skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you're betraying more than you realize by focusing on weapons as a proxy for tactics; professionals focus on logistics

Oh, ok then you shouldn't mind eliminating some types of weapons like assault rifles. Any revolutionary force attempting to throw off a tyrannical U.S. gov't will just use tactics and logistics.

As for nuclear weapons, they're only relevant if you expect the government's response to be the nuking of opposition cities.

Exactly. So nukes should be legal to own just as much as assault rifles. There is no other way to throw off the U.S. gov't. But only crazy people would think nukes should be legal - so that whole throw off the gov't argument is rubbish, and assault rifles won't help there either.

to require its (very careful) overthrow

My point was in fact that there is no such thing as an armed "very careful" overthrow of the U.S. gov't. Such a thing is complete nonsense, like unicorns.
you are a gentleman and a scholar. thank you.
Similar, a subreddit called "somebody make this" http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis
Facts everyone should know about oil exploration
Because (C)omic (S)ans? It all makes sense now.
What Makes Rain Smell So Good?
Here are some results from a research team that has been on the forefront of FHE implementations; note that this has been improved on significantly since last August, but you are still looking at minutes of computation for relatively small functions:

http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/archive/2012/CRYPTO/presentatio...

Also, throwing "clustering" at every problem is misguided. Not all problems are easily parallelized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-complete
I'm sure with enough digging around I could find this out for myself, but could someone familiar with things comment on how the performance of these boxes compares to a standard ATI card miner?
From the PDF, it sounds like they are exploring advanced information retrieval techniques like local context analysis, sentiment analysis, and person/company/location recognizers.

These ideas have been around for a while, and some of them are starting to become more prevalent (phone number recognizers in phones, location recognizers to link to a map, etc.).

Here's an example paper that talks about local context analysis:

http://www.cs.uml.edu/~haim/teaching/iws/tirsaa/sources/ACM_...
The Silicon Valley Toxic Waste Heat Map
On some level, the fact that compliance regulations exist is an indication that security is not a priority for many of the entities that it applies to.

Certainly snake-oil is a problem, but I think this particular area is one where buyers are most concerned about being able to effectively claim that they made what seemed like reasonable efforts.
In my first comment I wasn't talking about safety, I was talking specifically about deterrence. In my second comment, I was doing a poor job of getting to the part where you need to get the populace on board to drive this. This is why the magnitude of the incident is important. People are much, much more interested in stopping the bomber who injures 130 than the driver who flees an accident. Maybe it's not rational, maybe proportionality can be called into question, but the whole damn world was on board for catching these two men.

I was trying to avoid typing an essay on a subject I can't write a good essay about, but to try and keep things short my theory is that terrorists evoke an unusually strong response because it feels more personal, for a number of reasons. The first that I always think about is the magnification through social connections. Those 130+ people probably have at least 5 family members, 5 friends, and 5 co-workers each. So we've got at least 2,000 people who feel directly impacted- someone they know was personally hurt. Fan that out to only one more degree, and you've got 30,000 people who know somebody whose friend was injured.

Summary: You've got to get the people on-board to make such an effort. Terrorism can get people on-board like nothing else, aside from open war.
> Actually, I don't keep any gunpowder under my sink....

Thanks for pointing that out. I've updated my description of the bombs.

> ... omitting the rather significant context ...

That's kind of my point. The terrorists chose to plant the bomb at a marathon rather than, say, a deserted wilderness, to maximise the reaction.

Do you think the presence of dozens of video cameras was a factor in the bombers' calculations?

> As for a city shutdown, that could just as easily be interpreted as 'whole city cooperates to catch bombing suspect.'

And this is where I disagree. Much of the shutdown was, in one way or another, directed from the top.
An 8088 was a 16-bit cpu with an 8-bit bus, so it was slower (and cheaper) but ran exactly the same code.
I'm enrolled in this class now--pretty funny to see it on the front page of HN.

For anyone who's interested, the lectures generally consist of very high-level views of various elements of programming; anything from version-control to a C++.

IMO the best parts of the lectures are Kernighan's anecdotes: he constantly drops in stories from his time at Bell Labs, and even includes some correspondences and comments from the very programmers who created the technologies on which he lectures.
Boston doesn't need this guy to give an incriminating statement to put him away for the rest of his life. Just the multiple shootouts with police (which produced a lot of evidence and witnesses) would do the trick.

What the feds are really interested in is the intelligence they can gather in regards to terrorist activity. If this is part of something bigger, the feds need to figure it out.
How else would Apple make Siri better? If they used no research on their products, the end product would be a big failure. Apple maps on release, was far from accurate. Apple maps now, a lot better.
I'm not seeing read items being marked as such.
Is that on the roadmap?
Memory is a Skill of the Past
>>here in Norway they have a 5 year (goverment mandated) warranty

By any chance, are you talking about the same warranty that I get for 1 year in USA or in India when I buy an Apple product or any product at all?

The vanilla warranty that comes in the box without purchasing any extra warranty/care/support product?
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I'm actually a believer in removing management, at least of the traditional do-as-I-say variety.

The only credibility that has any place in anything is the credibility that comes from making others' lives easier-- solving their problems, teaching them, building things they want.
I think the actual violence committed for whatever reason - invading countries, blowing up weddings and children with remote drone strikes, keeping prisoners without legal framework in gitmo - these things are several orders of magnitude worse than violent games and movies

Games and movies are merely ways of processing these real world events - all violence begets violence. Those kids we blow up today with drones, one of their brothers, sisters, or even just friends will eventually come back to us. For example, to senselessly kill innocent people at a marathon.

Boston bombings are a good example - the chechen war / rebellion was a bloodbath, fought ruthlessly and largely off the cameras. It just came back to us.

Violence begets violence, throughout the history of humanity. Its up to us to stop the cycle. We cant do much about conflicts in faraway countries - except maybe to stay out of them. But we can do things we are directly responsible for - CIA operations come to mind, and of course the drone war.
That means 50 cities that have a startup that has a billion+ $ exit, so then the trickle effects can do their thing..
High-end ATI cards will do < 1GH/s, with most midrange cards below 500MH/s. This does 5GH/s, while using an essentially an order of magnitude less power than a PC-based rig will use.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
Are you able to actually solve problems (with leadership) instead of just pointing them out? You have no track record of that.... in fact, just the opposite. But if you managed to change things around you could become an easy hire and own a new niche. Maybe even start a nice big company around it. Work pro bono on two major things, show measured improvements on dimensions you promised to improve, and then ask for your contract rate.
The general population doesn't even understand that Facebook can read their messages. I wouldn't be surprised if some people didn't even know that Siri needs an internet connection and a data center to process to voice commands, never mind the storage of that data.

I think we seriously have an issue with educating the public about how modern technologies work. I don't expect everyone to know how to code, but they should have a basic understanding of what is happening with their data while they use all these 'magical' devices.
I think part of the labor should go into something useful to society though.
Do you remember any? I'd love to hear some!
> If 99 cells have identical formulas

If we want to enter 99 identical (or relatively identical) formulas into 99 cells, then we should be able to select all 99 cells, and enter the formula once without any dragging. If we want to change that formula, we should be able to change it once and not need to remember to redrag. We should be able to enter a formula into the column heading and know it'll apply whenever relevant to every cell in a column. That we can't means Excel (and Lotus and OpenOffice) is defective.

What QA is to blame for isn't letting unfinished spreadsheets out the door, but rather for letting users in a company use defective tools like Excel and Lotus and OpenOffice in the first place.

Many of us developers learnt the hard way that visual programming tools from the 1990's don't work, which is why scripting languages became popular. Users in corporations (and the IT staff who authorize what tools that can use) need learn the same lesson.
I imagine very few people will question the political decisions here because it requires imagination to account for the unseen. Hazlitt famously wrote about this in Economics in One Lesson. What ground breaking research at MIT didn't get done Friday? What important meetings were delayed? And then what does that add up to when you multiply it by millions?
I've done plenty of practical things a while back (palmpowerups in PalmOS days) but nowadays I am relaxing (I work at Google and I fly planes for fun). I'll go back to doing practical things with a purpose in a year or two :)
I considered GPL, for a while, actually. I'll think of it some more
Is this meant to be a joke? Anyway, I believe you mean Makefile is missing.
I'm willing to bet that Google receive some of the best legal advice on the interpretation of the DMCA, and it seems to me that they do not normally accept notices via email.

From Google's old DMCA page[1] (cached 13 April 2013 - now directs to an automated system):

> To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written communication (by fax or regular mail and not by email, except by prior agreement)

From Google's current support pages [2]:

> Send the written communication to the following address: <postal address> OR fax to: <fax number>

> To file a counter notification with us, you must provide a written communication (by fax or regular mail -- not by email, except by prior agreement)

[1] http://www.google.co.uk/dmca.html
[2] http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=112...
I work this out to be about 180 Mhash/J, which is 80-100x more energy efficient than any GPU mining.

Also, for anyone wondering: At current difficulty and rate of exchange this will cost you <$0.10 a day to run and generate $40 of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin: a test for hackers
Which fluids are you talking about specifically? I've very little knowledge of anatomy but I think most of the liquids in our body are in "closed-loop" pressurised systems, with nowhere for the fluid to "go" whilst being forced in to motion by our muscles.
Emulator supports framebuffer emulation, and I have run gnome on this. I have not tried KDE :)
just compile, hook up ram, and run :)
The more important specification is the MHash / Joule (also found in the link below). The video says this thing does 5 GHash/s @ 30W. That's 100x the efficiency of the best videocards (1000x if you count the power consumption of the rest of the PC).
The recipient has no obligation to act on these notices in the first place. Lost in the spam filter has the same result as purposeful inaction -- the service provider hasn't (by choice or otherwise) taken advantage of the offer of limited liability they could accept by disabling access to the listed content without a court order.
I forgot to say - the violence we commit on others affects us just as much as them, the perpetrator is as much a victim as the victim.

I recently read the story of the most efficient sniper in the US military, a man who killed well over 200 people in various US wars around the world. Who shot and killed two armed would be carjackers in Texas in a way that would be fit for a dirty harry movie (shot them with his back turned to them). The cycle was complete when he was himself shot and killed while taking friends shooting. Could it ever have ended another way?

But most of these cycles are much longer, spanning generations.
Actually, if the target of a DMCA notice files a counter-notice, the ISP has to reinstate the content within 10 days unless the person/entity filing the DMCA notice alerts the ISP that an injunction has been filed within a specified period of time. See 17 USC § 512(g)(2)(A)-(C).
The options are to sue them in their foreign country or sue them in the United States. If you sue them in the US, you face jurisdictional issues (do they have sufficient contacts in the US to make a lawsuit here fair?) as well as judgment recognition issues (you would probably have to attach the damage award to a contract they have with someone in the US to collect if the foreign country court system doesn't recognize the US judgment).
Developing a Larson Scanner
I'm sure the same thing was said during the gold rush days and it was the store owners that sold prospecting equipment that made some very stable money.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4872999
I pulled her off, and then felt awful about it. Luckily you can put her back on.

I'm not sure what about it is so effective.
What's the intrinsic risk in inline javascript? My site uses it to provide page specific data and I'm not really seeing any obvious security risks with it ... then again most security risks aren't obvious!
Church's writing is consistently insightful and interesting. This is a silly attack.
I am so incredibly jealous of princeton CS students.
Thanks. I'll give it a read.

In addition to the samuru.com search engine, they've also created
another display of their "Liquid Helium" tech at:

http://www.unpartial.com/

There are some youtube videos about it as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DCLvBK_sEM&list=PLZ_j4Zk...
Those store owners couldn't use a thousand pickaxes simultaneously.
Yeah, I'm sure the 19 year old bleeding in the boat was feeling pretty victorious. I'm sure shutting down Boston for a day was basically his life's goal.

If the goal of terrorists is to make Americans live in fear every day, it certainly seems to me like they are losing, badly. If the goal is to make Americans uneasy for a day, whatever. I have no problems admitting I am uneasy about a guy roaming the neighborhood, armed and running from the cops. Did the terrorists just win when I admitted that?
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Currently https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk...

Although its all of a sudden introduced this nasty bug: It steals focus away from the address bar which is horrible.
It wasn't clear (to me) that this was a development box. And it certainly wasn't something npm could know -- so my point still stands. If there's a way to install packages globally, then they should be globally available -- also on windows. But perhaps this is documented somewhere.

As for why you would run stuff on windows, perhaps you were writing an ajax gateway to a legacy system and it made more sense to run the node server on the same machine as the legacy system?

(To be clear, I would pity you if that was the case, but you never know ;-)
> It simply mangles and hides programming. So it creates just the atmosphere were people think they can "avoid" programming and use Excel.

This attitude bothers me somewhat. I'll certainly agree that the combination of Excel's power and ease of use allowing people to model really quite complex calculations and scenarios quickly and easily, and the ease of which they can do it leads to a inappropriate level of "respect" for the gravity of what they are calculating, insufficient testing, double checks, etc, leading to some massive blunders.

But many people seem to go beyond this, asserting that one cannot do such things properly in Excel. I've actually heard one person with an absolutely straight face say that Excel should literally be taken away from engineers and finance folks, and any calculations they need to do should be custom implemented by "professional" developers who will do it "properly".

Thoughts?
I get your point and think it's well stated, I just don't see that it's valid for all types of breaking news. My usage of breaking news is mostly related to participation in the stock market. Sometimes there is breaking news that will immediately alter the outlook for stocks and bonds around the globe.

For instance, the Bank of Japan recently set a target of purchasing 60-70 trillion yen worth of long-term debt and securities per year in an effort to fight against deflation. This type of news is released unpredictably and waiting for an "end-of-week report" may not adequately meet my asset management goals.
Sounds more like human errors. It's just silly to blame the tool instead.
I will note that YouTube accepts DMCA takedown requests via email and the process is rather efficient.
I don't know of any company that's still making new netbooks, so unfortunately that option might not last too long. I like tablets, but I hate them for killing the netbook market!
Blogspam.

Real story: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/in-virginias...
Persona in course development: top-down, bottom-up, and n-of-1
There wasn't an assertion that depriving one person's rights necessarily (in all possible cases) guarantees others' rights. The implication was that there are real cases where this is the case.
I don't quite understand how you can say the ARM chromebook is close to the macbook air as the dualcore A15 in that thing is nowhere near the MBA performance wise. I don't doubt that it's a nice machine but ARM still has a very long way to go until they can match even low-end intel IVB CPUs.
Right now these A15s are just a little better than a 2011 budget aton core from intel.
There's a related joke: How do you know if someone thinks they might suffer from Aspeger's Syndrome?
Three abuses of "legitimize" in the synopsis alone. This is going to be painful to read.
What is the mass-market meat product that is more expensive to produce than beef?
Building a Roguelike in Javascript - Part 4: A Hero Appears
Strongly recommend the Guardian article as well as the links in there.

Also, as a friend commented -- labelling this as "an act of terrorism" has another effect: making many insurance policies void. Were it a "mass murderer" (as I believe seem to more correct, based on what we know so far of what happened) -- most of those policies would still be valid.
Very cool idea. Problem: When I choose a filter, and then click "show me more", it deletes the filter. Thus, I can only get one page of results when I use a filter.
I don't think so. They probably needed the preorder money to fully develop the device and to be able to manufacture it.
Anons versus Unite Blue?
I haven't really noticed anything, but my pingdom graph looks like an improvement, and transfers to and from AWS seem to be about 3x faster.

http://tombelote.com/linode-pingdom2012-2013.png
So you are saying we should reject out of hand any and all bills that could possibly be interpreted to mean something we haven't thought of?

Sorry for the snark, but my point is laws are always like that, and there needs to be some trust somewhere. (The system is supposed to be structured that you may trust the system, if not the books- checks and balances and whatnot) If you have nothing you can trust, you're up a crick without a paddle.
The chart stops at 2010, many more bitcoins have been mined since.
Thanks for your answer. I have two questions if you don't mind:

- Are reciprocal judgements possible in a lawsuit such as this hypothetical example?

- What is to stop the defendent from liquidating and reappearing as a new legal entity?
That's kind of my point. The terrorists chose to plant the bomb at a marathon rather than, say, a deserted wilderness, to maximise the reaction.

Do you think the presence of dozens of video cameras was a factor in the bombers' calculations?

Of course, but what are we supposed to do - impose a news blackout as China does in Tibet?

directed from the top

I feel fine about that. Coordination isn't the same as coercion, and there was no curfew or mandatory aspect to this.
This waxing and waning of mining devices is certainly going to become the norm.

* Buy up $10K worth of devices

* Make your money while flooding the market with fast and easy BTC

* Sell off all your hardware after the profit margins have cratered

* Wait for new hardware and rinse and repeat

Personally I will be extremely glad when the first wave hits as the hoarders will start feeling the pinch of inflation.
Microsoft just sponsored Daring Fireball
Yeah, it was very creepy how the mainstream media never questioned the ramifications of an entire city being under newspeak "lockdown".

I'm sure there are lots of authoritarian types in government who are very pleased with how docile the sheeple were during the manhunt for the Boston bomber.
Thousands of people lined up in the streets Wednesday night for a chance at a seat inside the city's Cathedral for Thursday's memorial service. That doesn't sound like the behavior of a population living in fear, since they were making themselves a target by gathering together in that fashion.
Does that download posterous as well, or only upcoming?
To be honest, I'd rather solve problems with real work and lead by doing. I enjoy work a lot more than I enjoy yelling at people.

I think I'm poisoned by corporate environments (a startup being the worst) where you have to yell at people for days to get the permissions necessary to do a few hours of real work. I fucking hate that shit. Eventually, people stop yelling at each other about work (because they forget how to work) and are just yelling about the yelling. That's what Corporate America really is: recursive wankery with almost no one really working.
Did you read the penultimate paragraph? I suspect you didn't.
^ Case in point :-)
The only real difference between bitcoin and dollars is that there's nobody with guns saying we must accept bitcoin.
Just a guess, but would it not be that the CPA protects you if you chose to be a consumer. If you are not a consumer, it doesn't apply.
I'm using this definition of 'intellectual hipster'.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...
Or alternatively, I'd love to see hom hook up with some artists - and do "stupid shit" just for the fun of it.

If this guy's not already hooked up with people like Dorkbot or Survival Research Labs or Burningman, then someone should introduce them...