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=secret+histor...

You could drive yourself mad playing a game of "what if we did things this way instead?"
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It will probably come to DVD or be distributed on another channel in your country. If not, it still doesn't grant you a moral or legal right to the content.

If you pirate instead of paying then you make distributing to your country unprofitable; that sounds like the opposite effect from what you want.
Jim is a brilliant presenter. But it is kaons (K-mesons or K -- which do oscillations similar to B and ...D!), not "koans".
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As a developer who wants to integrate a few new open graph verbs, I'm wondering if this behavior can be bypassed? I don't want a registration wall for people to view our content.

Any developers here know if it's possible to bypass?

Thanks?
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She makes a great point. Maybe, just maybe, things would get better if enough people didn't pay money to sites with awful usability.

But then I see how wildly successful Amazon is and I realise that I'm just dreaming.
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It's not good when blogspam from englishrussia.com is on the HN frontpage for hours.
There is also the NIST's Dictionary of Algorithms & Data Structures, which is formatted a little nicer. These are mostly 'textbook' algorithms though, probably not as specific as most of whats on StackOverflow

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/
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Stanford's lectures are way better.
I really don't understand what is the point of such entries. Everybody knows stack overflow. Putting a link to a tag on SO is not really something worth sharing.
On a number of different subreddits, sure. But on Hacker News?
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> Nothing annoys me more than paying for a movie ticket and sitting through 10 minutes of commercials before a film.*

A month of Netflix costs much less than a single movie ticket. Sometimes I wonder how they manage to keep the subscription rate so low without advertising.
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Thanks Dan!

Amazon is far from perfect, but they are the Walmart of the web. Small players need to be better, and hopefully know that Amazon.com is not the standard for which they should aim.
I believe DVD sales had more positive impact than piracy. AD is currently the #45 top comedy DVD on Amazon... five years after its release.

If you love the show so much then pay don't pirate.
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"nuclear weapons have prevented continuation of WW2"

I would tend to agree with that. However, the levels of weaponry that were deployed were arguably far higher than was actually required to achieve effective mutual deterrence - by a huge factor. If you actually read the details of what would have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis or Able Archer 83 had ended as shooting wars then prepare to have your blood run cold and we did get very close to indeed to shooting wars - particularly in the case of Cuba.

Somewhat ironically, given that I am British, a child of the 70s/80s and not a Conservative, one of the actual heroes of the Cold War was actually Reagan - not for his "Evil Empire" rhetoric but because he actually had the decency to believe that your average Soviet citizen was just as decent as your average America, Brit or German. He was, by all accounts, so shocked when he heared intelligence reports of how terrified the Soviet leadership were of a possible NATO first strike that he deciced to open up a dialogue with the Soviets. For most of the Cold War it was the Soviets who were afraid of NATO - perhaps justifiably so as I am not aware of any military leaders in the Warsaw Pact who actively tried to start a nuclear war, which is not something we can say about the West.
Yep, I'm the same way. Installing Apps was a novelty at one point, now I won't install anything. I've started using Facebook less and less.

Another deceptive tactic? Apparently my account has "low security". So I go in and see what my settings are adjusted to. Everything how I like it (private). But the "low security" warning sits there, in perpetuity, until I give Facebook my phone number, apparently.
I used a similar visual concept to produce the following: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Impossible-Triangle/1968627

However, I chose to manually use random numbers so it wasn't exactly quick. I wonder if there's a way I could have hooked Photoshop up to do that.
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Why is it especially important that the author's name is female ("even though it doesn't look like one")?

Not only is it not relevant, it reveals a deep personal bias that only serves to taint the rest of the article's assertions.

Less of this, please.
This is a pretty strange sentence: We are even more saddened by the events that subsequently transpired to facilitate their removal.

The only sentence in the statement that seems to actually refer to the actions being criticized, and written in the most indirect/vague possible manner.
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Morality is what you should already feel it is. I.e if you have to ask, you will never know.

Or, perhaps, asking is the way that you show you already know it is wrong.
If you want to visit a similar facility in the US, there's one at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia:

http://www.greenbrier.com/play-here/the-bunker.aspx

The Greenbrier bunker was built in the late 1950s/early 1960s as the emergency relocation point for the U.S. Congress in the event of a nuclear war. Its existence was kept secret until 1992, when a Washington Post story revealed it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/bri...

There are other similar facilities from the same era now known to the public, like Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, Mount Weather in Virginia, and Raven Rock ("Site R") in Pennsylvania, but since those all still have some operational role they offer less access to the public than the Greenbrier bunker (which was decommissioned after the Post story) does.
No. No, it doesn't make sense. I don't care what my friends read - I only care what they think was good out of that. You can't just open up everybody's browser logs and call that viral.
Wouldn't it be legal for him to hold his friend's gun?
I'm not sure morality really cares about this, I've certainly never noticed society to have qualms about making shiny profits off the backs of poor people.

But it certainly doesn't feel ethical.
This seems like a classic broken window fallacy. I don't think you really appreciate how huge the huge is:

> The cost of the Cold War was staggering; for the US the bill was $19.65 trillion (1948-1991) in 2010 dollars, of which $8,731.5 billion (also in 2010 dollars) was expended directly for nuclear arms.[34], [35] Precise data for the dollar cost of the Cold War to the USSR are not available, however it is generally believed that the Soviet Union spent 12-13% of its GDP on military programs in direct support of the Cold War...If Soviet expenditures for the Cold War were indeed on a par with those of the US, then the approximate dollar value for whole endeavor by both sides would be in the range of $40 trillion 2010 US dollars. To put that into perspective, that is also, give or take, the approximate net worth of the United States of America, at current market value, e.g., $50-60 trillion US!

http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/06/21/the-armories-of-...

So, to justify spending the entire net worth of the present-day US - with the emergence of Silicon Valley already priced in - you point to Silicon Valley? This is a broken window to end all broken windows.
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Speaking as someone who once felt the same way, and has been paying lawyers the equivalent of a mortgage payment for the last three years, do yourself a favor and look in to insurance. At least some basic form will give you something to throw at a plaintiff should the day arrive. Attorneys working on contingency are incredibly difficult to convince that your start-up has no assets, and they seem happy to drag the suit out until you do.
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I spend one summer living in a bunker in Switzerland while I was working for CERN. Despite de absence of windows it was a great experience :D

Some photos of the bunker http://picasaweb.google.com/102604524089774844957/Shelter?fe...
Thanks for sharing. Glad to see these concerns are on their radar...and that they have designers!
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Easy solution: increase prices to avoid poor customers and the immorality of charging them what you want for something they want and seem to be willing to pay for.

Less snarky -- what's a profit? The opposite of a loss. States can run at a deficit (in fact it's apparently the ahem, "default", case), companies can't. You either have a deficit at the end of the year/month/week/day or a profit. Or in extremely statistically and mathematically unlikely cases, an actual zero (no profit / no loss). The whole "no-profit" thing has blown out of proportion. Overwhelmingly profits are a sign of providing great value while achieving attractive end-consumer prices ie. saving people money/time/trouble/hassle. Profits are the reward that is empirically overwhelming reinvested in the business, but feel free to donate it to charity or have it halved by your government to ease the immorality you have permitted yourself to indulge in.
Well, it's a weekend. Sharing this might lead some HNers spend some time going through the list of algorithms (which I thought is good; a refresher may be)which might be spent elsewhere. That's the intent.
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Why not? Earning money from poor people could be either ethical or unethical, there is no way to tell by only looking at the amount of money you're making and how poor the people are. The correct answer is that there isn't enough information to say.
As you may be aware, Stackoverflow Jobs (I guess it's called StackOverflow Careers 2.0 now) requires the job poster to mention the company. This seems to scare off the recruiters that don't have an exclusive arrangement with the hiring company.

I don't know but it would seem that a company wouldn't/couldn't keep a recruiter [with an exclusive arrangement] for long if they sent bad candidates. Of course, these things don't always make sense to me.
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Same here. It's basically the equivalent of spam to me now.
It hardly matters - at this point everybody under the age of 30 torrent it anyway (or get it from usenet).

The copyright battle has been lost for a long, long time now.
I strongly believe the revolution must be profitable. The OP says the same: profit is necessary to achieve scale and attract investment and competition to scale even faster.

If the poor are better off by generating you a profit that is wonderful. Do it.
The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository is a nice little collection of algorithms, plus they out link to various implementations:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/
Here's the former Scottish wartime government command bunker, in Fife: http://www.secretbunker.co.uk/explore_the_bunker.asp

Open for visitors -- I can highly recommend it as a day out (an hour's drive from Edinburgh).
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Last time I looked, only a tiny % of their expenses were on hosting. The vast majority was on research,salaries, business crap, idk what else.

Take a look.
David Cope experimented with Markov-chain-style generation of Bach pieces in the '80s, but he ended up switching to other models, like augmented transition networks (ATNs), because he wanted more global coherence, rather than locally coherent but wandering/aimless pieces.

He eventually ended up with a more complex system, EMI, that generates pieces in the style of around 100 composers, some of which have passed the "musical Turing test" in that scholars of the composer in question thought it might've been a genuine work.

There's a lot of pretty interesting experimentation with just about every possible generative grammar by other researchers, though, from Markov models to HMMs, context-free grammars, L-systems, cellular automata, etc. This 2009 book has a pretty good overview of what people have done, though it's textbook-priced: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3211999159/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Anyone who answers yes, should really think about this.

Consider that you're going to meet a successful business man with billions of dollars. You represent to him the idea of helping the poor via technological advances that require money to implement. He seems interested, until you say that you want your ideas to be implemented by a non-profit organization. Then he loses his interest in your ideas. Wouldn't it be better for everyone involved to operate for profit, when the alternative is to let things be?
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> There are at least 7 billion different perspectives on morality

... and only a few of them define it in terms of "sin".
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Ah, the "talking about it means you already lost" tactic. Very subtle, very subtle.
I am not following your train of thought.
Care to elaborate a little?
This is invaluable comment. Changes my whole perspective on how to represent the data. If I could I would use all my karma here. Thank you

EDIT: My mentor always says "graph or table has to stand on it's own" but that does not resonate with me. The "commenting code" analogy does.
In regards to the ethics of profiting from the poor, while everyone has their own definition, one if the biggest issues I could see is if one is trying to leverage the common lack of education to make people get into situations they don't understand or leverage their financial situation to offer them short-term solutions that ultimately have long-term harm.

It's also interesting to note that some cultures have codified protections against the poor from exploitation. For example, in ancient Israel according to the Bible, there were laws regarding excessive interest rates and a global debt-clearing every 50 years or so. Furthermore there were also some instructions that fallen unharvested crops be left ungathered for the poor to come and harvest themselves.
SII does not have pentile

Ah - my mistake.

The screen is bigger and much brighter than the iPhone's, which is more useful to me than 300+ppi

I don't watch movies on my iPhone, I mostly read text and surf the web - and type on the retina display looks much better than on the S2s that I've used.

(which was only done for technical reasons anyway

If by that you mean that type looks much better than at 800x480, then yes, this was done for technical reasons.

The phone is snappy no matter what you do

We have a different definition of snappy.

it's quite amazing to see 10+ app updates download and install in parallel, and complete in 30 seconds

I agree. And IOS 5 does this too.

I agree for people without any tech expertise iPhone is still the best choice.

Your condescension is misplaced. I have 20 years of programming experience and am currently employed as an embedded systems engineer. I want a smartphone that just works, and my 4S fits the bill.

Android in a carrier flavor, in my experience, is dreadful. Android on a nexus device works well enough - its just not as good as iOS. It's not that Gingerbread is bad - its just that IOS 4 is better, and IOS 5 widens that gap. I have no experience with ICS and neither do you, so we'll see whether this changes. It sounds as though perhaps Android has finally caught up - indeed, that's the whole point of this article.

And while I've never installed a custom ROM on an android device, I've concluded that with all the glitchiness, poor battery life, and instability that my friends customized android phones suffer, this doesn't constitute a working smartphone.

But if you really want an android device, more power to you. But when you say that an iPhone is still better for someone without any tech expertise, I certainly hope you're not implying that Android is necessarily better for anyone with tech expertise, because you'd be quite wrong.
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