skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are confusing things.

First and foremost you don't need evidence to look for evidence. A hypothesis is enough.

Secondly, there is evidence that IQ is at least in part genetic. There is no other way to explain geniuses, child prodigies, and mentally retarded individuals whose environments vary greatly.
To some degree, yes.
> I feel that this is intended to deliberately mislead those who don't read the entire article.

Fixed that for you.

Keep in mind that "reading only the headlines" is a common speed-up-your-life piece of advice. Tim Ferriss, for instance, specifically advises this. It's not really the readership's fault that the Mail is exploiting this.
Wow, that web-site is down, this couldn't possibly be more ironic.
> If the blog author wanted to make some kind of point he should have included MUCH longer graphs, not just half a year.

They do, in the "looked like" link of the second paragraph (http://sargasso.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/hadcrut4_a.jpg). But that doesn't change the fact that they're beating on DM for misrepresenting the data, rather than making the argument that 16 years to too short.
I wonder how much of that audience actually aligns with the Mail's political values. My partner goes there every day for laughs, but is so far to the left the stereotypical Mail reader would probably want her arrested for treason and deported ;-)
EE announce UK 4G pricing
Yes. You are responsible for replication, failover, disaster recovery, etc.
I believe they are having issues with SSL, are you using HTTPS Everywhere by any chance?
The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 12.10 (Apache2, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
A comforting hope - those of us who desire freedom will be the first settlers of Space.
I think that's an optimistic prediction for a game of professional quality, done by a single person. I reckon most of the work is edge cases, art & sound, tweaking, bug fixing, not working on the generic engine.

You could save time by doing this though, as you say. I'm leaning more towards the idea of reusing code and trusting other peoples engines at this point. But we've all made our own engines and, as other posters have said, this is the guys hobby, and most likely a labour of love.
Selective amnesia? Here's another and more important snip from the article.

The minutes of the 31 March meeting, though, reveal that at no point did any of the scientists say that there was "no danger" of a big quake. "A major earthquake in the area is unlikely but cannot be ruled out," Boschi said. Selvaggi is quoted as saying that "in recent times some recent earthquakes have been preceded by minor shocks days or weeks beforehand, but on the other hand many seismic swarms did not result in a major event". Eva added that "because L'Aquila is in a high-risk zone it is impossible to say with certainty that there will be no large earthquake". Summing up the meeting, Barberi said, "there is no reason to believe that a swarm of minor events is a sure predictor of a major shock". All the participants agreed that buildings in the area should be monitored urgently, to assess their capacity to sustain a major shock.
Err, nonsense. IMHO.

I've just moved from Perth, Australia, where it is pleasant enough almost every morning to just to throw on shorts and a top and go for it.

I'm now in the UK. Getting a face-full of road spray and having to manage your temperature (ugh it's cold, no wait now I'm moving it's hot) and try not to get drenched in either rain or just condensed sweat is frakking NASTY.
Ironically the site's SSL is not configured correctly... Doesn't work when using the "HTTPS Everywhere" extension unless you manually change it to not opt for HTTPS on the site.
If I were a grammar nazi, I'd be quite irate.
The point of using IaaS is to outsource as least some of the responsibilities.
I'd love an informed electorate, but it would be a very tricky thing to try and define whether a particular story is informing the electorate or not, and to whose definition.
With a one-line pitch like "HIGH-PERFORMANCE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REAL-TIME WEB AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS", what could possibly go wrong?

No, I don't hate Joyent. I can't even figure out what they offer. And I don't see "Python" or "Postgres" or "Redis" in their tech stack page, so what would reddit (a Python / Postres / Redis site) want with them? They seem to be mostly node.js / Mongo, which is a nice tech stack but isn't the one reddit is built on.

Clicking around their dev docs seems to suggest you can install your own stuff on their "SmartMachines" (are those Linux VMs?), but there's a heavy node.js bias to the docs.
"You might be saving 11x on an Azure instance, but your ops time and staffing requirements will cost more than that."

Could you elaborate on why you think this is true? It seems to me like Microsoft baseless propaganda from last decade.
> The iOS version of Skype has no "quit" option at all.

Double-press the iPhone button, find Skype icon, tap and hold until it stars to wobble, tap (x). Or am I missing something?
I still think the best to hope for is that only the individuals with the actual devices are able to look at the data. Can you imagine future potential employees being able to type your name into a web page, getting an image of you, and then through the magic of facial recognition, seeing a long list of geo tagged photos of you going about your normal daily life? Who you associate with, where you go, etc.

We shouldn't support this project or projects like this unless we get full assurances that the privacy issues have been tackled appropriately. At the moment, we don't know how the encryption is done, so as far as we should be concerned, there is none. No encryption.

As far as I'm concerned, with the knowledge we currently have of the project, if this project becomes big, this is worse than for example: The government installing CCTV on every street corner, which automatically uploads data to a central database that they can peruse at will. These cameras will be in and on private property as well.
Historically, running Ruby on Joyent was an exercise in frustration. Heroku isn't only Ruby these days, but operating as a stable ruby platform is still a requirement I think.

Among other things: Solaris threading libs with crashy bugs when you pop a new thread open. Took quite a while to figure that one out.
Did they really only make three episodes? I quite liked them, though.
Solaris not Linux.
Steve Jobs: What are the best stories about people randomly meeting Steve Jobs?
I 've been using their vps for years, and they didn't let down (apart from less than a handful of reboots, the uptime was basically around 400 days). The thing is they kept their prices unchanged for 4 years which is odd.
both are correct, "were" is more precise and formal
Most MSDN subscriptions come with perpetual use licenses for the content acquired during the subscription term. More to the point, Microsoft does not reserve the right to terminate their licenses without cause, and in case of alleged cause, they have dispute resolution processes in place, up to and including binding arbitration. I'm not sure about their consumer cloud services, however.
No, but it is the paper's fault.
My new startup, Uptano (https://uptano.com), is a cloud provider (still hurts me to write "cloud").

..and we've had 100% uptime in our short run so far. Our systems are highly redundant and as decoupled as possible. Still, I wouldn't for one second claim that I, or anyone else, could do better than AWS on reliability.

AWS does a great job on reliability. I do think EBS is a terrible technology that should die in a fiery pit, but they do a damn good job of keeping everything up.

If they really do believe their 99.9999% claim, I'd love to see them make a bet. How about Reddit gets $1M if they move and it falls below that?
Yep, same for me. Delicious irony in my opinion
I thought there was a fundamental licensing incompatibility preventing proprietary drivers from implementing KMS?
I'm definitely leftist politically, but I make an active effort to consider alternative points of view. I read center-right newspapers (usually the Times, occasionally the Telegraph) because I don't like existing in an echo chamber - and I feel like it's far easier to be manipulated if you're reading a news source whose viewpoint you usually agree with.

While I often disagree with these newspapers, I still generally respect them - election time excluded, where many papers lose their sense of virtue. I respect them because they respect me enough to limit their attempts to use my emotions against me.

This is not the case for the Daily Mail. An example (one of many) that crystallised this for me, from way back in my youth:

Europe's switch to the Euro was underway, and the time to switch to euros in cash machines/as public currency. The Daily Mail, being very anti-Euro, had to paint this as a dismal failure. It weighed heavily on the fact that people were having to queue to get their new notes. It then followed up with a passage along the lines of 'At [some square in Germany], where Hitler's troops once marched, people queued around street corners to access the new currency'

Now, I get it. They didn't like the Euro. Quite sensibly, in fact - conservatives in the UK deserve a fair bit of praise for keeping us out of that mess. This doesn't make the quoted passage an acceptable means of delivering news, though.

I'm not sneering at the Daily Mail because it is right wing, but because its writing style is that of a manipulative propaganda rag. Personally, I think propaganda rags deserve sneering at.
+1 ... X protocol remoting is amazing.
TCP relies on lost packages for congestion control.
They improve their bandwidth by removing that control.
I really wonder what happens when you deploy something
like that in scale.

My guess is that if you don't implement this carefully,
it might actually cause congestion problems under certain circumstances. Regardless, getting a reliable connection
for yourself by tunnelling and FEC is nice.
I'd rather see someone create really, really disruptive technology like a "personal privacy bubble" I can activate when I choose to. Something that will auto-blurr and auto-jam all video/audio. THAT is something people would like. "Want to film me? I opt out!"
After TextDrive's lifetime hosting encounters, I'd never trust Joyent again, cloud or non-cloud.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669
Seems like her account has been opened up again for some reason . . .
http://goo.gl/MZVzZ (Norwegian website digi.no via google translate)
If anyone would like a lifelogging camera right now, you can purchase a Vicon Revue (rebadged/locked version of Microsoft's SenseCam):

http://www.viconrevue.com/product.html

It has a "privacy button" that stops it from taking photos for a few minutes and records other information along with the images (like temperature, for example). Also, all of the images and data are stored locally on the device.

Another lifelogging camera, with better specs, about to hit the market (Nov 2012 according to the register/buy page) is Autographer, from the Oxford Metrics Group:

http://www.autographer.com/

They are advertising 8GB of internal storage, so it would seem that they're storing the images locally too, though the device has bluetooth.
But nobody reads it (relative to the Daily Mail and The Sun) and it just doesn't seem to matter in terms of the political debate. That is why it doesn't get so much opprobrium - it just doesn't matter.

The Daily Mail and The Sun can mount massive campaigns, ruin careers of politicians and swing large amounts of votes (or at least that is the perception). All the Mirror readers vote Labour whatever they say (not necessarily true but perception amongst politicians).

August readership - Daily Mirror 1.1M, Daily Mail 1.9M, Sun 2.5M Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/table/2012/sep/20/abcs-natio...
X11 is fine on machines from the 1990s, with less power than a low end smartphone.
Ceefax service to end after 38 years on BBC
You probably just re-invented what the brain may be doing as our "memories fade": re-compressing (and culling) to free up space, with storage surprisingly expensive. :)
Don't hate the provider, hate the meme:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/overly-attached-girlfriend
With the lifetime account fiasco still ongoing [1], they should probably shut up.

[1] Joyent/Textdrive sold lifetime shared hosting accounts for a one time payment in the beginning. Those accounts would exist "as long as we exists". A couple of months back they sent an email that they are "discontinuing" lifetime accounts. After uproar from the community they offered refunds. Many people (including me) agreed to the refund, but then they decided to make another 180 degree turn, not paying out the refund. Instead they are now spinning off a new "Textdrive" that is supposed to "take over" the lifetime customers. No details about funding/general outlook/etc. of this new company has been provided so far. Questions to this end are shrugged off as "everything is perfect, just trust us, ..."

Incidentally, the new Textdrive Forum (discuss.textdrive.com) seems to be down at the moment...
You mean like for when you go to the adult book store?
I thought they would be a replacement for EC2, and not a Heruko-competitor. They provide virtual servers, and not application stacks.

I test drove them with regards to Picc.it, during the beginning of the year and they have a solid stack and great support. They are a little pricey though, so I decided to go with bare metal instead.
I'm with you on the morality of it.
Uh, no, this is how about switching to the main supporters of node.js would immediately remove a problem that the #1 vps provider can't handle.
Super simple Accordion using only CSS - Look ma no JS
Yes, I mean the global scientific consensus and the historical data showing a constant climb is in reality a matter of using common sense correctly, and has nothing to do with the underlying matter being far too complex for a PHD thesis or 1 line correlations between single individuals.

Its tiring to have to go through old posts and historical data to tease apart the points and show why scientists in the field of weather and climate have reached a consensus that climate change is real.

As for you particular assertion that its a PR push - please realize that flagging support for the nuclear industry amongst the public at large remains and is largely independent of global warming fears.

I mean, we are pushing solar, wind and renewable power around the world more than we ever have, and a LOT more than nuclear.

Heck just look at the boom/bust in silicon prices a while back, the constant efforts to reach grid parity through silicon, and the massive solar farms that are being put up.
> only humans of the female variety can come up with shit like that

Cut that garbage out.
Then what is this 'infrastructure' that they're providing you with?
Maybe I use the favorite button differently/wrong but I always use it as kind of like a "read it later" button.

I store tweets there that contain links/comments for me to refer back to later - I've never considered it being used as a "Like" button.
"Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): The server refused the connection."

The page is down.
The iOS app also drains my battery by being always on. It was so irritating I deleted it entirely.
Why the hardware? Seriously?

Try walking around all day with a full-size smartphone hanging as a necklace. People are going to think you're crazy.

Miniaturization is the name of the game.
That's a terrible user experience, especially for something that could be a setting.
The post by Cringely provides no references, which I find odd. I found a Bloomberg wire article [1] about the judgement, but nothing at all about the alleged subsequent retribution.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/technology/23IBM.html
USPTO invalidates Apple's "rubber-banding" patent asserted against Samsung
Rejoice!
Apparently they're having some SSL issues, try disabling "https everywhere" or any other similar browser addons I presume you're running!
Lol, people still buy adult books in stores? How about all those CCTV camera's? The camera's in stores can even tell if you're male/female and your general emotion (according to the lines in your face).

Question is: Do I even have the right not to be filmed? Somehow I think not... Apple did file a patent to disable iPhone video recording using lasers (to be used at concerts).
Autodesk presents 'magic finger' input from any surface
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Why not sue them?
If you're with them in the US right now and you want to keep your job, yeah, probably best not to mess. This is because it is pretty much stated policy to scale the company back in that area, in favour of building the company in 'growth' markets where people are cheaper and closer to the action.

There's not enough growth in the US to support the revenue requirements of the behemoth, and as US employees are both expensive and easy to get rid of, they tend to be the first to suffer.

(compared to, say, EU employees who are also expensive but harder to ditch).
Made very minor changes..

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ezxdm
Down for me too. Rather embarrassing if I do say so.
> so by not permitting Blacks into the priesthood, they were basically not permitted in the church at all.

That is a wild and incorrect jump to make. Why do Mormons go to church? What are you referencing the physical buildings used or something else?

The thing is, often people will say that Mormons are racist towards blacks until 1978 and if you ask why they usually don't know. Sometimes, they'll reference the Priesthood and if you ask what that is, they usually don't know.

From your comment, unless your answers to my questions indicate otherwise, I would say you do not understand. There is so much that people do not understand in regards to this topic yet they feel valid to proclaim others as being racist.
Yeah their Datasheet says it supports Python.
Probably because most unix users just use console ssh or web GUIs for remote access.
Joyent is some former Sun guys who are still committed to "the OS is a differentiator". They use Illumos, their fork of OpenSolaris...

I'm pretty sure python, postgres, and redis all run on Solaris, but Joyent's value add is NOT at the application layer, but in OS features that facilitate application workloads better. Their SmartMachines (or zones), ZFS, dtrace.. Solaris is an epic environment to develop in.

I probably only know of a few other OS's that are as powerful (IOS XR, OnTap, Linux..), and only corner cases are more enjoyable to work with (BeOS, plan9, lispmachine).

Their difficulty in messaging is probably around not wanting to be labelled "post-Sun", but cloud! internet! not oracle! You should think of them as providing an OS as a service.
And this is an important distinction to you, and it could be construed as misleading, but this is still a lovely article and I learned a little more about the voyagers.
Or a bar. Or a church. Or a sexual health clinic. Or a comic book convention. Or for a run. Or on a date. Or sunbathing on a beech.
Don't work for IBM.

I'm not one to normally subscribe to the 'if you don't like the working conditions don't work there' line of reasoning, especially in the US where unions are so weak. But in tech, eh, we have options.
Sure if you're an enterprise I would see that.
So, I'm already sending random strings, but there's a few things that I know are just wrong and broken about my current thing, and I'm wondering what the appropriate way to fix it is.

1. It doesn't limit how many tokens you try to send out; I'm not entirely convinced this is an issue yet, since these tokens are 256 bit, so you'd have to create quite a few before random attempts would start working...
2. The tokens do not expire.

Again, I know both of these are wrong, but I'm not sure what the appropriate way to deal with them is.

Limiting [1], i.e. the number of outstanding tokens, sounds like a bad idea, because then an attacker could lock the legitimate user out from being able to reset their password (barring a support call). Doing statistics on how many password reset requests are being made, per host and per credential, seems more efficient.

Adding a simple 24h lockout to [2] seems like a good idea, and it happens to be ridiculously simple to implement, too :)

Oh, by the way: tptacek, I sent you an e-mail weeks ago about a Pycon talk -- did you happen to get it perchance?
I don't mean to offend you but Matasano is probably one of the worse names I've encountered in the past few years. My thought process:

1) Sounds like Monsanto, do they do agriculture? Sounds boring.

2) Sounds Latin American, is that their origin / market they're focusing on? Sounds boring.

So I think there are a lot of names where you guys could've avoided those 2 problems. I still don't think of Matasano as a high-tech company. I think of a mexican farmer that's trying to sell me grain.
There is a "sign out" option in iOS skype which does what you're after.

http://i.imgur.com/uOn3Q.png
And in the times when I can torrent a whole library of culture-defining books (whose authors mostly either passed away or no longer care), the book selling industry should reconsider the question: what exactly are they selling? What is their place to contribute to the society? Is it only about pushing vampire books by living authors while withholding vampire books by deceased authors?
Offtopic, but the flash on that page slows my browser down to a crawl. C'mon, guys, this is 2012, you can't write a tag cloud in JavaScript?
'At [some square in Germany], where Hitler's troops once marched, people queued around street corners to access the new currency'

Given their (ancient) history of supporting fascism, there's a small part of me that wonders what tone of voice that was actually written in.
I'm using it yes, disabled and it worked, thanks.
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Ah, thanks. I misread. I thought the OP as complaining about wanting to be alone with someone, rather than analyzing what they did earlier with the person.
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Whoever wrote that abomination of a sentence needs to go back to school and learn English again.
Virtues of Minimum Marketable Releases
The Mormon faith was founded in 1830s New York (shortly after slavery was abolished in that state), long before efforts to redefine racial relations and blacks as humans. It isn't very fair of you to project your 19th century politics back on the creators of a <200 year old religion.
BlueGriffon EPUB Edition just launched (by CSS WG co-chairman)
"lifetime" "unlimited" "forever" etc products should always been looked at sceptically for that reason. Anything that is either finite or requires up-keep cannot be offered on these terms, it is just impossible.

I actually avoid unlimited products on purpose because I think a lie is a bad way to start doing business together. Be it web-hosting, broadband, or anything else. I would prefer they just be up front and then we both know where we stand (no ambiguity).
If a company is actually stupid enough to say "If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down" then I immediately lose all interest in working with that company. Childish and they obviously have no appreciation for how hard it is to properly run a hosting company.
Mozilla Popcorn Maker:

http://mozillapopcorn.org/popcorn-maker/
Yep. While it has it good points, it is never going to replace x11 on my laptop since it requires compositing. And i more or less had to turn off compositing on my thinkpad edge since it reduced the akku lifetime drastically and was very noisy.
Ha, ha, only serious.
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There are quite a few companies working on this it seems: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/405968/lights-camera-ja... or http://news.cnet.com/2100-1009-5074852.html

And a non-portable options is for purchase http://www.jammer-store.com/uv30-uhf-vhf-jammer-blocker.html (no connection with this site).