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I find reading articles like this exhausting. I've got to imagine being a criminal/sketchball while on the road in whatever country you're in is equally exhausting.

Is it not just possible to travel abroad, carry proper documentation, a bit of cash, and enjoy yourself? Does every situation really require constant vigilance to knowing when to run or not, how to make eye-contact, when to make excuses, etc.?

Perhaps I'm superbly naive. And perhaps I've just not seen enough of the world, but I've gotten along just fine without having to resort to cloak-and-dagger behavior everywhere I go. Sure, checkpoints happen in some places. If you're pulled over, you should have a legit passport and a few dollars if you're asked to pay. But only if you're asked.

I feel like some people ask for trouble wherever they go. McAfee seems like one of those people.

Am I nuts?
I've found memrise.com pretty helpful for learning basic vocabulary (although I'm using it for French and Italian not Spanish).
Boundaries - Gary Bernhardt - RubyConf 2012
Exactly! Many of us who have pulled all nighters (or very late nights) know that not only does the quality of our product decrease, but the quality of our lives.

I enjoy what I'm doing less, my body and mind begin to feel strange. What's worse, is that I'll likely spend more time sleeping than I would have had I gone to bed, and I'll wake up at a non-optimal time to boot.

In almost all cases, I find it far better to hand in something a day late than on time and full of errors.
Counterpoint: New York has a thriving black market in smuggled cigarettes.
I find that if I step back from the project when I'm sick, not only do I recover faster, but I often think of novel ways to solve a problem (or realize the solution was under my nose) by nature of taking some time away from the screen.
Great response, thanks. Incidentally, this is a trap I find myself falling into over and over. Too much decoupling, too many moving parts. It is hard to find that line between good design and over-engineering.
Live coding: writing code to make music to drink beer to
That is not entirely accurate. The Science paper described how to (pre)train a deep belief net by training a sequence of RBMs. Contrastive divergence for RBM training (and more generally products of experts) was described in 2002 in "Training Products of Experts by Minimizing Contrastive Divergence" http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/nccd.pdf
Haven't read the paper, but just based on the article I'd be curious to see the affect on blockbusters compared to say, their rotten tomatoes scores (or whatever). It'd be interesting to see whether the opposite of the reasoning applied for the smaller movies people may not have heard of ("I saw xxxxx, it was great you should see it") applies to the blockbusters with a lot of publicity and promotion behind them ("Yeah, I downloaded xxxxx, it was dreadful..").
Given that they have unilateral control as to what can be installed on non-jailbroken devices, that's rather a cop-out. Apple does have a complete monopoly on content that can be purchased for use with iOS devices. If you don't like B&N's policies, you can very often find another retailer with better policies, but this is not at all the case if you are looking for software compatible with iOS.
I agree that it deserves to be upvoted for those reasons. I just don't think that's necessarily the primary reason it has been upvoted. Examining the "would this be ranked this high if it were about penis hacking instead?" question is productive because it addresses that.
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I was involved in the speech recognition work mentioned in the article and I led the team that won the Merck contest if anyone has any questions about those things. I also spend some time answering any machine learning question I feel qualified to answer at metaoptimize.com/qa
I would think some sort of hand-squeeze-o-meter would be ideal.
These articles pop up all the time, as if people hadn't had the foresight to realize their brain function decreases when they don't sleep. Sleep deprivation is a tool which allows you to sacrifice some degree of brain functioning (different for each person) to gain in other areas like meeting hard deadlines, or taking advantage of your programmer flow state, or the positive feeling you get knowing you grinded away at a task non-stop until completion.
I'll let the rest of the comments talk about how this isn't a pivot. I'm more concerned that entrepreneurs are worried about pivoting at all. It is almost as if they are planning pivots in advance. How fucking stupid can you get? Sure, successful startups do it...but they do it because find out they are going in the wrong direction...not because the act of executing a pivot makes you successful.
doh, not very carefully worded now that I'm re-reading my answer, you're right of course. Well, at least we're slowly converging on the right answer over several comments :)
The police setup checkpoint happened to me once in Brazil. They let me pass that time because they had their hands already full of drivers to "deal" with.
There's a valid point in this, but the article seems to miss it when he says "In fact, if I hear the caller telling me personal details about myself, I hang up even faster."

On the contrary, that's perfectly valid. They've already partially validated that they're talking to you. The attack scenario of stealing identities by getting banks to call someone while you intercept the phone call isn't plausible.

Back in 2008, Wells Fargo called me up and asked me to verify myself via a similar system. I refused and called the number on the back of my credit card and identified myself to their fraud department that way.

This year, same scenario (suspicious purchases), but this time the fraud department just asks if they are speaking to me and then asks me whether I recently bought two tickets to China and a new car stereo. So learning has occurred.
Hemingway said that you should stop writing for the day when you know what the next thing is.
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Love this, someone needs to make a movie about this guy.
Ask HN: how to use my phone in Korea
Hoping you guys can help my sister out. Shes in the army and about to be stationed in Korea.

She has a Samsung Galaxy S II on t-mobile. What is the best way to use the phone in Korea? She doesnt plan to stick with t-mobile.
Sadly the sustained value women can get from a sex toy is so much more than anything a bloke can briefly get. This article deserves to make it to the top for the hackery alone. I doubt if a tube of lube would be as worthy. Hopefully there will a surge of women into the technical fields now they realise they can hack their own sex toys because everything else seems to have failed to attract and retain them in numbers. If they are all like this one it can only be a good thing.
Deep learning is not boosting at all. Deep learning is about composing trainable modules. Adding a layer f(x) to a layer g(x) to get h(x) = f(g(x)). Boosting creates a final classifier that is a weighted sum of the base classifiers, or something like h(x) = a * f(x) + b * g(x). Composition is what Professor Hinton means when he says "re-represent the input" and other similar phrases.
Right now there isn't a way for users to submit libraries, it's all done by me. I'll probably add a suggestions form, but if you have any suggestions now, let me know!
Here's the thing. In current broken model, there is a bank employee who has the time to call the customer up. When calling back, if the call routing is implemented efficiently, the same employee will answer the call. There will be no need to wait for the usual customer service.
>Can't it be that people upvoted the article because sexy subject+technology is double win? Can't it be because i am actually jealous i haven't hacked my penis yet?

Yeah, it can be. I just doubt that it is. Sure, that may be the case for some people, but I'm talking about majority behavior, not universal behavior.

>And i'm not even a feminist.

That is apparent.

>Now your theory about guilt and nerdgirl fantasies... i think you 're really reaching there

Go to reddit and look at posts that fulfill the nerd-girl archetype. Now read the sleazy comments. We don't have those here, but that's because we have strong standards as a community for what is acceptable to say in comment threads, not because there aren't a lot of people here who would post those comments in the absence of those standards.
By that reasoning, we should work to close small independent stores because it's more efficient to deliver and retrieve products to one central location like Walmart.
I don't agree that their experience is equally as statistically insignificant as yours. To me, a company should be providing an acceptable level of service to all of their customers, and they must have systems in place to make sure that huge blunders don't happen, even in rare cases.

Your experience doesn't prove that Google always offers good support. The occasional stories we hear about Google are enough to prove that they sometimes offer terrible support.
Ask HN: Where do you print premium letterpresses business cards
I want to update my business cards with a letterpressed design and some premium quality paper. Can you suggest me which service to use?
buy a prepaid chip or get a service once you're over there
And yet on it goes.
A Twitter law would be unwise
Why 'slow light' might just save the Internet
I'll preface this by mentioning that I am not the level of power-user you are (I don't rely on my OS for my job) therefore your specific needs are far different than mine.

Linux Mint has surprised me with v14 and Cinnamon. I used MATE in v13 and never thought I'd try the forsaken GNOME3 again. However with the new update I figured I'd give it a shot.

It's actually better, for my use case, than MATE. The workspace switching is very nice, the hotcorner for workspace quick view is great on my laptop, but it's configurable and shortcuts still work fine.
Everything runs like it did in Gnome 2/MATE but it feels more modern.

All the while Mint is making Linux (well, Debian/Ubuntu) even more user friendly and cohesive.

I never want to have iOS or Microsoft's equivalent to be my primary OS. Leave that for my pocket. But I also don't want to roll my own distro (I tried Arch over the summer and ran into too many roadblocks with my laptop). Mint isn't finding a middle ground. It's just what I want.
And while we're at it, fun fact:

There's a toy called the vstroker, that's basically an endcap to the fleshlight for doing accelerometer readings. (http://www.vstroker.com, NSFW). It also uses a CC25XX radio chip, and comes with a USB dongle that's basically the reference implementation. So, since these two talk on the same controls, you should be able to take the dongle from the vstroker and the lelo toy, and have full USB computer control.

Boom. Teledildonics capabilities, using a combination of toys that are (vaguely) gender incompatible.
Please don't. You're already behind the times with touch and gesture support. Focus on that. Windows 8 may not have gotten it completely right, but they are at least on the right side of history.
Can SOA liberate the cloud?
“Gangnam Style” Become The Most Popular YouTube Video Ever With Over 805M Views
I love Cinnamon[0] a fork of GNOME3.

[0] http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
But there are plenty of 1-off or small run PCB manufacturers, which will surely be higher quality than anything produced by some 3d printing experiments.
Heard about that. Isn't it the thing you use to move Emacs frames around?
Wow, this is easily the strangest top post I have ever seen on hacker news. I actually can't stop laughing. I guess it's because most people just don't think about technology and sex in the same thought unless you are thinking about internet porn. An interesting read no less.
Sure, bribing cops at traffic stops is common. My dad lives in Colombia (he's Colombian) and I was visiting him there last year and go back often.

We were once stopped by a traffic cop for "passing in a no-passing zone" (passing is a necessity of traffic there, because many freeways are typically one lane in each direction, and sugar cane trucks are common and drive at 20mph). Basically just stopped to extract some cash.

The way it plays in that area of Colombia is, the driver asks if there's anything he can do for the officer, maybe he can pay for the ticket on the spot. The officer then asks you to pop your trunk so he can "check it out". Both of you get behind the car, you slip him 50,000 pesos (~$25, a very generous bribe), shake hands on go on your way.

My dad's excuse isn't that the cost of the actual ticket is too high--it probably isn't much more than the bribe--just that it's too inconvenient to pay it. Bureaucracy in Colombia is as byzantine as you might imagine, and you'll probably end up bribing the bureaucrats to process your papers faster anyway.

Now if I was a regular white traveler going through Colombia, I probably wouldn't even be stopped at all--the police know they can't hassle you in the long term like they can a local, they know even if you get a ticket you won't know how to pay it, and they have easier people to target.
After everyone was feeling stuffed and mellow in the house, I brought out the old PS2 and hooked it up to the projector and the stereo, then put in Rez. (Has been called "Tron on Ecstasy.")

http://www.gamegirladvance.com/2002/10/sex-in-games-rezvibra...

I think there's a lot of hacking potential. I think it would be cool to have a back room in a club where you have Rez on a game console on a big HD screen with a nice sound system. One could also implement a wireless protocol for the trance vibe info and publish the protocol, so spectators would casually walk in and wirelessly experience the "synaesthesia."
Once redpower is compatible with 1.4.5, they are adding it.
Life of an instruction in LLVM
i dont get it... why?
whats bad about a file browser?

and what if i got mixed things in a folder?

i got music a cover for the music album and the lyrics in a pdf. now i must open 3 apps and find the these things? instead of just click on them?
why not make the file browser better? get a good desktop search etc...

sry but i just dont get the gnome-shell desktop
you can call me stupid ;)
If you have smart enough AI, do you get pregnant by it? That's how babes born, right?
I had a similar situation in Rome, Italy of all places...was shaken down by a subway officer for having 'invalid stamps' on our subway passes (they were obviously completely valid).

If we just paid a fine of xx euros directly to him, everything would be just fine...otherwise, he'd need to take us to the station, delay us (we were military and in the country for a NATO conference) to the point we'd miss our meeting.

Being in the mil and all, I was rather steamed, but my wife's cooler head prevailed. Obviously I now understand a little more about the 'system', even in civilized euro countries.

I have no doubts to the accuracy of most of this article.

edit: we did speak some Italian, fluent Spanish, German & a bit of Russian. Didn't matter one bit. Did make the mistake of actually producing documents & complaining/not smiling & joking. Probably would have been fined less if we did.
Oh, that was more of a personal comment. What I meant was that I ignore the call because I simply disagree with this method.
That's because around half the population already have standing offers to do so.
The Death of Social Networks
Show HN: Real-time exception capturing for web and mobile applications
Let's talk about ZRTP
you wouldn't do it in chile.
Are you sure? I've been sending email from my workstations for years and never had an issue. Maybe if I'd let spammers relay through them for a day or two I'd get blocked. Even that would just be temporary. Let's see some proof that you need a big boy's server to successfully send email. The only real problem I can think of is that a lot of ISPs block 25 out.
Anyone who's been in the military recently has spent quite a bit of time packing and repacking a shipping container, or just hanging out inside one during poor weather. I note that the Amsterdam student housing has an internal cross section of 225cm square (a little over 7').

They're certainly better than a tent, and I'd happily sleep in one if the alternative was homelessness or some unsafe shanty town, but they seem such a poor solution if your goal actually has anything to do with reuse or inexpensive housing (as opposed to trendy conspicuous environmentalism).
You have absolutely zero evidence or basis for your assumption. The truth is that nobody has any idea what people's motivations were for upvoting it, but it deserved to be upvoted. The only person who has made this conversation sexist is you and those who brought the topic up.
Why this? aren't there thousands of virgin nerds ... ?
Something similar happened at a company I work for; the account of the CEO suddenly becomes "temporarily unavailable".

I take their word for it and 12 hours pass and the account is still inaccessible. We're a paying customer, so I open up a ticket and it is eventually passed on to the "technical team".

I give them a call but they cannot offer any additional details nor any timeframe whatsoever when this will be resolved. Another 20 hours pass and my requests for any update go unanswered. Finally, after a total of 48 hours the account is available again. Still no update from Google.

Having been completely cut off for two working days, the CEO is now (correctly) questioning their use of Google Apps so I update my original ticket requesting any additional information they have that could assist me in justifying staying with the service. They tell me this will be forthcoming.

A week passes, no update. I reiterate my request and 10 hours later I'm told that the cause was a "server issue"...
Lack of tort reform, "defensive medicine" and the inevitability of being forced to work for a medium+ sized group or hospital have made the career increasingly unattractive. Something is amiss when 9 out of 10 physicians would discourage children from going into the field.[0]

[0] : http://www.thedoctors.com/ecm/groups/public/@tdc/@web/docume...
I thought twm was enough for that.
Which Toy Would You Recommend For Boys 6m-14y? Need Vouched Suggestions
Yeah. Was just a way to chime in on the fun surrounding the recent Susan Boyle PR gaffe http://gawker.com/5962642/susan-boyle-temporarily-regains-re...
Which is kind of surprising considering that possibility of home owner having a gun is mentioned as strong deterrent for criminals.
Nice pictures of cute animals
I would like to share three pictures of cute pets. They are specially chosen, so I am sure you will like them!
Please recommend gifts that your kids have liked. I am creating a list.
This is an annoying stupid comment.

Yeah, let's ignore the success stories and the financial benefits because it what is sort of a race scenario, Google's support failed. This seems like a bug and resolvable as noted by others in the thread.

You have a really obvious chip on your shoulder.
Changes in web-user behaviour
What's a vagina?

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Out of curiosity, do you avoid all ad-supported freeware? This seems no less innocuous than other popular free apps with ads like Words with Friends, Skype, Evernote, Trillian, etc.

That's a fair point about the pre-loading when you likely will never even see it. That doesn't really bother me, but I can see your point there. Would it bother you significantly less if it only loaded the ad on-demand in the rare instance that you actually scrolled that far right?
I've been to 93 countries. All continents. Places travellers would normally not contemplate visiting. All independently. I've _never_ had to bribe someone. In all the years of doing this, I've had an official try to shake me down maybe 5 times.

I think McAfee's advice is way off.
>We host our own email for a number of domains on different private servers. Easy.

From what I've heard other people say, running your own mail servers can be described with a lot of colorful vocabulary, though "easy" not being one of them. Do you know how much it costs you guys to run your own mail servers (both in actual "server has power" as well as technical ops cost) compared to using Google Apps? I've heard numbers in the 10x - 100x range.
The actual bottom line is that Medicare doesn't make "bizarre" rules, they make rules to try to minimize fraud and maximize patient benefit

My inclination is to believe that anything that comes out of government, including Medicare, is going to have a lot of bizarre rules whose actual purpose is to make a lobbyist happy.
Yup. It seems Google really cannot be arsed to do Customer Service. For them this was a "bug" and it is now marked as "fixed". Case closed.
Hatching Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens at M.I.T.
Thanks Mark, this is the mind of answer I was looking for. I think I tried Zoho a few years ago, but maybe I will check them out again.
It allows you to hang up the receiver in one room, walk to another extension and pick it up without disconnecting the call.
Yes, except, one government goes out of its way to retaliate lethally[1] against its journalists who counterargue the government line. So, given that, I think we're the 7s and they're the -1s.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_R...
Thanks. I'd imagine that there would be a noticeable shift in reported crime from areas of higher CCTV concentration to those [local] areas with lower CCTV concentration. It seems that there were no particularly clear displacement effects in the case-studies in that first doc¹.

The second doc² appears to make no clearer claims on displacement either.

Mind you we've 17 years more data now and there must be several areas where CCTV has been installed, removed (or deactivated) and possibly reinstalled.

There really must be better citations than this around. I've no time to dig for them now but these don't convince me that displacement is, if anything, more than a minor effect. Moreover those docs show a shift from direct personal robbery/theft to theft from vehicles; I'd expect that would result in less bodily harm overall at the expense of broken windows and bent door frames, probably a good result.

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¹ http://www.parliament.uk/post/pn175.pdf, 2002

² http://library.npia.police.uk/docs/hopolicers/fcdps68.pdf, 1995
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South American here (Peru) .. It all depends where you go.. Main cities & touristic places will probably be no problem. Go deep on to the jungle or to more dangerous areas (where you should not go anyways ) and anything can happen.

I would not suggest doing much of what is told on the article unless you really know what you are doing. (with plenty of practice)

The above said, make no mistake, police corruption is rampant, if you have not done anything wrong staying firm and having your papers in order is advised, if you do get in trouble , a $10 offering to have a "Cervezita" on your name" will help things for you.

Regarding planting drugs, I remember a big case of that in the 90's (but in Dallas Texas :)

Enjoy your visit.

Ps.
Attempting to smuggle drugs out of the country is a sure way to spend an extended vacation in a very nasty place.
This is not really a well thought out response. Most businesses don't have the resources to employ a system administrator to manage their Windows install, let alone manage all the other services required to run to meet the same level of functionality that "ready to go" services like Google Apps provide. Seriously.
If you are a law abiding citizen, it is way off.. if you are into "pushing the limits into criminal activity" it is quite accurate.
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Derek, this would be a cool project. If someone could work alongside a talented UX/Designer and bundle together some open source software with a nice UI, that would be quite useful. Roundcube seems to be taking a pretty good stab at this.