skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think it's fair that people are at least made aware this is by far the first time this has happened.

He attacked someone in a public forum, he apologized in a public forum, and I'm commenting on it based no my previous direct observations, in a public forum.

So yes, his apology in a public forum, was for me, for you, and for everyone else. If it was for her, it would of been directly to her. He's trying to cover his ass and nothing more. IMO.
I don't know how the casino handle it in practice, but theoretically, if you can itemize, you'll get it back at the end of the year (up to the extend of your winnings).

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc419.html
http://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Taxes-101/Can-...
This article is frustrating, it doesn't really explain the implications.

In what sense is this "illegal"? Could I be jailed or fined for doing this? I doubt it's going to be enforceable, unless somehow the carriers care enough to keep a database of phone ids and actually go after people? If a friend unlocks a phone for me, or I buy an unlocked phone unknowingly, am I now implicated?

It just seems to me that this is going to effect businesses that repair phones and phone companies with bring your own phone plans, not individuals, because people will go on modding regardless. Or is it somehow going to be "illegal" to the extent that roms will be modified and forum posts referring to "illegal" activities like unlocking the phone will be blocked?
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Intellectual Curiosity and Strategic Thinking
I've followed 2 of those individuals on twitter in the past. Note the tense.

I found CH to be particularly tiresome, all show and little substance. Also very much prone to contradictions, he doesn't seem to realize that people remember things. I haven't met him in person, but I imagine he talks quite a lot at a loud volume.
Some of these things (charity for troubled kids, holocaust book) appear in his non-video resume which he sent to the investment banks.

In the context of a huge elaborate joke about himself, this guy is easily someone I would have liked to hang out with, purely for the entertainment factor.

I'm liable to believe it was a little bit of both.
This is an awesome idea. Currently Drake only supports timestamped and forced evaluations, but it would be great to have an evaluation abstraction where you could provide your own implementation of whether a target's changed and/or whether a target is to be considered fresher/younger than another target. Timestamped would compare modification times, forced would return true, and it could be extended indefinitely.

If you're serious about it, please submit a feature request (https://github.com/Factual/drake/issues), and describe more specifically what you would like to be able to do in your case.

Thank you for a great thought.

Artem.
Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS
With Corey, it would happen face to face. I've witnessed it.
1) Win a monopoly market share.

2) Profit.

As far as business plans go, it's pretty obvious and pretty solid. It'll be implemented as a dual monopoly-monopsomy setup: consumers go to it to buy most goods, get screwed. Suppliers sell to it, get screwed.

There's a reason Wall Street likes AMZN.
>While it's true a few misguided Family First types have proposed mandatory filtering laws for Australia such laws are not in place

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but http://delimiter.com.au/2012/11/14/iinet-internode-implement...
This is for obscene content but it appears that there is at present no legal barrier to the government just issuing further Section 313 orders that would block websites that breach other laws.
Hmm, it sounds resistant to random MITM but the server can still listen in on the calls if it wants, by MITMing the clients itself...
For consumer routers, the Netgear 3xxx's have been pretty good (aside from bad batches), and I hear good things about ASUS routers, too.

IIRC Cisco axed the Linksys people around 2009 after a GPL violation suit caused by Broadcom not providing gcc source.
I'm very encouraged by the provided prospectus, since it implies btilly is one of the chosen few who not only know both frequentist and Bayesian techniques but also know when to use each and when not to e.g. give a Bayesian interpretation to a frequentist technique.
Finally!! Us Mac users are used to waiting a little longer than PC users to get a compatible version of the game, but 15 years must be some kind of record.
> Everyone would snap given sufficient provocation

Depending on your definition of "snap", this is unsubstantiated opinion, not a fact deserving the assertion you used.

It may be that everyone will "snap" if provoked enough if by "snap" you mean become aggressive, possibly entering into a fight, but even then you'll have to sell me that everyone is susceptible to this.

If you define "snap" as taking of another's life when there is no direct threat to your own (which is usually what we are talking about when discussing the murdering of a spouse), then I think you have a LOT of evidence you need to bring forth.
Actually, you're incorrect, at least Optus[0]. All android handsets on contract are unlocked out of the box, and all iPhones are unlocked free of charge any time in the contract.

[0] I used to work for them up until this year
Maybe Disney can work out a deal with Paramount involving Indiana Jones rights for the rights to do a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover.

Regardless of how such a crossover turned out, the Internet bellyaching would be epic.
You surely meant http://www.dayofdefeat.com/
I just fired up Steam and now I'm downloading HL for Mac.
OpenCL-capable 50 GFLOPs compact development board
> Attacking the market with a low margin strategy has other benefits, though, ones often overlooked or undervalued. For one thing, it strongly deters others from entering your market...

Not having to sweat a constant onslaught of new competitors is really underrated. You can allocate your best employees to explore new lines of business, you can count on a consistent flow of cash from your more mature product or service lines...

Isn't this contradictory? Having a low margin business by definition should mean that you have a smaller cash flow available to fund your R&D?

Also, somewhat unrelated, but I think one needs to draw a distinction between a low margin consumer staple style business (like cosmetics, food, or Amazon) and a low margin discretionary style business (luxury goods or consumer tech).
How to write a conference proposal
So make's default behaviour "make somefile.csv" is to build the whole tree of dependencies. To force rebuild of everything, run "make -B somefile.csv". It then assumes everything is out of date.

To force rebuild of one step, just delete its output or run "touch" on one of its dependencies before running make. Then that step will get redone.

I like to have generated data in a separate folder, say "output/" which you can then snapshot, blow away, or do what you like with. Basically though, I keep it separate from data and code inputs.
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Complete nonsense.

Skype's architecture is changing to match the changes in user base. As more and more tablets, phones, televisions and other devices which can't act as a supernode are added - and will be added in future - Skype needs to run more servers to pick up the slack. The notion that this is for eavesdropping purposes at the behest of the NSA is best left to the tinfoil hat brigade.

That said, you'd be ill advised to depend on Skype being more secure than a regular phone call. As a commercial service it is subject to all the kinds of pressures telco's face.
DE0001 - App reports incorrect state when viewed from powered-down e-ink based laptop if app is launched prior to shutdown.
I'm only a little sad about this. Linksys was my go-to for hackable wireless routers until I discovered Ubiquiti. Seriously, these guys make some awesome stuff.

http://www.ubnt.com/

$80 will get you a legal-maximum 1000 mW transmitting, fully OpenWRT-compatible router with 8M flash, 32M RAM, a PoE injector, outdoor enclosure, mounting bracket, and a standard replaceable RP-SMA omni antenna.

http://www.ubnt.com/picostation
Could we stop with the Asperger's fetishism? The vast majority of people in technical fields do not have any autism spectrum disorders. The vast majority of people who are jerks do not have any autism spectrum disorders, either. Most people who act like jerks (in both technical and non-technical fields) are just that: jerks.

Autism-type disorders don't just manifest as asshole behavior, and certainly not as just snarky inconsiderate behavior. They affect interpersonal interactions in general.

Saying that jerks in tech fields have autism spectrum disorders makes as much sense as saying MBAs have sociopathic disorders. "When I hurt my coworker's feelings, it's because I'm autistic. When my boss hurts mine, it's because he's a psychopath." Yeah right.
Why did men stop wearing high heels?
hardware is cheap and commodity. your best bet is looking through dd-wrt and finding what hardware offers the best specs and easy to install this firmware
Not really. Think of design as the core, while aesthetics is the chrome. In my opinion, design has purpose. Something is "designed" to do something. You know, as in 'intelligent design'.

Take an example here. In this website, which what people call a github for recipes [0], note how the recipe pages are made. The recipe page is an example of a high design, low aesthetics page. It was designed to do one thing and do one thing well: display a recipe. It was designed to draw attention to the FORK button, because that's what the aim of Fork the Cookbook is all about: to get people forking recipes.

It is lacking in aesthetics. It's not that beautiful to look at honestly, but in my opinion, it does its work well in doing its task.

[0] http://forkthecookbook.com/recipes/white-chocolate-passion-f...

disclosure: I designed the layout for Fork the Cookbook
This White House Petition Aims to Make Unlocking Devices Legal Again
thanks for the mention, and yes, it's definitely quite cynical :)

That said, I'm still trying to figure out what's so enjoyable about it. What about it is "enlightening" or makes you go "warm and fuzzy inside?" Basically, what differentiates this from using a full screen window in your text editor? Is it the contrast of colors? Is it because it's on the web? I wonder if I'm not using github to its full potential since I don't get it. Any insight to process or use cases other than how it makes you feel (I agree, it looks pretty, I guess) would be really appreciated!
I did this too and it was great. Then, one day, I wanted wifi. (I've been warned away from HostAP.)
"Your margin is my opportunity" -Jeff Bezos
SequenceL: A very simple parallel programming language
i swore by WRT54GL w/sd card mod for many many years (on dd-wrt, then tomato). jumped ship to an Asus RT-N16 recently cause i needed the wireless-N and gigabit switch. currently sporting the Toastman mod of tomato, Shibby mod is also good choice.

Toastman: http://www.4shared.com/dir/v1BuINP3/Toastman_Builds.html#dir...

Shibby: http://tomato.groov.pl/download/
1. Why is that obvious?

2. "only?

3. Why do people care? Not necessarily you, but commenters on reddit, The Verge and others are practically angry at Valve supporting Linux.
> The most confusing thing about AMZN and APPL are their respective PEs.

I've wondered about this too, but the post seems to shed some light on it. Amazon arguably has essentially no competition, while Apple, for all that it's doing well at the moment, has plenty.

(I understand the point is debatable. I'm just saying, this appears to be how the market is thinking.)
Thanks! This much I know. But it doesn't answer my question. Let me repeat it: could you please give me a command to re-build a particular target and everything that depends on it?
I was addressing your ideas, not you. But everything you say comes with an aura of wizard and that's why I'm taking issue to you saying things that would merely be opinion from someone else.

The idea that incrementing a URL is hacking goes against the designing principles of the web. Intended behavior isn't hacking. By either definition. Telling people that this is special creates a culture of ignorance where they think there's magic under the hood and never try to learn.

The idea that URL manipulation is hacking is factually incorrect and you hurt people by saying it.

This doesn't mean it's not an exploit, depending on circumstances. Many exploits don't require hacking. For instance, item cloning in a mmorpg. That something is exploitable doesn't mean you need to hack it. A "take a penny" dish is exploitable but taking the pennies isn't hacking.

As for emotional arguments, you responded to me with one. I know many sites do things their maintainers wouldn't want them to do, but sympathy doesn't justify bad laws.

I'm not arguing for decriminalization of hacking, but that this isn't hacking.
Open Letter: Internet, Lighten up
Being wrong on the internet can get you killed.
> First, a rant: I always get shocked about how the US justice system works, where punishing (and revenge) is obviously more important than protecting humans.

A simplistic view of how the currently policy such came about will probably do little to help change it, as arguments against it from that point will not sway people who don't believe that's the cause.

Possible other reasons someone might favor longer prison sentences (by no means exhaustive):
* Crime deterrence through harsher penalties.
* The perception that these are inherently bad people, and should be kept away from society for as long as possible.
* Corporate/union entities that benefit from a larger prison system.

Unless you target the actual reason someone holds a view, it's hard to argue against it effectively (but not impossible, you can just provide so many negatives that whatever positives they think they get are overwhelmed).
2-3 years seems to be SpaceX's preferred timeline (and they've hit most of them so far)
It sounds like it's mostly punitive - I don't think Antigua are trying to monetize this for themselves.
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Nowadays, you might want to play Black Mesa instead: http://www.blackmesasource.com

It's officially just for Windows, but it runs fine in Wine.
Hey, I'm having issues with the app and tags.

When entering three tags the last one is missed, unless I press space again but then I get a page with an application error page. Looks like your url mapping is broken as it sends me to /stumble/tag1/tag2,tag3 not /stumble/tag1/tag2/tag3.

I went to your app because I am always using Pinboard to find related interesting things on the web or my network to see what my peers are saving.
@schraeds: You've been hellbanned for... 299 days!

schraeds 34 minutes ago | link [dead]

Apple made as much profit this quarter ($5B), as Amazon has earned, ever.
What a waste of a post. There is absolutely no "meat" in that post; it's all marketing fluff. Boo. Like minimaxir said, it's probably growth hacking.
Interesting thoughts, but I'm confused: how exactly is Apple going wrong here? Despite their sky-high margins, they're finding enough customers to rake in record-breaking earnings. New products are often hard to find in stock: even iMac demand still outstrips supply. Samsung actually ran commercials mocking supposedly stereotypical Apple customer loyalty.

How is Apple hurting exactly? What are the symptoms of their failure to go after the low end market? From here, it looks like their big ailment is not making money as much faster than everyone else as some people would like.
That's exactly how it works in Australia, and I believe that is fair.
That's exactly what "make -B mytarget" does...

Are you thinking of a particular problematic scenario?
Natural Selection was probably the funnest mod (with CS being my favourite). I've been trying to find reviews on NS2 from those that actually played the original - any chance you've given NS2 a go?
Even today wikipedia mentions nothing of interdependence on probability...
The direct opposite. In the UK tech market there is almost a desperation to hire female staff. The handful of female devs I've come across are generally paid more than what a male with the same level of experience would purely because companies are desperate to cling on to the precious few females that exist in the market.

In my time I've advertised over a hundred dev vacancies. I can honestly count on one hand the number of female applicants that applied.
Not quite - CALEA legally requires telcos to cooperate with law enforcement and implement infrastructure for wiretapping. As far as I'm aware, no such law applies to Microsoft as they aren't a carrier under said law.

So any eavesdropping Microsoft lets law enforcement do is voluntary, whereas telcos have a legal requirement in this regards.

Metadata (call logs and such) is another story and are equally unprotected in practice.
Here is a better approach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
> Speculating that since the terms are not disclosed, they are not material to Cisco's earnings

My guess is their stock pops a little bit, if nothing else than from removing the dead weight.
Meh, there's at least some substance there. But I agree. Too much of several things.
Slightly off-topic, but Brian Hayes (mentioned several times in the article) has a very good blog here:
http://bit-player.org/
This guy Mauro is in an elite position where everyone is supposed to be good. If he's not good, he deserves a kicking. No excuses.
I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I get the impression that Linux-on-the-desktop peaked a couple of years ago, Now, with the Unity/Gnome 3/Mint/etc. mess, the momentum Ubuntu had has fragmented into several diverging paths. It seems harder now to recommend one single Linux distribution for the average user than it was two years ago.

On top of that, the PC itself seems to have peaked. It's hard to think that Valve sees this as the right time to pour resources into PC gaming on Linux. It's much more likely to have something to do with the console we know they're working on.
"Do not ask why they can’t do something “so simple” – they can’t."

This is the core truth in this post.
U.S. Senate: Vetoes
Ah, ok, I wasn't aware of the libuv effort. Interesting.
> does anyone know why Cisco sold Linksys?

I recall reading somewhere that the Linksys devision was more or less going downhill fast, due largely to cable/dsl modem vendors including wireless in their models, and operators simply using them for customers. Can't remember where I read that, or if it was even true, so consider it a rumor I guess.
It's a robust debate and a complicated one, to be sure.

That's the state of play as a few months back, iiNet has agreed to filter the interpol list of serious child porn sites and that's:

- not the same as the initial black hole, black list initially proposed

- something I have far less of an issue with, particularly if a significant proportion and cross section of the population has access to the list (still being ironed out)

- the story's still not played out (and hopefully remains in play, forever, as a point of active debate for Australian society).

Thanks for posting the link, I was aware of that and deliberately simplifying above.

Coming back to the banning of Antigua from within Australia should the US do so, I can see that being proposed and raised up the mast here, I don't see it being pushed out and actually floated quite so easily.
What in particular is bad about a Honda hybrid for those conditions? Are you referring to slow cabin heating or something else?
The only market in which Apple enjoys a healthy phone market share now is the U.S. and I strongly suspect that is largely a product of the carrier subsidy model. If people had to pay the full price of a phone upfront I'm sure a lot of iPhone buyers would opt for cheaper alternatives. Any company that's growing should post "record-breaking" earnings every quarter.

Luckily for Apple the U.S. market is also by far the most lucrative, at least for now.
> Then I noticed that the way you talk about p-value doesn't sound very frequenty.

I think a lot of people improperly understand the Frequentist/Bayesian divide; both look at likelihood functions but the Frequentists assert, as a matter of experimental interpretation, that the likelihood function should depend only on the observed data while the Bayesians are willing to admit "out-of-experiment" modifications to the likelihoods implied by the data (i.e. the "prior").

Frequentist arguments correctly point out that the prior is, from the isolated standpoint of the experimental observations, purely subjective and non-falsifiable. Bayesian arguments correctly point out that experiments are designed by humans in context, and that the context may imply a prior distribution that is not evident within the observations themselves. Neither is incorrect, but they answer different questions. Which question is the right one to answer is context-dependent.

As a concrete example, consider an A/B test where A and B perform very similarly. Merely seeing A's performance against B does not carry the contextual information that A has consecutively beaten one hundred previous non-B competitors that sort-of-look-like B. The Frequentist will correctly argue that, if you don't explicitly model the A/B test generation process (as opposed to just the A/B test itself), then all the data can tell you based purely on the laws of probability is that A and B are likely to be pretty similar. The trouble faced by the frequentist is that it's pretty easy to model an individual A/B test for, say, binary outcomes, but it's very hard to explicitly model the generation of A/B test competitors. So the Frequentist says "all I can tell you and still be strictly objective is that A and B look similar".

The Bayesian, rather than explicitly modeling the generation of tests as the Frequentist would like, wraps up that contextual knowledge into a subjective prior distribution that heavily weights A over B simply because A has won so many times before. The Bayesian's advantage is that the previously-blocking part of the probability modeling problem is punted into a subjective, experimenter-designed, input. This is a tradeoff, not an increase of correctness! It will "do the right thing" assuming the new B looks a lot like the old Bs, but will do the wrong thing if the new B is dramatically different and maybe looks a lot more like A with small tweaks.

Bayesianism is not a universal solution to probability modeling problems, and Frequentism is not an obsolete unhip method.
I created a VPS with CentOS. I think I started with CentOS 5.6 and Zimbra 6.8 Community Version. I last updated it about two years ago, so that it is now CentOS release 5.8 and Zimbra 7.1.1_GA_3196.RHEL5_64.

It intermittently was used by different groups of about 50 people who accessed it using IMAP and the web portal without any problem.

Now all it is doing is continuing to collect email subscriptions from software vendors I was trying out at the time, though some other people may still be using it. I don't think anyone else even knew how to access the administration console, and I haven't logged into the admin console in over a year.

Occasionally, log into the shell, because of a bug I never bothered to address. It slowly collects a lot of temporary files. Speaking of which I should do that now:

`Last login: Sat Sep 1 19:27:28 2012 from __`.

Then I ran:

for i in {0..9}
do
find /tmp/jna${i}*.tmp -cmin +30 -exec rm {} \;
echo $i "out of 9" `date`
done

To be honest, that is ugly, and I should upgrade. The script took 30 minutes to run, and found 20GB that had accumulated in under 5 months. However, it isn't critical for anyone, and < 3hrs/year is a nice level of admin effort.

To answer your question: I'm sure not every module is functioning perfectly, and though it hasn't needed much maintenance over the past year, it hasn't been under much load either.
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Thanks for confirming! I'm doing the same.