skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big difference between the graphics card modification and the modification of those modems is that unlike the Internet connection, you're stealing from nobody when you modify the card.

If you're going to spend the effort to modify the card to behave as what is described in the hack, then it is really no loss to the manufacturer as they had already made a sale to you and you're forgoing your warranty in the process, so they will unlikely need to spend any further money on you.

Contrast this to a cable modem modification where you modify the uploaded file to allow for faster speeds, to the detriment of others. People who legitimately pay for those speeds you've effectively stolen could be hindered as a result. You're stealing from a service in this case.

So I don't think your comparison is fair here.

A better example would be those who have older video game consoles and are tapping into the RGB lines to produce a video signal superior to of what is offered out of the box. The manufacturer never intended for this but physically it allowed for it due to different markets or how the video was processed to begin with.
But a compromised credit card doesn't mean you risk your whole bank account. First, at least in the US, there are limits to what you are liable if you are card is compromised -- report within 48 hours, the limit is $50, report within 60 days, the limit is $500. Second, credit cards have a credit limit -- so, worst case scenario, you'd be out to whatever your limit is (which is unlikely to happen as any weird use of your card would probably trigger it for a security review, which wouldn't allow any transactions until someone talks to you). Finally, credit cards (unlike debit cards), are not linked to your bank account.
I love how Jason Fried, the most self-important man in software (who can't code) is first on the list to diss the security patches. Fuck you, Jason. Learn to code. Then you can diss.
It's the real Jason Fried. He is an asshole.
> the temperatures at which they become safe to eat (if applicable)

Most modern food can be eaten raw. Or lightly seared to kill surface bacteria. Modern food safety is pretty neat. It probably won't taste great though.

NB this does not apply to raw processed meat - for example, ground beef/pork/chicken is probably a bad bet. Surface area to volume ratios are key.
What about Stuxnet authors? They work for government, it's legal for them.
Did he actually say he read textbooks? I was under the impression that he was referring to something that would be more suited to the average or even just uninitiated reader. I know a bit about the concepts of quantum mechanics, just from reading various books of varying difficulties on the subject, but I wouldn't claim that it was equivalent to actually taking a course on them or going through a textbook, even when I did take notes.

I realize it's right next to when he says "[I] can read my textbooks twice as long without mental fatigue", but that seems coincidental juxtaposition, rather than him referring to the same books.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't really seem that implausible, if that's the case.
Given that it would be trivial to turn around and ask them not to offend, I fail to see the benefit in publicly going after these guys after the fact.

Mob justice doesn't allow the other party the ability to alter their behaviour (we don't know if asking would have worked) nor does it allow the other party to tell their side of the story.

In addition, it has a habit of causing both sides to dig their heels in and often causes more trouble.
If you want to dig into the million SNP raw data from 23andMe any further than what is presented on the website, Jeff Hammerbacher and Konrad Karczewsk taught a Skillshare on doing your own personal genome analysis with Python and various other tools.

Slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/jhammerb/20130206skillshare

Github repo here: https://github.com/hammer/personal-genome-analysis
http://imgur.com/s1HHNwo
Of course you never know which one will become the next Firefox. (In the sense of headline product.)
I repeat, this does NOT make your GTX 6XX card faster, nor does it make it slower.

So what is the difference then?
we'll forget about him completely after today.
That's a very bold assertion. I don't think they would push a driver out that recklessly just to stop one hardware hack. Besides, this was posted within a few days of him posting on the nVidia forums and you said yourself, the issues you had with the card are a few months in.

Even if they knew about it before hand, it's not like a critical vulnerability or something; just an interesting modification to hardware (rarely how intrusions happen) that very few people know to implement correctly and fewer still who would want to do to their cards.
I was one of the early adopters of this service. The trial (which I signed up to) started in March of 2012.
Ubuntu Live CD Business Card
> I'm the only one my doctors know of who actually was able to adhere to a liquid only diet for a stretch of multiple months, people simply don't have the willpower

My experience was due to jaw surgery: 1 week clear liquid, 4 weeks completely liquid diet, 1 week extremely soft food (baby food).

I lost 30 pounds over that 6 weeks (incidentally, more than should have been possible on a complete fast. Healing is energetically expensive.) . I actually found by the end that I didn't really want to go back to solid food - it was extremely convenient having everything set up for me.

On the other hand, I also essentially lost my sense of taste for that six weeks too - probably made it easier when there's functionally no incentive.

However, when I did return to solid food (after my sense of taste returned), dear god the first bite of mashed potatoes were the best food I have ever eaten.
Down voted and I wish blacklisted.
Sure, it's at:

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
Oh, I didn't read your username until just now.
okay I'm ready to ditch dreamhost PS for linode if they double the ram. basically linode is offering several fold more than what dreamhost private server is giving me for the same price. looking forward to this double ram.
Way to be passive aggressive about it.
"the K5000 is only single GPU and clocked some 25-30% slower then the gaming card"

Makes sense. Quadro cards are used for life critical visualizations, e.g. finite element analysis of a bridge. That's what justifies their expense. Rendering speed only needs to be "fast enough." The premium is on accuracy and reliability.
Is this some kind of joke post?
Oh, it's actually serious...

I don't want to live on this planet any more.
TANRI TEYİDİ : HİLECİ, KORKAK OLANLARIN AKIBETLERİ AZAP VE CEHENNEMDİR
Link to the other HN thread on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391667

If the comments are to be believed someone's already lost their job over this.
Is this interactive avatar the face of the future?
Actually yes, "people can get high from bitcoins". Bicoin is the exclusive currency of payment on Silk Road (illegal drugs, weapons, etc). If Bitcoin is ever made illegal, it will continue to be used precisely to buy illegal products that people will always desire.
Thanks for the explanation, this really piques my interest in Rust. BTW, now I have a follow-up to my question whether Rust's references are the analogue to C++ weak pointers. C++ weak pointers can be dangling, but in a controlled manner, that is, one can ask them whether they're dangling or not. Am I correct in assuming that Rust will never allow anything like a dangling pointer, not even the "controlled dangling" of a C++ weak pointer?
USA has strangely different usage patterns. Usage decreases in the evening so peek seems to be during work hours.

Americans work a lot, I'm sure almost all of that internet use is productive and they just prefer having fun outside after work.
Update if anyone ever comes across this: service support got in contact with me and got me moving. They were having a problem with their outgoing email functionality.
Modern humanity evolved to eat tubers in the last few centuries?
Would you use this instead of Google? Feedback appreciated
I intend to use Pwinty.com for offering reprints from my photo booth. Just haven't had the time to put it all together yet.
Not too surprising - classic example of price discrimination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination.

Think of any product you see out in the world - and I guarantee you that there is some level of price discrimination going on. It really is very expensive to develop completely different lines of products - any rational company would just slap on a few restrictions and a different brand name and bam! whole new market being served, with the existing one remaining in play.

It's actually quite elegant.
Dairy, Organic, Frozen, Meat, Poultry, Grocery, Products, food, China, Japan
Natures SunGrown Foods provides complete range of Dairy, Organic food, Grocery, Meat and Poultry, Frozen and dry Products, Food and Beverage Brands, Mexican Foods
in China, Saigon, Jakarta, Taiwan, Busan, Tokyo.
Let robots find your size at men's jeans store
nice comment from a lead developer of ayttm (im client) on this post here...

http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2013/03/reducing-checkboxes.html

~B
Pity it doesn't work on Ubuntu, and I'd assume Windows. Looks pretty interesting.
Nice, I'll try it out.

Direct link to the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/intab-beta/bfaekma...

And for Windows: The key combination is Windows-Alt-Leftclick.
Public fields for immutable objects are fine, but adding thread safety later is difficult if you use them.
facebook and twitter both allow you to export data directly from them in a human & machine readable format (nice html pages along with json)... why would you use rss instead?
This proviso doesn't mention intellectual property, so I'm still wondering what basis you have for the claim that CISPA is now "specifically restricted from applying… to intellectual property misappropriation".

This proviso wouldn't have helped Swartz (13 count indictment: 2 counts 'Wire Fraud' to obtain valuables; 5 counts 'Computer Fraud' to obtain unauthorized computer access and valuables; 5 counts 'Unlawfully Obtaining Information from a Protected Computer'; 1 count 'Recklessly Damaging a Protected Computer'). It wouldn't have helped Auernheimer (2 count indictment: 'Conspiracy to Access a Computer without Authorization', and 'Fraud in Connection with Personal Information').

Scanning this EXCLUSION verbiage, it's hard to imagine cases where there are "efforts to gain unauthorized access" but it's an act that "solely involve[s] violations of consumer terms of service", and yet still does not "otherwise constitute unauthorized access". It's almost self-contradictory, with that last 'otherwise' clause ruling most things back in. Law enforcement can allege in 'good faith', during the CISPA information-sharing that happens before court proceedings, that almost any anomalous traffic pattern is (or is working up towards) "unauthorized access". So send the feds all the suspicious maybe-cybersecurity-crime logs, it's the low-risk path.

I suppose this exclusion might theoretically help someone who maybe used 'curl' to access a website when the 'consumer terms of service' said only a desktop browser is allowed. But then if this curl-user went so far as to change the User-Agent to do this? That's now Computer/Wire Fraud – to circumvent the technical (not ToS) access protections. So send the feds all the related logs, just to be safe.

Similarly, say a user tampers with cookies to exceed a technically-enforced (but unmentioned in the ToS) 10-article-quota. That seems to still "otherwise constitute unauthorized access" beyond any ToS violation. So send the feds all the related logs, it's only prudent.

This isn't a very reassuring 'EXCLUSION'.
I gathered most of that. My confusion was that people on the bitcoin forum were implying that performing loads of 1 Satoshi transactions was financially beneficial for SD somehow, as well as to miners.
FYI some post offices, in NSW at least, have an "early bird" collection window for parcels and PO Box holders. My local opens from 07:30 to 08:30 IIRC. Handy for avoiding the queues.
Canada Post put parcel lockers in the lobby of my building before Christmas this year, too.

http://instagram.com/p/TT99kWmyd5/
Also, because no one uses SSDs and those definitely don't have a limited number of writes. That said, they could make it smarter ("We see that you're using an SSD but you have some free space on this other disk. Should we use that for cache instead? Click here to read more about SSD write cycles...") or just cache in RAM only.
How many gigs of RAM it uses to perform a simple external DB table lookup and fill a templated html table?) External authentication?

What if 100 pending requests and a few stalled connections (third-world wifi/GSM?)
Glad it works on Windows. I don't have a Windows machine to test it out.
I can understand that. I guess I've gotten used to the close pinky curl-under that hits Ctrl just right.
Here's a Youtube video that shows it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ugcbwmDzMc
I think the article misses some of the scaling issues. Finland has, I think, 1.5 million school age children, while the US has ~84 million to educate.

I'm far more interested in the classroom "flipping" model[0] coming out of Colorado. It combines the scaling advantages of online video lectures with supervised group practice. I don't think it has been fully studied yet, but it sounds very interesting.

[0] http://www.npr.org/2012/12/07/166748835/more-teachers-flippi...
It's not convenient in Australia to have packages delivered, if you're not there when they're delivered then they generally end up either at the Post Office or at some random courier's warehouse in an out of the way part of town.
ReportChef: Exception reporting for Chef (both solo & serve)
from the comments of the article: this was not an official Nikon repair center. very cool nonetheless
TL;DR

If you only buy or mine bitcoins - you are safe.
Once you'll try to exchange them for real money - you must be regulated.
> "It has the same programmer dread that Sharepoint has."

Ultimate zing. That's my experience too.

There are so many great options that I can't for the life of me think why you'd pick Drupal. Maybe you had to choose between Drupal and Joomla?

> "It is at EOL."

Exactly this.
The only reason I'm not doing that is because I'm anchored by Python's stats libraries.
Soon enough we'll be suggesting relevant and reaching hashtags - even before reports are complete.
Two racks of baby back ribs. Bam, 5k calories, and that's not even all of the food I could eat in one day.

Damn I love me some ribs.

Or nuts - a cup of peanut butter has 1500 calories. Doughnuts, pastries, cheesecake, pancakes... Hell, a beer. Have 2 beers a day, you've burned through a good 500 calories. Real cream in your coffee, real sugar in your drinks.

If you're burning serious calories, you don't get to eat prissy. Look at what they eat in Antarctica.
DDT Vanishes from Ocean off Los Angelese
I think that matches up pretty well with the past year of my life. I'm almost always busy but never in a rush. I definitely feel the happiest I've ever been.
How to convert PVR video to AVI
5
i didn't even imply that.
It's not the proof by induction is a hard concept, though.

Rather, writing out any formal proof is monotonous, tedious, lengthy, and prone to minor screw-ups, and to someone with an engineering mindset, not useful in any practical sense.
Probably could add some lemon to cut the flavor I suspect.

No harm in having something that tastes good, and cooking is one of the best hacks there is.
IANAL but that is not true; they can only seize your property, and even then civil bankruptcy is still an option. You do not go to jail for violating a civil judgement.
So Lynn root says holy effing crap in the tweet.

I am so offended. Why do women say things like this. I am so hurt. I wish someone showed her the code of conduct. Women talking about fucking is just not nice.
Learning is just like Lego
What do you eat? Eat more butter. More olive oil. More nuts.

A cup of peanuts has 800 calories.

Hell, eat meat - a rack of ribs has 2500 calories. Something akin to that every evening, with a couple beers and some broccoli and cheese, heavy on the cheese, is 4000 calories in one meal.

There are burritos at Chipotle that have 2k calories for one burrito.
BTC seems to like that announcement. It's still climbing.
And a direct link to his blog post about it, eliminating the trip through Designer News first: http://iansilber.com/intab/
2013 Design Conferences
Feedly bookmarklet and RSS extension coded and available
At this point, it seems like working with Google technologies (like Chrome and reader) is turning more into doing a uphill battle where you have to hack your way to an end, as opposed to just doing what you want.

At that point, why not just use something open and welcoming instead?
> I was actually surprised by how hard it was to fit all of the daily nutrient requirements into a recipe with about 2000-2500 calories (while also avoiding nutrient overdoses). It would be great if someone would create a website for "nutritionally complete" recipes, especially recipes that are cheap and easy to make with a good blender or crockpot.

I hit the same wall when I overturned my eating habits and tried to fit all my nutrients into my three-meals-a-day habit. I succeeded by tweaking things but then it dawned on me I could spread out all the nutrients on a week. It made recipes composition much easier.

It wasn't some kind of soylent though but "regular" meals.
consider what the computer market would look like if we could now buy the flagship CPU from 3-4 years ago for little more than the marginal cost on a mature process.

If that was what the market wanted, don't you think that is what the market would get? I think the trouble is you are thinking "the marginal cost on a mature process" would be a few dollars.

You're right, the silicon would be a few dollars- but after testing and packaging and all that jazz, I believe most mainstream high performance desktop CPUs have a marginal cost of around $30. (Why not cheaper, like a 10MHz ARM chip? Package is expensive, due to cooling needs and pins for power & DRAM interface) So, perhaps you bring it to market for $40.

This chip you're selling probably performs like a mid-range part in today terms, in the $100-150 range. But when you consider TCO due to power draw and cooling, the numbers start to get closer.

I haven't carefully laid this out on paper or anything, but point being, if such a chip would sell so well, why is nobody doing it?

It becomes much clearer if you increase the contrast by comparing today's parts to those from a decade ago. The clocks are similar, but the performance has come a long ways due to improvements in IPC, multicore, updates to the memory interface, etc.
I am NOT the OP but I think the answers to your questions are pretty clear. Crass jokes about in the anatomical parts male or female are not appropriate in a professional setting where you don't know everybody who is sitting nearby. There's no need to go into complex discussions about sexual or power dynamics.
Immediate action is needed because unlike the workplace there would be no opportunity to speak with these people later
On my 512MB Linode, repeating this command 10 times:

74.5, 70.5, 55.4, 56.1, 84.8, 75.1, 73.7, 58.0, 67.5, 61.8

Average of 67.7 MB/s

Dallas
Slight tangent:

What is the status on the tax implications and the legality of online gambling with bitcoin? There are a few places online that let you play poker etc. with bitcoins. Is that legal in the US? How are winnings taxed?

The wiki(https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tax_compliance#Are_my_bitcoins_ta...) talks about "Income that is earned through the exchange of services with another person, whether in the form of bitcoins, dollars, or barter;". Would income through gambling fall in that category?
Sounds a lot like most enterprise development. You don't write much code in that line of work day-to-day, you do lots of plumbing instead. With Java I found myself spending as much time writing XML to get A wired up to B as I was writing Java code.

I also remember using Hippo CMS on a project that wasn't well suited to it. That was the double whammie of enterprise Java and all its warts (complicated maven build system, XML coming out of my ears) AND the 'square peg, round hole' problem whereby the sold solution isn't actually remotely possible with the technology chosen out of the box.

It was around that time I quit that job.
This was not meant to be a silly joke, but a serious statement. The use of capitals is warranted by the language's syntax.
FitText - A plugin for inflating web type
I keep MSG on hand for all dishes that involve meat. It's easy enough to get at most Asian/Indian stores and when combined with properly seared meat, is amazing.
At the costs given, Soylent provides over 500 Calories/dollar.
I've been an early adopter of this since May 2012. I've used it quite a lot and it's great. The mileage is going to be on how other courier services are accepted. If you have a package couriered to this address from anyone but StarTrack, it's not going to be accepted. So for national deliveries this service is great, however international shipping (which is generally couriered) ends up being a problem. Either way you should sign up if you're Australian, this is the best thing Auspost have done in years.
Stop Working at that Coffee Shop! Alternative Places to do Work
I like that the article ends with the idea of killing Google Apps, because ad-revenue and defending it against Facebook could be more important.

If they kill Google Docs, etc., will people move back from the cloud after loosing everything?
مشاهدة مباراة الزمالك وطلائع الجيش بث مباشر
How to Start a Online Business
We see this behaviour in lots of industries. Car manufacturers will nerf the lower end vehicles so that there is more 'value' in purchasing a higher end car for enthusiasts.

And to hit a little more close to home - think of all the web companies doing exactly the same thing. There are usually 3 or 4 price points, each segment operating within the same code, but features enabled for the higher price points.

I see the same thing happening here. The 'performance' of the cards are the same after this hack, but the driver software 'lights up' exposing extra features. You could say the price differences pay for the driver features.
Site down :(

Here's a mirror: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1483019/intab/index.html
This all kind of sounds like the Jevity that they gave my dad in ICU. Apparently you can stay on it for quite some time. http://abbottnutrition.com/Products/jevity-1_2-cal
Ugh, this just makes me cringe.
Sorry; I should have specified that I only used the example input.
digital cash != secure digital cash system

Bitcoin is digital cash, in the colloquial usage of the term cash. Somewhat anonymous, liquid, and typically possessed by the owner.
If ram were the only thing in consideration, perhaps. I doubt linode want to compete with digital ocean given their prices start at $5 a month. That's not enough to give decent support to any number of people, though I'm sure they promise it. If linode double ram I'll be very happy with the comparison with budget providers (who are great for some people/uses of course).
This article is rather sparse on details.
You're right, I only gave a half-answer. We do have lws against sedition [1]. Having grown up around UK common law, I carelessly linked to libel instead - it's called 'seditious libel' over there. But that's probably not what you meant when you referred to libel. I'm sorry for the confusion and for not reading the link I posted more carefully.

1. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385?quicktabs_8=1...
How to Sell a Business
Or just stay anonymous and save the tax.

Really, do smuglers pay the tax of their profit on frugs, as thry are required to?