skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessary unemployment, maybe conversion. Perhaps cleaning industries will take care of providing and deploying hydrophobic substances in toilets, firms, public services etc.

Or maybe as you suggest it will create a completly new market. It depends entirely on the ability of these companies to move forward.
Heh. I don't really consume images. I just view them.
What no one seems to think about is the potential health consequences of this application of nanotech.

This is basically something made with particles that are much smaller than your cells. The material can probably get into your body by osmosis alone. Will the materials affect your body? Cause cancer? Get stuck in your lungs? Do something else that we don't know? There has been very little research on this area, and the little research that has been done is worrying. Putting this in consumer products is a very large and uncontrolled experiment.

We should be careful of starting to use materials like these with no further study or testing. There is a risk we might end up looking like the guys who brushed their teeth with radium or used a portable x-ray video machine to examine their kids' feet at the shoe store.
How about making graffity with it in a rainy place? It could look very cool and would be hidden most of the time.
Maybe make it work using a different bank system and IBAN payments IBAN is international, you might consider opening a IBAN acount in Venezuela. I'm in europe and i like Ideal much more then paypall. As "Ideal" is much more secure. Other options might be bitcoin, or maybe game dollars wich can be changed to hard valuta like lindendollars ...
Can someone buy this and do a comprehensive review?
That was a fun pannel. Though they took to long to introduce the speakers it was an interesting talk. The only real issue I had is that most of what was said we already knew.

There's been some great work in integrating all this technologies for free open and secure communications but what I really missed was that it didn't really focus on how to get it out there to everyone.

Like one of the speakers said, we're the 1% that knows this stuff but we need to get the other 99% too. I would've liked if the pannel focussed more on that instead of interoperability of SIP, XMPP, other tech and patting each other on the back a bit too much.
After a few light years non focused radio/tv transmissions will drop off into background noise.
Active SETI is what's needed to send a signal to other planets
Please stop butchering Occam's Razor.
For your convenience

wget http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-{toc,pref,acks,bi...

curl -O http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c[01-27].pdf
I Reveal My Attributes project - Offline attribute-based identity management
Not to nitpick, but the fact that we can't rule out that possibility is nothing special.

You cannot rule out the possibility that when you drop a ball it won't fall to the ground. Empirical reasoning does not operate in absolutes. Only inductive reasoning operates that way.
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>their primary goal is to support their members and the betterment of the field

Their primary goal is securing a nice remuneration for the members of their board.

I've been in this field for a long time and I want to see these organizations disappear. We don't need them (anymore).
Also, from the article:

"We've seen similar bugs in Intel's reference code in the past, but they were all fixed early last year"

So, this might actually be a bug written by Intel.
It's not so much the infrastructure, it's the stamp of approval that publishing in a peer-reviewed journal gives your work. Work you post on a blog wouldn't be seen as serious scientific output.
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What, so PayPal allowed him to use their service with a Social Security number, then they take his money because he doesn't have one?

PayPal is the one at fault here. Don't let someone use your service without adequate ID. Tell them and require it before you can use the service.
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Yes, this is what I meant

Problem is these 'slight changes' sometimes are what is wrong.

And this is not only about secure boot, but the whole UEFI infrastructure, which, as far as I know, is very complex.
Isn't that the job of the IRS? What does PayPal have to do with that?
Don't like the use of the word Martyrdom here. Although there are quite a few definitions of the word, in general it means someone killed themselves to send a message or prove a point. I very much doubt Aaron killed himself to be a martyr, but largely because he was depressed (in the clinical meaning) and couldn't see a way out or a future.
>> Unfortunately, while a lawyer can certainly make a request to PayPal, their user agreements are loud and clear on the issue of freezing accounts. Essentially, you agree that they can close your account and hold your funds for any reason or no reason at all.

> Every lawyer I have ever talked to formally or informally have said such things may be challengeable in court. That's why you want to talk to a lawyer.

It's because it's what's called an unenforceable contract [1], because if they close the account for any reason, that reason could be because you are selling some goods, but PayPal doesn't like it. A court shouldn't uphold that, and I'd love to see PayPal be brought to task by someone with enough money, time and anger that they pursue a lawsuit to it's logical conclusion.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unenforceable
Photographs are formed by light through a lens falling onto film (or a sensor).

NASA has images like that. They also have images formed after extensive post-processing, or merges of several images, or from frequencies other than light, or computer rendered from map data, or etc etc.
How to prevent a meritocracy entrenching itself
"Four times nine" (four days of nine hours each week) also is popular, as is "every second Wednesday is a day off".

Employers like these because they do not build up vast reserves of free days. If you collect four hours off each week for 36 weeks, you have collected four working weeks of holidays. Add the regular 4-5 weeks of holidays and some national holidays, and you can almost take a three month vacation.
I am wary of truecrypt. It is open source, but the development is not open. It's also "exceedingly difficult to generate binaries from source that match the binaries provided by Truecrypt (due to compiler options, etc.)"[1]

[1]: http://www.privacylover.com/encryption/analysis-is-there-a-b...
>But they lack the learning to be able to articulate and argue at this philosophical level (for if they had that kind of education, they'd most likely have ended up believing that society should be engineered).

Citation needed. I have "that kind of education" and I surely don't believe that "society should be engineered".
Then what's with the outrage? If his death was merely a symptom of clinical depression, why all this unrelated activism in his name? It's not like a big fund for the Depressed Peoples' Support Group was set up, we're trying to get his prosecutors fired.
Not quite. At different points in his career, Buffett had large holdings in tobacco and coal. Plus, to this day, owns a decent percentage of Coca-Cola - which I would argue is a pretty unethical investment.
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As I understand it, being branded a felon in the U.S is a big deal... you essentially lose a bunch of 'rights' that you have as a citizen. This dominos on to making it harder to find jobs, places to live, loans... etc.

You could argue someone with Swartz status in the community would alleviate some of those things... but I'm not sure how far that goes.
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That he he was forced into that position is what outrages.
No, he's also not getting any principal. It's frozen.
IEEE and ACM are supposedly democratic organisations. The way to change them is from the inside: get a core group of members on-side, put candidates up for election and start building support among the membership.

Reading around, there's at least some movement on the open-access front in the IEEE. IEEE allows authors to pay a hefty up-front free to make their paper "open-access" [1] and one of the candidates in the last election has the words "open-access" in his statement [2].

[1] http://theinstitute.ieee.org/briefings/business/ieee-expands...

[2] http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/election/2012candidates....

Edit: grammar
Yes, a lot. Chef, puppet and vagrant mostly, but also for a lot of command line script.
When Britney Spears shaved off all of her hair herself, it was because the hairdresser flat-out refused to do it for her.
> Even so, the chances are astronomically low that Curiosity has managed to stumble upon the wreck of another spacecraft.

And the most likely alternative is?
I run a small web agency and would like to see similar thoughts, issues with client relationship, building trust, etc. Are there nice blogs/articles that can help?
For those curious about the composition of the hydrophobic coating, the FDA and USDA guidance docs talk about the constituents:

http://www.spillcontainment.com/sites/default/files/FDA%20an...

It looks like it is fumed silica in carrier solvent with polyurethane adhesive. The fumed silica is branded "Aerosil", and made by Evonik:

https://www.aerosil.com/product/aerosil/en/products/hydropho...

Interestingly, it looks like Avon has a patent that covers applying hydrophobic Aerosil to keratin fibers (hair):

http://www.google.com/patents/EP2293760A1?cl=en&dq=evoni...
This looks interesting. Does it have much effect on battery life?
How many game developers do everything in the game and then get their game marketed in his/her own name. Then people would buy a lot of copies because of the name and the original author will not get anything.

You have to remember, selling a duck comic carrying the names of Carl Barks and Don Rosa is a very big business here in Europe. The comic's don't sell because of Disney, because of the ducks themselves. People adore those two gentleman.

And they don't get anything out of it.
So if they don't look at his site, or his business, then how do they know he's a money launderer?

The problem is not that they freeze accounts, but there is no recourse to appeal. They require ID after freezing the account, but they should get this before setting up the account. If they are so upset about fraudsters, then I'd have thought they would attempt to ascertain the identity of their patrons before getting their knickers in a twist that their patrons aren't identified fully.
Here's a related question. PayPal is officially in my country. Can I take money from anyone in the world and receive it in under my country's law?
Now we have paypal apologists and defenders.

I guess that's like how no-one can imagine cops as abusive and surely the person must have done something to deserve it.

I guess we'll have to wait until you are on the wrong side of paypal and then you can tell yourself you deserved it.

Ask yourself who gets to keep the $200k if he cannot jump through their hoops. Hint: it's not the government.
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Well, you can at least count me as someone who didn't buy Diablo 3 for absolutely no other reason than the ruckus that followed its release - due entirely to their bullshit DRM.

And I didn't pirate it, either. I've never really got into any of the Diablo games, but there was so much hype around 3 and so many people looking forward to it that I figured I'd give it a shot. But then even two weeks after the release there were still problems with it and I just sort of lost interest.

There are so many good games on so many platforms these days that to buy something you can't play because of artificial limitations just seems colossally stupid. Yeah, so I missed out on Diablo 3. No big deal.

Has anyone ever really done a proper study into lost sales via DRM? It seems like half the industry has just accepted it as something they have to do, and they don't want to know or even care if it affects their bottom line positively or negatively.

I have a feeling I won't be playing the new Simcity either. In the past, I may have tried to pirate it. Now? I'll just ignore it.
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> “Php; It's not as bad as Perl”

PHP is not as bad as Perl, it's worse.
Here's a video from 1994 when Carl Barks had his first visit in Helsinki. The streets were full of people celebrating. He was kind of a rock star in the country.

http://yle.fi/elavaarkisto/artikkelit/carl_barks_suomessa_14...
So, I bought new toys and had to pay tax. After some years I decide to sell it, I need to pay taxes for my old stuff ?!?!
Unedited original Chris Dorner manifesto
It's rare that scifi paints klingons and their ilk as 'enlightened'.
Do remember that the current flu vaccine (as an example) has an efficacy rate of less than 65%. So even if 100% of the population were vaccinated, herd immunity would not be possible.

Herd immunity requires about 75% + efficacy of the vaccines (and assuming 100% of the target population is vaccinated), from what I can understand (it varies based on how the disease being vaccinated against, is spread).

There are vaccines being sold and marketed, that have efficacy rates as low as 35%.
History up until... when? The last 60 years has seen considerable advances in inter-race politics, and it's improving all the time. Why wouldn't exopolitics be an advanced form of this?
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Nice to meet you, and yes something like that would be nice to look forward to.

In the meantime I have to monetize the brainpower of the next twenty years to be able to retire :-)

But I would like it if I could make some cash by or along with contributing something worthwhile.
You can deposit the funds without any tax details or linking any bank account. But you cannot withdraw it without one.

If transferring money without SSN is illegal; I wonder how collecting it without one would be legal.
Off-topic: I updated the sites' design to make it more readable: http://cl.ly/image/3l3M0E320S3m
The holy books aren't like a country's constitution. They're all 'interpreted'. "What this passage means is...".
> and the little research that has been done is worrying.

reference?
Funny take on 9 things Apple could do with its $137 billion cash heap
See any study on micro- particulate matter.
"x-ray video machine to examine their kids' feet at the shoe store"

Except there's no real evidence this ever hurt anyone?

And xrays are an incredible medical marvel that has saved millions of lives.

Fear hurts more than it ever helps, if they had delayed xrays for even a few years imagine how many more deaths there would have been.

The precautionary principle is a dangerous idea that has somehow has gotten mainstream acceptance. It regularly kills people, people somehow think it's a safe concept when it's not.
How to achieve 4 flops per cycle?
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Re "deprivation ... from everybody"...

I was told once that the typical paper in my field gets only two serious readers, beyond the reviewers. (The joke is that it gets only two, including three reviewers.)

Of course, it is impossible to know who has read a paper, and that may explain why I've never seen the number written down. Still, it's easy to count citations. In my field, strong papers get perhaps a dozen citations. My guess is that no more than a quarter of citations indicates a thorough reading, so we indeed get a readership that could be counted on one hand.

For an author, a big factor is page charges. A popular [society, noncommercial] journal that I use has a special deal for providing content to readers for free. It "only" costs 3K. At that rate, the one or two potential readers who lack a university subscription could just phone me and I could buy them a ticket to visit, where I could explain the work in person.
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A good website to get virtual Visa/MasterCard
I need to create a virtual(prepaid) debit card to make online purchases and pay for services online(amazon, heroku). I don't want to use my regular credit card and I don't want to get a card from any local bank.

Is there a good website that allows you to do that? I've tried Entropay, but I can't load funds to that card from my credit card b/c of some bank to bank issues.

Thanks.
How Facebook, A Pixar Artist, And Charles Darwin Are Reinventing The Emoticon
In today's world when we are already challenging the usefulness of a college degree, I think its a bit dated way of thinking saying that one member has to be a student.

No bad thoughts for the fellowship itself, its a noble cause.
But I think it will be better if you remove the college going restriction.

A person who decided to quit his daily job, working on something full-time is also a student, "a student of life".

Why do we need to have a college registration to prove anything to anyone in this world.

Sorry for the harsh words but I feel a little anger when a college education or degree becomes a road block in anything I wish to do.

PS: I completed my education though (not very proud of my education itself, but few projects I did while there which I would have done anyway.)
So what is special about losethos? I see it's 64-bit multi-tasking real-mode, and I see he's apparently posted some unpopular opinions on various forums (not sure what his posts are, they've all been deleted), causing him to become banned. Doesn't seem like any big deal to me.

According to http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html the author is often ridiculed for his work. I don't think the G-WAN author is in a comparable situation.
I once saw a topic where the new CEO requested that people with problems contact him in person.

I thought it was david@paypal.com, i'm not sure.
Question for non technical single founders.... is it possible to get matched up if you Apply?
The Case of the Disappearing Homing Pigeons
I have to veto that site's side scrolljacking. I can't view the main table properly on my htc desire, scrolling right switches me to a different article!
IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
This is how Michael Phelps won his Olympic medals?
I always thought the visa is the major weakness.Many US incubators encourage european startups to apply, yet they try to avoid the hassle.Hungarians don't need a visa to visit US.Big advantage.I had this problem 5 years ago and I had to move my company in UK to be successful and it worked.

Out of curiousity, when you or the others review applications, do you have a negative feeling when you see the location?The reason I am asking is because investors tend to favor some countries and no one wants to be the underdog right from the start just by having the "luck" of being born in a small country.Thanks.
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You're posing a false dichotomy, in that we either use X-rays for everything, or nothing. Using X-rays for medical imaging is worth the risk, using them to try on shoes isn't.

Consequently, using this material to avoid getting your boots soaked and freezing to death on a mountain might be worth the risk, but using it on your coat isn't.

The truth is that, indeed, we don't know the health risks. Fear has saved more lives than taken, I suspect.
The thing is:

"If you are using copy and paste while coding you are probably committing a design error" doesn't conflict at all with what he says. The fact is that copy and paste is the point when one looks and says "is refactoring appropriate here?"

One thing I would point out is that premature optimization is the root of all evil. You can get a pretty good sense that if your refactor adds more lines than it deletes and functionality remains the same, that you have added complexity in refactoring which means very likely that you are doing it wrong. This is particularly true if you can't say it is reducing the number of lines of code generally, or compartmentalizing state changes.

(This leaves aside the fact that the most pernicious use of copy and paste in the world is "sample code.")
ah. the good old 'programmable semicolon' explanation. that is a good starting point, yes.

(that's only a comment to make looking for these explanations easier.)
I'd train a linear regression on the text features to approximate the box office returns. That would be a way to build a rating system - the value of the function is the rating itself.
I only pointed out that the poster has no idea of truth of the matter. I did not claim that anyone else, other than Laurene, and maybe the IRS, does.

Take note of the poster's wording, and leap of accusation. He has zero basis for his position, but he's not letting that stop him from passing judgement.

There's a word for that sort of behaviour. It isn't complimentary.
Also at two, the repetition probably reduces complexity rather than having to deal with both use cases in the same code. At three, assuming the use cases are not any further apart, I think they start to simplify when refactored.
Paypal has to report these things over a certain amount
I think Occams razor would dictate that it is just a weird looking piece of metal formed in the early days of mars, when there was more volcanic activity.
Opinionated advice: go full Python or Javascript! Being exposed to first class functions and higher order functions, without needing to wrap your head around OOP or even simple things like code blocks gives you a clear and "functional ready mind": after Python you can jump into Javascript or just as well into Haskell. From Ruby you have a little "baby wall" to climb when you go out of it to the larger world.
It depends. Sometimes it is obvious what refactoring will need to be done, sometimes it isn't.

I do agree that for newbie devs, your approach is a good one, but I think that as folks get more experience, shortcuts often are appropriate.
I can easily imagine someone saying that. What is happening to language? Only the same thing that has happened to it for thousands of years. Language changes and evolves – inevitably, constantly, and in my opinion, beautifully.
> I'm not going to try to keep people walled in

Then why can't I hide the ugly red banner?
Yes, exactly. I think people arguing for "freedom" here need to start listing what papers they want to read and why. Most research isn't exactly accessible even if you hand someone a copy of the paper.
agreed. This is blackletter law and is taught early on in law school
good experiment but accuarcy more like 10% than 80% , but again cool stuff , can make its effect during a talk in a conference.
It is usually my luck that I get approached by big vision sales types doing a project that requires some niche of what I do well. It is the distraction of the additional project that degrades the quality my work. Have to say no.
Give that fish a hand