skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which continues to moot the relevant point: Nvidia are withholding necessary software specs which not only aren't useful in reengineering their hardware, but which fail to protect against fully independent attacks (ghost shift manufacture) which at least allow duplication of current physical product if not producing a superior hardware product.
Interesting but I'm not entirely sure what his/her point is. "More courteous to describe than to criticize," sure, but then, also less useful and less of anything.

Personally I had a web site through the late 90's, into the early 2000's, followed by a blog for about 5 years. Eventually I shut down the blog as I got tired of it, and now I've gone back to a set of static web pages; the old classic style. Not because I'm nostalgic for it, but because it's actually a good, personal, relatable format.

When people see my home page, they see a nice set of information relevant to me, what I do, and what interests me. With all the disjoint services now available on the web, my home page serves as a hub to link them together.

I don't see anything altogether interesting about this fact, it just works. Maybe I didn't understand the article very well. But then, that's understandable.

"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

- Albert Camus
I'm actually kind of bored of reading business and tech books. A couple that I've read lately that I've enjoyed are listed below. I'd love to read about what other people have been reading that's sort of "off the beaten path", but interesting to someone who is not an expert in the subject.

The New Geography of Jobs:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008035HQQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... - a lot of it won't be all that surprising to readers of this site, though. Basically he says that innovation industries are highly concentrated geographically. This is probably not new territory for those who read a lot of economics type of stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UG9JFQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... - a book about copy writing. Not great so far, but something I could stand to learn more about. Other recommendations in this vein would be welcome!

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W5MINK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... - in time for the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812. Very interesting, and lots of things I didn't know.

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LW5JL2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... - same author as the above book.
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty - Dan Ariely. Read all his books and papers, for that matter.

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

I also liked Jonah Lehrer's Imagine, a book about creativity.

If you're into programming, I recommend The Joy of Clojure.
My favorite new-blogger experience was trying to scroll to the right on a page which was too wide. No horizontal scroll bar, middle-click pan didn't work, and right-arrow switched to the next post. They've done an amazing job of screwing things up that I didn't think could even be screwed up.
Does the Chinese government compiles and builds their own version or they trust Microsoft will use the exact same source they have shown?

In Brazil we had some interesting questioning regarding the security of electronic voting systems - in 2002, I was on the team that developed the WinCE version of the electronic ballot - we had the source for the application and some of the device drivers, but we didn't have the sources for the compilers, libraries and operating system. Any of those layers could harbor a known (or unknown) backdoor that could allow tampering with the voting data.

I'm pretty sure my compiler was clean (I installed my development machine from my MSDN subscription CDs before the corporate IT folks could get their hands on it, so I imagine nobody could have sneaked into my house to place the CDs in my backpack)
This alludes to it:

> The press are generally hyper-critical of the United States policies in the region and take the view that the India-US relationship is driving much of our countries behavior.

It's put in diplomatic terms, but anyone from a western country will recognise it as saying that the public discourse about India (and the US) is far from rational. Your other comments are a lot more precise, so thanks.
Does it worth to write new components using Clojure if you already invested in C#, F#, IronPython?
Thanks; I was especially thrown because I tried "home", which was the first example in the example image (!) but it didn't work and I thought I'd misunderstood what was going on. I guess I should have blindly tried others from that list, hoping for a different result. :P
Everything can be wrong when measured with a wrong reference. That, BTW, is used in marketing and PR to gain a better perception for one's "different" design. You have to do it "programmatic" on nix because that's how it's done there. Easer alternatives just aren't developed enough because those are't in accordance with the principles in place, thus aren't well received. Some like it, other come to hate it, like this guy did. You don't have to use "programatic deployment" on NT-kernel systems once all you want to do is get the job done. Stop thinking nix all the time.
Agreed. I only pointed out compound interest as an example of the kinds of tools that kids aren't really taught about (well, I wasn't, at least).

The thing is, I did actually pick up a book on stock investing as a teen... one more of my "library book sale" pick ups, but I skimmed through it, but the value of investing and taking advantage of the capital markets didn't "click" for me back then. Also, considering this was in the 80's, far before there was E-Trade or Sharebuilder or anything of that nature, the markets didn't seem very accessible to a poor kid growing up in rural NC.

At least that's one advantage we have today... something like Sharebuilder is a nice way to dip your toes in the water.
Multiple Exposure Portraits by Christoffer Relander
I am going to guess you are coming at this entirely from the perspective of a sysadmin who doesn't do a lot with python.

virtualenv allows you to easily isolate dependencies so that multiple versions can coexist in different projects without fighting. If you sysadmin significant amounts of Python stuff then you would have already seen that benefit. It also allows you to control PYTHONPATH more elegantly than setting it in every script. This lets you write clean sensible imports rather than using fragile path tricks or wrestling with relative imports.

Your project dependencies are often not exactly the same as what the distribution gives. On one hand, distributions can be mind-bogglingly slow about releasing updates to python libraries. On the other hand, you may not want to force your project to use a new update of something because it may introduce bugs. It is pretty essential to have some lead time to port if your app is anything important. So you need control of the versions of your dependencies.

So if your project dependencies are not exactly the same as what the distribution uses, then you will need some kind of isolation mechanism in order to allow your project to work as a distribution package. You could do that, but you could also save time and just use virtualenv.

Creating platform-specific packages is nontrivial, also it is platform-specific. If I write a library for Python I only want to specify the packaging metadata/scripts once. I am certainly not interested in trying to get it accepted in repos for every distribution.
this is hacker news?
There are legit reasons for secured boot systems. Even the Cr-48 Chromebooks shipped that way by default (and still fully hackable)

I think it just happens to be extremely convenient for Microsoft that doing this makes life a little harder for Linux/Alternate OS people.
For us blogging has been core to helping build a relationship with our customers, as well as brand awareness and recognition. It's not just something we do when we're bored.
"spend about a week trying to understand your customers needs and figuring out how to better serve them"

Effective blogging is one of the ways to do this. The point is not about blogging just for the sake of bloggin. Point is about spreading word about your startup, sharing your experiences, how you do things etc. These things will always intrigue a potential customer or well wishers of your startup.
Some of these sections are a little confusing. Can someone help me out? Hopefully Planet Money on NPR will do an episode on it soon :)

"So it goes to Wall Street, which issues a bond in your town's name to raise $100 million, attracting cash from investors all over the globe"

Why would investors put money into a school? Are they hoping for returns on their investmant later on like shares in a company? I can't image the profit margins on a school would be very lucrative. Why would people invest in these projects?

"While that unspent money is sitting in the town's account, local officials go looking for a financial company on Wall Street to invest it for them."

So the town raised money for a school which they then invest back into wallstreet, to make money? That seems like an odd process. Would it not be possible for towns to say "We are going to build a $300 million dollar theme park", get the money, and say "construction isn't due to start until, oh I don't know, 2023?", meanwhile just earning huge amounts of interest?

"the broker would tell the pre­arranged "winner" what the other two bids were"
If the three banks are colluding, why does the broker need to be the one to pass on the information of what the other bids where? Can't the banks just talk to each other directly and plan in advance what they are going to bid?
Wait until said author or the author of another tool / API enters in an argument with one of the elected moderator and gets banned: you're going to be "unsold". This is precisely what this discussion is about: it's about obviously knowledgeable SO users that are getting more and more pissed off by the behavior of these "close-trigger-happy" moderators. And this is relatively new: it wasn't anywhere near as bad two years ago on SO. The one thing that prompted me to leave is twice I spend time answering a question only to see the whole thread getting deleted: this is a waste of my time (I don't care about the b*llshit reason invoked by those overzealous mod to close the question: I care about my time spent helping people being lost). I'm not bringing anything anymore to a "community" that is so prone on wasting their user's time.
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#virtualenv
So, was Genghis Khan a victim or an oppressor?

Try reframing from an oppressor-victim category matrix to simply co-competitors because that is evolution's perspective.

Moreover, the oppressor-victim matrix provides competitive benefits to its promoters because it induces complacency in those who adopt it as correct.
The ultimate incentive to contribute is that maintaining your own separate fork of development (and backporting/merging upstream changes) eventually becomes too challenging for most organizations.

Now, for an organization operating at China scale, it's possible that a fork could be sustained (so, the "China Syndrome" becomes the "China Fork"), but it's likely still not an optimal strategy, and for mundane areas there could still be substantial leak-back.

So long as changes aren't distributed "outside the organization" (quotes applied in context of defining "organization" relative to a Communist state in which nominally all property is State property), legal GPL code release requirements aren't triggered. Though you and what nuclear-tipped army plan on enforcing that against Beijing is of course another matter.
We are slaves of electricity
What are these core principles?
Seconded. I am leaning towards Angular, but would love to hear from people that have used all three.
Why must it be non-fiction? I'll stick to non-fiction since you asked, but I think its an odd limit to put in place in this discussion.

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In my opinion the essential book for anyone interested in science and technology would be How To Win Friends and Influence People. By far the most important book. By far. I really can't overstate the importance of learning to interact with other people in polite, persuasive and friendly ways.

In my four years at an engineering university (RPI) the amount of people I ran in to that couldn't relate to others in a meaningful way and carry a normal conversation blew my mind. It was surreal. And I don't know what percent of them were aware of this but I would guess it can't be too high.

The number one thing I wish I saw more of in engineers isn't an understanding of other sciences or deep domain knowledge. It's consideration. Plain, pure consideration for other people and how they might feel about things.

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The Selfish Gene would perhaps be a close second.

Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond is also a good read for people in STEM fields.

The Emperor of All Maladies, a book about the history of cancer. Extremely fascinating read, and accessible regardless of your level of biology knowledge.
Anatomy of a Press Release
That isn't the takeaway I got. It was that Setuptools is broken, but so is pip and distutils2. Pip lost very worthwhile functionality that exists in setuptools, namely binary eggs.
Hey .. just wondering how the documentation is going? I'm an avid MOAI user and would love to know more about whats planned in the immediate future for the doc catchup ..
It takes a youthfully incandescent naivete† to believe that your future employment prospects blunt any risk from a failed venture.

You can accept the risk that your savings will dwindle to zero; you can in fact stipulate that the chances of that happening are 99.9%. You can tell yourself, probably truthfully, that the life cost of zeroing out your savings is minimal, because you will almost certainly be as (or maybe more) employable when you finish your venture.

What you will not ever get back from a failed venture is the time you sunk into it. You will, I am fairly certain, come to realize that lost time is the worst kind of loss; your time is not only effectively money, but also opportunity.

Pick what you're working on carefully. Every startup founder in the history of startup founders has told themselves, "even if this thing fails, it will be a great experience". As someone who has failed at a startup: failure is indeed educational. But at 2-3 years of the most productive, least encumbered years of your life, the tuition is expensive; it's a rip-off. Don't buy it.

† Ironically, Yoskovitz appears to be exactly my age.
I'm not saying it didn't have a positive effect on the people who were able to participate. What I'm saying is that it showed a positive impact for a carefully chosen group of people who met a very narrowly defined set of characteristics. There's nothing in the way it was done that provides any specific insights into people at or below the poverty level, what keeps them there or what can be done to provide help improving their situation. All it served to do was to highlight that smart people in a bad situation want to learn and are improved for having learned, the same as smart people in a not-bad situation. I called it a "feel good" piece because the only meaningful conclusion it reaches (because the narrow selection constraints prevented it from being broadly applicable) is that poor people are people, too and look how great it is we helped some.
Not really. Moustagram only lets you add the same mustache to still pictures. Stachify uses the face detection API in iOS 5 to add mustaches in real-time. You can also add staches to existing photos if you want. Stachify also doesn't require you to login with Facebook or Twitter.
One reason is that many distros are very slow to update the versions of these packages. It's much easier to get up-to-date packages from language-specific package managers.
Camus of course falls into the latter category.

"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."

-Ernest Hemingway
Yeah, but that assumes you have empty chassis sitting around. Besides, if you're shipping 100TB that's not just one disk.
How come this made it to the front page of HN ??
How to Learn: More Humility, Less Video
Possibly the most useful app ever created. Evernote, take a back seat. Kudos!
Get catastrophic insurance if you have the cushion for the full deductible.

When I quit Cisco to work on my startup I was shocked at how much was coming out of my paycheck that I simply didn't notice. When my wife and I shopped around for individual insurance we realized that we could get very decent insurance for a fraction of that price. We opted for the even cheaper catastrophic insurance. Even though we hit the full deductible last year because we had a baby we're still ahead where we'd be paying the premium for my Cisco insurance.

Believe it or not, if you're even somewhat healthy individual insurance is not as expensive as you're led to believe. Or, perhaps, group insurance is more expensive than you've been led to believe :)
You seem to be new to all this "centralized control" thing... Here's your complimentary link

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-malware-was-si...

Then you can proceed searching for ssl cert fiasco...
For people interested in the concept, there are also a few Chrome extensions that do this to images you see in your normal browsing sessions:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/khaoakmndhjandiaaa...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gnmngbknombiopoggi...
Of all the ways that municipalities and hospitals and whatnot get cheated, banks skimming a little interest is among the least interesting. What would have been interesting is a nice shiny pie chart showing where all the graft goes, but that would relegate this particular scandal to a sideshow.
I was going to recommend "2001: A space Odyssey". But non-fiction might rule that one out ?
Interesting, but I think this needs further analysis. That bypass mechanism must also comply with the “no additional restricions” aspect of the licence.
Nice project. Are you planning on open source it?
I don't see how. Flame managed to create signed malware with an MD5 prefix attack... but MD5 had known problems for over 10 years.

And Flame is widely thought to have been produced by a government intelligence service -- it still takes massive talent and CPU time to do something like that.

I'm not aware of any MS private key ever being leaked or cracked.

There will be weaknesses in specific UEFI implementations, but I don't think they'll be able to produce anything general purpose.
Also, consider training time. I doubt babies are recognizing 20k objects at 15% success rate after just a few days. Though to really compare that, the speed of the brain vs the speed of the supercomputer has to be normalized for, and training data and network size has to be similar as well of course for any real comparison.
My guess is that eventually (a lot of) web sites will become more like games, where the highest quality experience is achieved by maximally utilizing the amount of resources available.

So in that sense we could expect many websites' bandwidth usage to follow Nielsen's law [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980405.html]
>Just like you should not pass strings in place of numbers, in accounting software of all things. Why can't just everbody get it absolutely right the first time?

Because the input is a text box? Text is, after all, the way for people to input data into a computer.
Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It
I really enjoyed The Most Human Human by Brian Christian. It's about Turing tests and The Loebner Prize.
I'm not a large scale ML person, and not intending to take away from the achievement of the team in the OP, but experiments in large scale, unsupervised learning have been going for a long time (even using the autoencoder approach). When you think about it, large scale requires unsupervised...

Here is an old example with hundreds of millions of records and instances:

http://aaaipress.org/Papers/KDD/1998/KDD98-028.pdf

Both authors are now with Google.

Also, people here may not be as up to speed on the state of the art in face rec as they think they are. It's not as much of an unsolved problem as it was even 10 years ago.
Oh we're having a quote smackdown, are we?

"If you're going to say something, bloody say it."

-calinet6
Code for America Apps for Detroit challenge
Submit a ticket.
So I have a complicated, license-encumbered mechanism for doing what I could do more simply and flexibly with small optimized PNGs?

Sign me up!
Awesome. Not much more to say. Thanks
I use github extensively - very good suggestion! Thanks
You're the guy behind PersonalMBA? Awesome, I have the book and I love the site. I haven't put as much time into it as I should, as I've been too busy with the nitty-gritty, day-to-day "stuff" of doing a startup.

I do fully intend to get through the Personal MBA stuff eventually; but right now, I'm spending more time with the stuff from Steve Blank, Eric Ries, Ash Maurya, etc. :-)
Summer? But the winter is starting here in the South Hemisphere!

Sorry. I couldn't resist
A workaround is to edit the registry to make the virtualenv available as an install target:

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201007/installing_python_packa...
Probably not. It's more of an exercise in learning Clojure - a language I've heard lots of good things about.

I find that I really get a feel for a language only if I'm building something in it that's actually useful (as opposed to just following along with Hello World and Factorial primers).
Binary eggs aren't a good reason to trash pip, which otherwise works great. He really didn't say how distutils2 was broken, just expressed some sort of prejudice against it.
quote smackdown or quote snackdown?

“It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.”

-Julia Child
ShopSocially Launches Its Platform, Scores An Extra $550K In Funding
Two points:

1. There is a difference between not buying and demanding change. If I demand that you stop selling obscene t-shirts, or threaten to stop buying any of your t-shirts, I'm infringing your freedom of speech.

2. I don't see where anybody said that Citi shouldn't be allowed to do what they did. But that doesn't change it from being a form of censorship.
Show HN: JS MVC comparison with no todo list
packaging hasn't been proven to be any better. It's just shiny and new. That recommendation is somewhat irresponsible.
I try. I guess this is the hardest part.
If you're interested in fitness and exercise, read "The First 20 Minutes" by Gretchen Reynolds (http://www.amazon.com/The-First-20-Minutes-Surprising/dp/159...). It's somewhat a review of the current state of scientific thought in exercise (tons of studies are cited throughout the book)
Android Developer site has been updated
The lowest (or highest, in this case) bid was also enforced in this case. I totally agree with your point about small purchases, I've also dealt with it in the situation where you could walk down to Staples and buy something for $200, but we'd spend $300 because that was the best offer from an approved vendor.
You sir, are correct.

People ignore that this has nothing to do with desktops, but the newly forming tablet (or whatever is to came) market.

How many touchpads run webos now? Heck craigslist is filled with $50 offers to install Android there.

MS knows they will heavily subside their new hardware to kill competition, just like the do with xobox, and the last thing they want is Android or something there.

Safeboot never took off because ms never had a reason to push it before. As another post here correctly say, they own desktops already with no threat in sight.