skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most scary thing is the author claims to be completely void of any theory or even ability to explain simple things ("explain something as simple as a nested array"?) one could learn in a day with quick look at a "learn whatever in 21 days"... but yet, he has published a technical book on PHP. Something smells in that story.
I say this as someone who has been in the unfortunate position of defending a pedophile in court, please stop defending child pornography and pedophiles.

Child pornagraphy is not an abstract concept. Child pornography isn't outlawed simply because it's obscene. Child pornography is outlawed because it is depraved, frequently violent imagery or videos of real children actually being violated. This is not speech. This is one of the most horrific, most sadistic acts that a human being is capable of perpetuating against another. It is worse than murder; these victims usually survive what happens to them. (There are a few situations where images are faked, i.e., by photoshopping children's faces on adult bodies, but this represents a drop in the bucket.)
This idiot was dumb enough to run a anonymizing network that he knew could be involved in illegal activities. He ran several nodes despite this, knowing and accepting that the Tor network would shield the identities (for the most part) of the actual criminals using his systems as through-ways, leaving behind his IP address as the sole traceable link.

Will he be convicted of possessing and/or distributing child pornography?

Probably not. Tor is not as anonymous as people think it is; an FBI forensics team will probably be able to track down the real criminal. In such case, this idiot will probably be off the hook. But if they are unsuccessful in backtracing to the real criminal, he will be the sacrificial lamb offered up by the prosecutors for this crime. His conviction (and trust me, there will be a conviction if this goes to trial) will serve as a warning to others: if you want to use Tor, make damn well sure you aren't a pass-through for child porn.
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This drives me crazy on the Mac as well. My solution is to just use the trackpad.
Just blow on it.
Why do you say that? Being so close to the Sun and without the protection of a magnetosphere you'd be pummeled by high energy radiation from solar flares (deeply penetrating protons, mostly). Because of the nature of the solar wind, you couldn't just rely on being in the shade to protect you.
Yes, ion3 was by far the best tiling wm in its time, and probably still is (I haven't seen another wm implement the tabbed frames metaphor yet).

I wish someone would port it to OSX (not X11). I'd pay serious money for a license and I imagine quite a few others would, too.
I was going to say that Skrillex is signed to deadmau5's (of Something Awful fame) label mau5trap, but that appears to no longer be the case. Skrillex is now with Atlantic, which is doubly impressive if they had anything to do with it.
I think that psychologist who didn't like the book didn't really understand the book. I also don't think that P.Z. Meyers ever understood much of what Kurzweil was talking about either.

My guess is that maybe some of the more biologically accurate spiking neural network simulations are more capable than the more typical neural nets that Kurzweil dismisses, but also less efficient than hierarchical hidden Markov models.

When I Google hierarchical hidden Markov models I see it being used in quite a lot of current research. I also see neural nets being mentioned, sometimes in the same project.

What research would you recommend?
I've come across at least one person that felt into that description, in the past. He was most definitely un-hireable - if anyone spent a second studying his (fake) past experience or his (non-existing) technical ability/interest on learning - had no idea what he was doing, but somehow managed to not just join a "big corp", but stay under the radar for years until he got promoted to a management position (where I believe he is today).
I've noticed the curve seems to strangely vary between different Macs and different mice.

On some of my Macs I had to install software to fix it, on some it just felt right from the start. I never kept track to make out a pattern, but it may be worth trying out a different mouse.
jQuery and Bootstrap. Learn how to make Ajax calls, and get comfortable encoding/decoding JSON.
Drop your swap on a separate drive from your main drive that is serving your data. Solves the problem nicely.
Its a fair point, although for some definition of scope its fairly straight forward to predict reasonably accurately.
I have a few questions not knowing all that much about BGP other than thinking of it in terms of a higher level DNS system for IP routing.

What gives Syria the authority to do this? What gives anyone authority to do this? What prevents malicious routing?. Could they route all traffic to 8.8.8.8 and overwhelm another network? If it's ICANN, can they come in and revoke control and give it to a third party intermediary?

It has been rumored a small staff of 6 stayed trying to keep the routes up. Their current status is not known. I understand in those cases no intermediary would help. But from a pragmatic standpoint, I'm curious.

While I understand this goes against the "rules" but if I have a DNS server and the roots drop a zone, and I don't agree, I can add it back in. As a local user I could add to etc/hosts like in the old days.

The above assumes I had a large user base like openDNS or google pDNS to be effective. Can the same be done with BGP? Can major broadband providers decide to ignore the dropped routes and send traffic along?

I understand Syria would just toggle off some other "switch" and terminate core routers but it would at least send a tiny message of sorts.

How are they stopping satellite access?

How are they stopping cellular based access?

Is there any form of TCP over Ham radio? TCP over laser? USB over carrier pigeon (seriously)? What are the bare bones options here for getting data in and out and where is that closest point of access?

No one has put in long range wifi links of the 20 mile line of site type, or is that still too short a distance to get a few users online?

What about dialup?

If CloudFront can see this much traffic, they must be doing pretty well. What is the point of Facebook, reddit, and many others using CDN's and Amazon and such when they could probably half their hardware and push the rest to ClouFront. Or is CloudFront really only best for static sites that are hit hard and need lots if bandwidth. Dynamic sites would still bottleneck at the database/drive/physical/etc layer?

Thanks. Sorry if these are rudimentary questions. I haven't even met that many people who have had BGP access. I'm going to go look up what the format files look like now, just out of curiosity.
Saw this link on Twitter earlier, didn't click through though. Flash ran fine in Chrome, pretty fun game, love the sound effects. I'm only 23% apprentice... if anyone made it to the end.
How come you always "used books" and yet could never even *understand what you're doing"?

This makes zero sense...
I noticed (c) 2012 Atlantic Records on the intro screen on my second time playing the game. At the very least, Atlantic helped bankroll this effort.
Well, you started off with such a contemptuous and condescending tone, but you missed a crucial distinction: nobody is saying that you don't support outlawing child porn, the question is whether or not you prioritize the preservation of hypothetical free speech (the case where speech is so constrained that Tor is the only/best avenue for free speech) over the enforcement of the laws which you feel compelled to declare support for.

So, less yelling, less sanctimonious wailing over how you're so misunderstood -- say how you think your priority of theoretical free speech isn't a de facto endorsement for transmission of child porn.
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I think it's more likely that Vayable just "grew at the same rate", where "rate" should really be "amount".

30% of 70 is 21 and April 2011 is about 86 weeks ago. 21*86 = 1806, so a rough projection of 1876 guides. The vayable website promises "2000+ tours", which with roughly that amount of guides with that projection actually makes sense :)
Does the contribution method actually change the document being edited or just add the parallel texts to the training data?
I touched a chest. It took me a long time to get there. I can't move and horrible noises are coming out of my speakers. I'm tearing up at the beauty of it all.
Correct, Burial, on the other hand makes music I enjoy.
Seems like a NoMethodError to me.
I am the only one that thought the game was making fun of Skrillex? I thought all the noise cubes were supposed to represent his music..
It is indeed an advergame. The page source refers to http://jasonoda.com/ . The author, Jason Oda, claims to be in the advergaming business and lists various viral games, like perfect strangers, as well as facebook games and the like in his credits. The about section lists a pretty impressive client portfolio, actually.
Interesting thing I noticed on the tech specs (http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx and http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-l321x-mlk/pd?~ck=mn) is the difference in battery life between Linux and Windows. IIRC Linux was 6:13, and Windows was 8:53. Thoughts anyone?
Chinese buyers falling out of love with iPhones
Uhh, to the extent that it makes sense to compare speeds of programming languages, PHP is faster and uses less memory than both ruby and python in many or most cases:

Python: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...

Ruby: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
2 reasons why a company should buy from a Startup
I'm confused, how does getting the speed directly from the car improve directions and heads-up display of speed over getting the speed from the GPS unit?
Based on the process outlined in the article, it is akin to taking an existing electronics product and then duplicating it. You don't really need to understand Ohms law or how transistors work in order to produce something that works like the original.

The article claims that the simulation behaves in many ways like a real brain, so even if they made some mistakes along the way, it is still incredibly fascinating.
A number of folks have speculated on the connector 'rock' (something like a wallet you carry around which connects you to the net) and then a variety of peripherals which are service portals too it. I could imagine just pairing my BT headset with an iPad and making phone calls on it. I don't really need to hold the transmitter up to my head.

But the smartphone/tablets are in the process of disrupting the PC industry, so I'm not sure they are ready for being themselves disrupted yet.
Microsoft launches ‘Don’t get Scroogled’ Bing campaign
Such a good example of how to market music today. Not a Skrillix or dubstep fan myself, but I can respect this.
Anybody know if you'll be able to install OSX on it? ... :-)
Judging by other posts on his blog (http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/thats-john-we-dont-know-what-... / http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/im-learning-ruby-on-rails-bec...), he's either using a "persona" to try and get clicks from newbies (to buy the book he wrote for "PHP newbies and marketing") or he likes the feeling of "being a complete incompetent, but somehow managing to get paid" (a lot of self-derogatory posts there, most of them including the usual "but whatever", "but I like to do like that", etc).

Fishy...
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I guess I wasn't clear enough if I came across like my example was complex. It's one easily solved via DM and one that's extremely hard to execute in most non-dimensionally-modeled setups. That's exactly why I'm a huge advocate of DM instead of just throwing a ton of servers, hadoop & MR at everything.
Does anyone else think this is a tremendous waste of time for Facebook? I mean, obviously PHP powers a lot of stuff at Facebook, I'm sure there are zillions of lines of code they can't just replace today, and now they're forced to make it scale. I don't mean to be negative -- building faster, better systems is inspiring, and the stuff they are doing with PHP is pretty neat, and there are really smart people trying to figure this stuff out. But, you have to ask, why are they still using PHP?? Why not use some of the new stuff that's out there now or heck, why not go with the JVM instead of reinventing the wheel here?

No I'm genuinely asking. Isn't some of the stuff here already being done by other languages, or is Facebook really breaking new ground here? (yes lbrandy I saw your earlier comment)
I've always wondered if something like the Chixclub (sp?) asteroid impact could impart enough energy to eject water and soil to escape velocity. Clearly easier to do at an angle than straight into the ground but the interesting calculation would be this, what size rock would have to collide with the ocean at what level to knock a chunk of the earth to Mercury ? We know this sort of transfer takes place since we've got meteorites that are from Mars so something hit Mars and knocked bits of it here.

Surely there is an astrophysicist in the house who could tell me if this is possible or just crazy talk.
Sorry, but gravity is not "explained" by any equation. It is merely observed and described. Currently there is no clear explanation as what is causing gravity to exist. So, we do not "understand" gravity better than the brain, in a sense. It is still a mystery.

I am not saying we should treat the brain as a black box and not try to understand its inner workings, but as another commenter mentioned, it is about finding the RIGHT level to understand its workings.
I just don't understand the hate. Like any language it has some syntactic quirks and inconsistencies. There's no way to objectively say that one language is superior to another, because there are so many metrics that contribute to superiority and every person in the world is going to weight those various metrics slightly differently.

I imagine it's neither "despite" nor "because" of PHP use; any top-tier developer is going to use the tools available to him/her, rather than pick an employer in order to use a specific set of tools. Lower-quality developers may do so, but that's probably because they're less likely to know the right tool for the job (eg someone may hate functional programming and avoid jobs that use it, but that's because they don't know when FP is the ideal way to solve the problem)
The only extention you have blocks ads, and you're tying to watch/play an interactive ad.
> There is no "object orientation" in the way unix works.

Who said there was?
Unfortunately that's not the sort of thing osx is amenable to.
Unfortunately for you, anti-trust doesn't work like that. You have to prove concrete harm to customers.

And that's how it should be, before Google, your only option for a smartphone was to pay one company way too much money. Customers directly benefit, and are more productive, so it's basically impossible in the US to prove antitrust against google.
Ugh, when I was a kid, electronic music didn't suck and you only started out with two heart containers.

Get off my lawn.
Carrying around and using a power adapter for a tablet at a cafe would be incredibly unfortunate. The iPad power adapter has such a small cord, you can tell you aren't meant to plug it in while using it. So that is the main difference between an ultrabook and a tablet, I guess.
Thanks.

Bill and me sorted this over email. The similarity in design was a co-incidence because the design is very simple.
The correct term for what you refer to as "american dubstep" is actually Brostep.

Dubstep was invented in Europe in the 90s and came out of the early techno scene. The shit these douches are making in California is completely unrelated.
Yes, the addlebrained old man faction has established their own branch of cookery. The simple truth is consciousness, as created by squishy brains, is a physical process. It doesn't rely on quantum non-locality or anything spooky. It's all physical things you can quite easily introspect by poking around (note: reassembly may be more difficult than disassembly).

It's fun to think about "what if our thoughts are the universe itself!" but it's so blatantly wrong. It's just one step away from saying consciousness is "mystical" or created by philotic twining.
Apparently that's a fake site:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one confused by this. I stared at the code listing and stared at it, only to wonder what the difference was. :)
Unlocked iPhone 5's now available.
> , but that's not simulating emotion, it's simulating the appearance of emotion. Big difference!

Is there, really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
> Pedophilia is just another sexual orientation.

No, it is a mental illness. I claim that there are zero pedophiles who were not subject to heavy abuse as children, and that this abuse was almost certainly sexual.

(I'm talking about attraction to young children in particular; there's a world of difference between 2 and 16 years old.)
not many, I'm afraid - but a few of them are making good progress: Babelverse, WeHostels, Taggify and SaferTaxi

(most of them not due to Startup Chile anyway, but still...)
I would be one of those people, but at 1500 dollars, seems a bit steep, for the hardware involved. I just got my Chromebook (ARM, 3G) and I'm amazed at just how well everything runs on it. But I don't think that the Dell is my target anyway, as I'm more of a u-boot, and kernel work is more my area of expertise rather than shoving things off into the cloud.

Kudos to Dell for doing this, hopefully more vendors will follow suit.
Why? People still think in the mindset of Linux vs. Windows when in reality, each party makes use of the other's software; frequently. I promise the "competition" is purely in your head.
Oh I thought you meant the more literal substance, not making a software simulation reproduction.
It is my understanding that hockey tape is electromagnetically transparent for most purposes.
Great, now my wife can find all the romantic comedies I don't want to watch in one, convenient, easy-to-browse list.

https://www.google.com/search?q=romantic+comedy+movies
Oh sure it is. I use a Dell laptop with 4GB of ram running visual studios (sometimes two instances), full blown SQL Server, SQL Server management studio (graphical database client), Chrome with a bajillion tabs and a handful of corporate-required background applications. I still don't get any noticable lag due to paging.
Saved the world Ranking Apprentice %23 and I got to watch someone blow fuzz out of a painted gold NES cart. Awesome.
A little bit of a side story about something that really opened my eyes last week.

I ordered a package that was shipping through UPS and when I called I was dismayed that there wasn't a way to enter my tracking number (It was 15ish alpha-numeric characters) besides speaking. So I thought "Okay, AAyyy--Fiivvee--Geeee..." I was about half way through slowly saying the tracking number when I was interrupted "Package not found, try again?"... Okay. "I must have to rattle this off pretty quick" I thought, so I blew threw it. It immediately found my package, told me where it was and when it was expected to arrive.

It was amazing. Voice recognition was good enough that UPS deems it fail-safe enough to have it be the only way to find a package by phone. That was the first time I really thought there might actually be a chance for an almost fully speech operated phone without a traditional UI.
What's wrong with switch based dispatch? Lua's dispatch is switch based, and it is the fastest mainstream bytecode-based VM out there last I checked.
I was being slightly facetious. I use OS-X for iOS development, I just prefer Windows.
Huh? UPS delivers to my door.
Having a Java SDK is on our roadmap, once it's out we will let you know.
If you want to save a $100...
* buy the 16GB from Verizon $199 (since it is unlocked because of FCC rules as I recall reading)
* cancel your contract $350

You come out $100 cheaper than buying direct from Apple. Now this is really only useful if you've got an account with Verizon already. Otherwise you end up paying activation fees, first month, etc. In that case, you'll end up paying the about same.

Just note: I have no done this. My current iPhone 4 contract is up in a few days. Trying to decide if I want to do this :)
With those prices I'm not optimistic about the uptake, but good on Apple for making the unlocked variety available.
Entering THE code actually did something. I'm seriously in love with this thing.
Most UI's or most web-based UIs?
Good story albiet, quite off topic :)
Why do you need more on board storage? Buy a usb drive or a network-enabled external.
This reminds me of the Personal Area Network (PAN), which was supposed to be the Next Big Thing in mobile technology 5 or 6 years ago. The idea was you'd have a device that connects you to the cell tower and it would create a bubble of BlueTooth or ZigBee connectivity that would allow you to get texts on your wristwatch, connect your laptop to the internet, interact with other nearby personal networks, etc.
The best description of VLC was that the icon is a traffic cone because it will actually play one. :)
I wouldn't lump all "chiclet" keyboards together. I really disliked Macbook keys (and I gave them a good long try) but the "chiclet" keys on my Logitech K750 are better than any non-mechanical keys I've used. I suspect that it helps that the K750's keys are slightly concave and (unlike Macbook keys) have the standard, .75-inch spacing between rows.
Yeah, we ended up writing the graphing library ourselves. Due to the nature of the data and frequencies of redrawing the large open source libraries were too CPU intensive.
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I'm a proponent of a device that you never take off. It needs to be waterproof, comfortable, and robust. If that's true then people can design assuming that it's always with you.

I don't think this is a pipe dream.
That's kind of my point. The fact that retailers don't make this clear is a problem. Regardless though, all you're buying is a license. What could it even mean "buy an ebook?"
Not yet, but it is very high on our list of priorities. Once we have it implemented we'll let you know.
I don't about them but i bought mine from RapidSSLonline.com a Platinum Certificate Authority of Leading SSL brands such as GeoTrust, Thawte, Symantec, and RapidSSL. They offer me Free SSL certificate for one moth trial and after trial period i bought my SSL certificate for as low as price with heavy discounted coupon code from them. Try them!
I've never heard of that eli, you have a good link?

EDIT: Just used that Google machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_area_network

Interesting stuff. Thank you.
Did you looked at the source ?

For example for the pidigits bench:

The PHP version use the GM extension
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=pidi...

And Ruby do it in pure Ruby
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=pidi...

So basically it's a C vs Ruby benchmark.
Many peoples complained on the forum, take a look.

The Debian shootout is interesting, but don't take it as an absolute truth.
Well seeing as how the final boss is Skrillex and you have to defeat him while he throws the corrupted cubes at you, I'd say yes they do represent his music, which is "corrupting the world".

It is tongue in cheek and that is part of the charm.
>Do founders usually prefer hiring someone who stalks them? Even if they quote: "lacked any and all experience we were looking for."

I imagine it's an ego thing. First-time founders are probably just pretty excited that someone's noticing what they're doing.