skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't yet know if the "terror watch list" failed. Perhaps he was checked and they found nothing, because at that time, they weren't terrorists and weren't planning a terrorist attact at that point? We're not living in a minority-report style pre-crime detection world yet.
> we should be able to select all 99 cells, and enter the formula once without any dragging.

Agreed. You can do this by creating your own macros, but it's a pain. Considering how often I do this for personal spreadsheets, you'd think that this would have been simplified long ago.

And, this deficiency has been ported to both Numbers and Google spreadsheets.
The popular Microsoft program has been implicated in the financial crisis

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Note that this is already required by law for FDA regulated drugs and devices: http://clinicaltrials.gov
Well, considering "the second suspect" was possibly armed to the teeth, and maybe wearing a suicide vest, the hope was that, yeah, a regular person would not stumble on him and get killed. The guy who found him got lucky, it sounds like.
I tried to make it an obvious parody, but if it's too close for comfort I will change it even more.

It's more about showing players our sales data and giving faces to the developers of their games. The Kickstarter parody aspect of it is intended to be humorous more than anything.
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Transparency in electronic voting machines
Is there a way to make a vote counting machine be fraud proof? Saying that it uses open source is not enough because there needs to be proof that the executing code is the same as the open source code. It doesn't have to use a computer at all if there is a way to mechanically engineer this or other solution then that would work too. I was thinking that something like bitcoin's system might work, but not sure. Btw, I'm not making this system, just curious.
You can't state that as fact either. It's possible the lock down and house to house search left the suspect with no other choice but to find a hiding place and stay there. If residents remained on the streets it's possible he could have slipped away.
Great. Keeps it simple.

On a side note, can anyone build a cool ROT13 converter? There are some, but they are showing their age.
Good question. They are obviously similar in that they are both IRC and more. The key is in the 'more' part.

One thing I'm working on is file sharing. This already works in the web client. Desktop is going to be tricky, involving DCC probably.

Currently my search/history story is not so strong, but that's also being worked on: https://github.com/znc/znc/pull/325
A TSA agent was once similarly telling me how it "emits less radiation than a cell phone" after I opted out. I of course couldn't care as opposed to how invasive it is. I think as a public we tend to value our health, almost unhealthily; but when it comes to civil rights or privacy, we don't care as long as we're not effected.
certainly the lens and sensor are the biggest trade offs with price these would have the biggest impact with image clarity and the amount of light taken in to take the image.
I sort of understand the reasoning behind App.net, but I'm worried that its developer focus will prevent many average users from joining the service and prevent it from really providing the social layer that's necessary to actually build something network-driven out of it.

The reason Facebook and Twitter are popular platforms are not necessarily because of their particular features or user data but because of the massive networks they represent. By tying our products to their ecosystem, you're able to leverage their technologies and data while still having a large enough addressable market. This is definitely not the case with App.net (at least so far).

I think what App.net might have that's unique is an active developer community (as opposed to a mass of average users), so perhaps it can standalone as a developer-friendly social platform, but I'm questionable as to whether anything of mass market value can come out of it, especially on the B2C side.
What if you wore something like this: http://www.spfxmasks.com/ourmasks.php ?

One should be able to blend in, and make video surveillance pretty useless...

Edit: Did work for this robbers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-disg...
Thanks! I changed my search tactics and finally found the FCC Antenna System Registration system, located at http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrRegistrationSea...

The mapping leaves much to be desired but should be sufficient to put together my own map using the data.

Unfortunately the tower I was hoping to find information on does not appear to be registered in this particular database.
It's expensive in the UK too if you buy a brand name painkiller. It's depressing that they can still sell them when the identical generic medication is next to them on the shelf and is 1/10 of the price.
The solution to many problems is eliminating patents, and not just in one area. We, collectively, act as if we're enriching inventors when probably we're hurting them with these laws.

If we really cared about rewarding invention we'd pay inventors. But instead all we do is give them a letter of marque and tell them to steal it from others.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, pass a law to confiscate it.
In the very next sentences, Tesla elaborates on that he is referring to pollution on beaches and unsanitary drinking water. That's why this is most closely connected to the EPA.
I don't get it. How is this a reverse kickstarter?
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Brilliant concept IMHO. A lot of people don't realise the amount of work that goes into creating this kind of stuff, and sadly the race to the bottom that's happened with games on the app store has meant in a lot of cases it's hard to for developers these days to justify the large development costs.

I also love that you've given it a price and not gone with a freemium model. I'd much rather pay $5 for a (good) game up front than be constantly annoyed with offers to "buy more coins" etc.
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Thank you for the article.

In a real life scenario, surveillance camera images are all you will get to work with, most likely. So maybe, the focus should be on figuring a way out to recognize individuals based on images taken at those angles. Is there any progress in this regard?
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> switch the hashing algorithm

OH boy now this is interesting -- to an outsider like me, explain who would decide this? Some central committee? The source-code "custodian"? Will BTC fork at that point so every holder can "vote with their (pardon) dollar" but would also need to bet on everyone else's choice?
A lot of fun, even if most the ideas are nonsense or impossible. If you were to build this out further, I'd add more phrases like "There has to be a better way" (i.e. https://twitter.com/rdegges/status/325885686404227072 )
I'm still confused as to whether he's being serious or trolling us hard.
Possibly a dumb question, by why is it called acetaminophen in some places and paracetamol in others? Neither of them are a brand name AFAIK.
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And for outdoor cameras, how often do the lenses get cleaned? I'd think that in a city center, with lots of car exhaust, etc. they'd be pretty dusty/greasy in just a few months. HD won't help much if there's a film of diesel exhaust soot on the lens.
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> "People who say humans are not similar able have a vague faith that humans are far smarter than they really are."

Prenote: I apologize in advance if my entire response is off-topic, because my English parser was completely unable to take anything meaningful from this sentence.

When you have a system of axioms, both consistent and complete, which proves all useful properties of arithmetic and algebra, let us know.

Whether or not you are able to understand the deepness of connection between Godel's theorems, formal systems, self-similarity, and intelligence, you can't deny that the more statistical / 'organic' AIs are overwhelmingly more successful than rigidly logical ones. For example, try implementing voice recognition analytically, and let us know your results (have fun with that).

The point is that although some people would like to believe otherwise, human brains (and nonhuman brains) are NOT logical reasoning machines. Humans are not rational agents. It still surprises me how many people are desperately grasping to rational agents and similar frameworks to try to build general intelligences entirely from logic. I point out Godel's theorems as one type of insight into why this road will lead you nowhere. You're free to pursue it as much as you like, just as animals are free to run in circles chasing their tail.

You can't build an AI capable of thinking outside the box, by specifically building that AI in the box of a particular logical framework. Logic itself has limitations. Logic is powerful, but not entirely in of itself -- logic is powerful as a tool extended by the mind of its creator(s). The more meaningful question in AI, is how do we create logical concepts to begin with?
Excel is not particularly rewriting data cells in spreadsheets. When importing other formats, it has some automatic conversions that people apparently find convenient. It's a little bit pedantic, but a text file with some sort of structured format is not the same thing as a spreadsheet.

It probably doesn't make any sense to apply automatic conversions to formats that are more or less defined by convention, but if you mark a column in an Excel file as text, Excel won't apply magic to that column.

The bigger problem is that it is considered acceptable to not keep a record of the changes being made to the data (a script can serve nicely as both a data processor and a record of the processing being done).
...or more generally the CLI vs GUI argument
Probably because the cost of surveillance cameras is more than just the cost of the resolution or storage. the ones that hang outside need to be weather proof and vandalism proof. they were probably bought as part of a large and expensive system, intended to be paid off over 10-15 years[0], to replace all those cameras whenever more resolution becomes available, is probably quite expensive, regardless of how cheap the actual camera is. It's a lot of cameras, in a lot of hard-to-reach places, with expensive reinforced casings, and would the output format of the cameras be compatible with the old system?

OTOH, I do actually see more and more HD (or relatively high def) surveillance footage. It all depends on how when the security system was installed, I guess. Also smaller businesses can afford a shorter turnaround for these things, as well as not having the handicap of a head-start[1].

[0] actually I'm guessing those lifetime spans, it seems a bit much? but I also can't see anyone signing off on a security system that's expected to be replaced in 5 years. good thing my job isn't facility management ... :P

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_s... , how odd, is there no common English phrase for this law?
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Its chemical name is para-acetylaminophenol. That's what the names acetaminophen and paracetamol are derived from.

para-ACETylAMINOPHENol

PARa-ACETylAMinophenOL
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Why would I pay for IRC?
I think this is the key: different licences for different markets and needs. Linux needs the GPL, Rails needs MIT, not because one license is better than the other, but because each license enables the success of the project within the target market ecosystem.

Perhaps the reasons behind this could be studied more, but I think it comes down to something about how generic the software is, whether it can be extended/used effectively in commercial realms without being unnaturally restricted by the license, and what level/type of contributions are required for the continued success of the project. Both licenses work extremely well for their respective projects.

Similarly, I run a GPL project, and I couldn't imagine using a more permissive license, but the product is standalone and the GPL just works well for the situation. This is all making more sense to me now, thanks for your continued thoughts.
> It's depressing that they can still sell them

You may feel better about this if you take some Tylenol ;-)

I don't see how there's anything wrong with selling brand-name drugs next to generics. In fact people that believe brand name drugs are more effective will have a better response to the more expensive drug because of the placebo effect. If anything, they're getting a better response to the same dose of the same drug than the rest of us plebs that know better than to pay a multiple of the cost of the generic.
The problem with QR codes is that they are 'mystery meat'.
That is some really utterly fascinating spin right there.

Next up: criminals are not really responsible for crime, since "government entities" like municipal police forces supposedly "strictly enforce" criminal conduct.

I'm going to take a wild guess here and assume you've never had anything whatsoever to do with a clinical trial, because the modern FDA has almost nothing to do with the way a clinical trial is conducted.

A pharma company (the capitalists) writes the protocol the way they want, and hires a university/researcher to run the study. They file a simple two page form with the FDA to apply for an "indication" to study a treatment. The university/researcher gets the university IRB to sign off on the study protocol. Sometimes, if the IRB is any good at all, they'll tweak the protocol to try to protect the research subjects. But guess who picks the IRB members? The university/researcher making money off the capitalist pharma company. Guess how that influences an IRB.

The FDA has no input. There is no supervision in any meaningful sense by the FDA. The capitalists - researcher and sponsor - run every aspect of the study. Each decision is theirs.

The decisions spelled out in the article were made by the capitalists - the pharma company and researchers.

Barring some complete misstep like all the active arm study patients suddenly dropping dead, the FDA will eventually (read: years after the study is completed) examine the data (typically highly massaged by the capitalists) from the study to make a determination on whether to approve a medication for sale.

But pretending that the FDA (especially after years of being stripped of regulatory powers by, you guessed it, capitalists who buy and sell legislators) has much of anything to do with the way a clinical trial is conducted is complete bullshit.
I think he means that if you discovered and exploited a bug in a common OS the way farmville manipulated actual minds, you'd be thrown in jail.
There are only 2048 layers. I used the statistics from [1] at 5:20 from day one.

Layer 1, 66,631,501 cubelets remaining on the current layer and 33,982,651 cubelets destroyed in total. Because it is the first layer it is made up out of 66,631,501 + 66,631,501 = 100,614,152 cubelets. An estimate of the edge length is obtained by dividing by 6 faces and taking the square root and this yields 4,095.0000407. It is a bit counterintuitive - at least for me - but the actual edge length is 4,096. I would have expected that counting the edges twice and the corners trice becomes insignificant for large edge lengths but if you do the math you will see that this approximation has the limit n - 1 as n goes to infinity.

So because every layer adds 2 to the edge length there are 2048 layers. That is bad - there is no central cubelet because the edge length is not odd. Maybe this is the hidden secret. I guess they used 4096 because it simplifies texturing the thing, implementing level of detail or stuff like that, does it? Or they have 8 secrets in there to make it a tiny bit more fair.

One more thing, the number of cubelets on the surface of a cube with edge length n is n^3 - (n - 2)^3 - the whole cube minus the smaller cube under the surface. Plugging in 4096 yields the number obtained from the statistics so we probably made no mistake.

Okay, let's fix the other numbers, too. The cube started with 68,719,476,736 cubelets. I assume the current layer was 263 - the statistics gives the number of layers removed and layer 263 seems to be more consistent with the time of the comment - and there are 23,220,183,736 cubelets in those layers. Subtracting the 17,758,801 cubelets remaining yields 23,202,424,935 cubelets destroyed in 166 days or roughly 139.8 million cubelets per day. There are 45,517,051,801 cubelets remaining and assuming the same rate of destruction this yields roughly 326 days to go.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giEykqDoUCQ
AFAIK you don't need much computing power, you just need to be lucky to be the first one to solve the problem and create a new hash. I case you have lot's of tries even a 0.05% chance every 10 minutes might be enough.

Not sure if i make a mistake here, but it seems to be easy.

0,5 < (n choose 1) * (1-0.0005)^n

0,5 < 1 * (1-0.0005)^n

log(0,5)/log(1-0.0005) < n

1385.95 < n

13860 minutes < 10 days

So a 50% chance in 10 days. If you have a 0.05% of the computing power of the whole network.
This is still my favorite Asimov story, and I've a big chunk of his canon.
So it would be a combination of the coders, the miners, and the community. Yes, this would definitely require a hard fork.
It seems disingenuous to say that facial recognition failed. As far as I can tell, all the images we had of these suspects were either very low-resolution, taken from angles, or both. Seems plausible that law enforcement didn't have any good candidate images from which to run a facial recognition search.

> In the end it was mostly dumb luck

What? Painstaking police work went in to getting images of these suspects, and the release of those photos are almost certainly what led to Thursday's events and, ultimately, the killing and capture of the suspects.

> the city lockdown failed (the guy smoking the cigarette outside when he saw the blood was technically violating the lockdown)

Firstly, the lockdown is what forced suspect #2 to hide out in a boat instead of fleeing the area. Secondly, and less importantly, the guy smoking a cigarette wasn't violating the lockdown. It had ended prior to him going outside.

Was there luck involved? Of course. But there was also tremendous work done by a number of law enforcement agencies - without which, the suspects may never have been killed and captured.
The full chemical name (but not the IUPAC name) is N-acetyl-para-aminophenol. Acetaminophen and paracetamol are just various shortenings of the name. Likely whatever is popular in a location just comes down to whatever dominant drug manufacturer chose to call it in their public facing material.
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This is not far from the truth. In certain cases large solutions have been already developed to take into account any variation in implementation, accuracy or behavior.

With millions of custom solutions based on Excel floating around , "fixing" issues where calculations suddenly give different results would be highly counterproductive and potentially dangerous.
Changes to the Bitcoin protocol can be ratified by a majority of miners, in the same "longest blockchain" method.
3x? More like 300x, I'd say. Once the first few roll out of BFL these things will be coming online as fast as you can say "money press".
I'd suggest that for most cases that are not source code that you stick with grep.
Ember tends to go completely forgotten aside from a small burst of activity yesterday.

Speaking of which, I started a project in Ember and quickly encountered the primary reason why it is dangerous to change conventions and APIs -- searching for basic information on how to do certain things brings me to various StackOverflow posts, etc, most of which are just entirely wrong now.
If you wanted to damage/degrade BTC with $1.2 million I think the "smart money" wouldn't be investing in the custom hardware to compromise it - but instead to flood the markets with liquidity. BTC is still so thinly traded that a million dumped in pieces could have a serious destabilizing affect. Not that reducing price was the actual subject of the topic but...
In Excel 2010 a review of statistical accuracy of functions and related work was done. Here is a summary of the work:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/what-s-new-chan...

Its also worth noting that Excel only guarantees a certain level of accuracy (15 digits if im not mistaken). In cases where this is highly important SSPS, MatLab , etc should be used since they offer a higher degree of accuracy.
The CA map is interesting too, because it has the cleanup sites with some information on them:
http://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/map/default.asp?global_...

It seems like gas stations typically leak a lot of gasoline into the ground. Is the burden always on the taxpayer to clean up?
Is it simply financial reasons that the USA doesn't do this?

Surely not only financial reasons. In the United States, consumer purchase of inexpensive radios that pick up police communication frequencies has been commonplace since the early 1970s (when I first owned one). I remember a Hacker News thread a year or two ago in which a European was surprised that a news report including the name of a person arrested (not tried and convicted, but just arrested) was permitted in the United States. Our historical sense in the United States is that police operations and arrests should be largely in public view, reportable by the news media and observable by the public. Different societies come up with different trade-offs on this issue, in law and in custom, but in the United States arrest records are public (and routinely reported, although often with some time lag, in local weekly newspapers) and police radio activity can be monitored by many private citizens. It was noteworthy this last week that the Boston police make more use of Twitter than many urban police departments, but the general degree of openness observed in the police response to the marathon bombings is fairly typical of the United States.
> That you jest about journalism is just an example of the systemic problem in society writ large...

The last thing I wanted was to jest about journalism. I'm an avid reader of long accounts of events. My point in putting "journalism" in quotes was that you seemed to be offering a definition to a specific term as opposed to discussing the capacity to convey information through various media.

I didn't want to argue semantics -- I wanted to discuss the capacity of Twitter to convey information quickly.

> What you should be complaining about is quality, not the function itself.

Sorry, I don't follow.
have to say mutagen is spot on.
I know right? Am I missing something here? What does this server offer extra that would explain the hefty $20p/mo pricing? I can just open a free private IRC channel on any server and use that?
Sure it is. Enough people opting out bogs down the system for all. Think of it as a form of malicious compliance.
The interface of a prime is much simpler though as a whole dimension of control is removed.
It always depends on the effect size.
As the paper points out, this an old problem. Excel is an excellent tool unlike most Microsoft applications. You learn to live the quirks. When you see the "September" genes, you just file it under "do a final cleanup and be sure this doesn't wind up in the final submission of the paper".
I am surprised that this is a surprise. Anyone who has used Excel to open a CSV file of any complexity has surely encountered incorrect, automatic "interpretations" of values as dates or numbers.