skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly have less read about their background than you have but I thought the younger brother Dzhokhar was smart at least that's what few witnesses seemed to imply. Also I would not consider failing grades on a short period of time necesseraly be qualifying as loser in making. I even think that what's make part of the learning process in college and university important is to learn to fail sometimes, learn about it and have the resilience to perseverate and improve your grades because in the end this constant struggle is what life is about. If every people struggling with life decided to make horrible actions in order to express their anger there will be no one left standing. Struggling is not an excuse for blowing up people.
If that is true, that is pretty disappointing.

I will say though that even if that is the case, at least I can buy a Macbook power supply "anywhere." I can drive down to BestBuy and buy one today.

With Dell's PSUs you can essentially only buy them from Dell's online store. I mean there are some HK sellers but they don't get certified as safe by any reputable agency. So either way, you'll be laptop-less for a week or more.

Universality is within itself a massive perk. It means the power blocks are more common, easier to obtain, and sometimes cheaper. It also means that if I buy two laptops from the same manufacturer I have a backup power brick for "free."
No, we don't have the concept of Eagle Scouts. We did have merit badges, but there wasn't much focus on getting them. We did spend a lot of time learning practical things that would help us on hikes.
You're right - those are the usual litany of legitimate objections to this kind of study - and they are good ones. So we addressed them:

1. The trials are blinded, with more advanced studies using active controls (e.g., ordinary computer games[6], adult education[1,2,3]). Study staff administering cognitive assessments are always blind, and participants are blind in studies with active controls. The human consent forms describe the studies as comparing two forms of cognitive training. This is a good blind - in one study the wife of a control participant called my to tell me her husband loved the cognitive training because the art history education made him go to the museum more with her :-)

2. Study [3] in my post was conducted by Mayo and USC (and funded by Posit - the money has to come from somewhere), studies [4],[5],[6] were conducted entirely by independent academic investigators.

3. Active control groups control for the placebo/Hawthorne effect.

As I see it, the only meaningful question is which methods work in practice - and the studies show us that. If what you mean is do we know what the mechanism of action is, we are speeding up information processing flow through the brain and making it more efficient - speaking loosely, we're improving signal/noise ratios. Reference [1] in my post has an extensive conceptual background to this approach. And we've seen that with studies of EEG/working memory [7]

[7] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2904363/
At least in Opera and Chromium you can simply right-click the search form to add it.
You can't use "every" and "depending on use" in the same sentence, as that could be said of anything. I have a four year old cable of said type which, except for a little dust, is looking as good as new.

Were you to say that it occurs during average usage however, I agree that it would be an issue.
I think I solved that problem quite elegantly :) However I still have a small TODO regarding printing from cygwin:

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set fileencoding=utf-8

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and, did they really have to use the Windows logo on the system key of a Linux laptop?

A nice touch would have been to make it a penguin key. Or, even a spiderman key to match the font.

I was especially happy to see that the palm rests were not gunked up with the typical annoying explosion of multicolored stickers—with the exception of a white-on-black Intel Core i7 sticker (which actually looks quite nice!)—so there's nothing to visually distract you from working.

Another nice touch would have been to put the Intel Core i7 sticker beneath the XPS badge on the bottom of the Ultrabook with the service tag, serial number, and the neat little Ubuntu sticker.
And "PrtScr" instead of "SysRq". Fail.
From a notorious disinformation site http://debka.com/article/22914/The-Tsarnaev-brothers-were-do... a plausible explanation of the non-miranda situation. Perhaps someone more knowledgable can comment on how elite is Cambridge Rindge and Latin School http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Rindge_and_Latin_Scho...
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Don't forget these men lived smack bang between the campuses of MIT and Harvard. Must be tough to consider yourself a loser and see these students walking around like they own the world or will (I know because I work in Kendall Square). Although these men made their own choices and should be responsible for them I can't help but agree that there was probably several opportunities to turn these guys around at some point. You can't drive out hate with intolerance - only compassion and love can do that. Boston is a very tolerant city but also very cliquey - if you don't fit in or find a community it can be very lonely.
I did not try argue that brothers bear zero responsibility, au contraire. It was a complex mix of external and internal circumstances and influences that resulted in tragedy. Just like some people are more prone to alcoholism, others are prone to extreme violence when they find themselves cornered. The question is could we at least argue that both human agency and environmental influences can be considered equally important?

Also the mentality, "My life is good, I do not care about you, you are on your own, loser" is another problem I see. People barricade themselves in gated communities and pretend everything is peachy around them failing to see interconnectedness. Then when crap hits the fan everyone is like very surprised why it happened.
Jamornh wasn't referring to a $250 mouse. He's referring to this $2,500 gaming laptop at 90% off: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade

Selling those for $250 is obviously a massive loss on just the hardware alone.
And it turns out that marking many of the JSON functions stable was an oversight and was corrected in git a few days ago: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;...

So now it is indeed possible!
Learn about contract law, it's interesting.

In Germany, for example, displayed prices are merely an invitation to make an offer (”I want to buy this!”) which van then be accepted or rejected by the seller. Only if the seller accepts a contract of sale actually comes into existence. By the way, if the seller accepts but changes the conditions (by, say, changing the price) a contract of sale also doesn't exist. The buyer then has another chance to accept or reject this new offer.

It's pretty common sense, actually. Oh, and this doesn't mean that sellers can display wrong prices on purpose. That would be misleading advertising. But if it's a mistake it's not a problem.
His sig says Skype is nonfree. What does that even mean?
Stallman is a kook and lives in an alternate reality. Pay no attention to him.
Yes, this kind of behavior that you describe is the reason I personally dislike FSF and Richard Stallman (knowing and acknowledging that they've done more than I can in probably 1000 years, but it doesn't mean they're above criticism).

You might recall this recent thread: "GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899

It cites http://lwn.net/Articles/529522/, which is a living proof of what you're saying. Two main developers of GnuTLS, that had written 10,600 commits out of 11,000 wanted to respectfully part ways with FSF. This is Stallman's reaction:

> Nikos, when you volunteered to maintain GNUTLS, the GNU Project entrusted its development to you. Your contributions so far are appreciated. However, the project GNUTLS does not belong to you.

> If you want to stop doing this job, you can. If you want to develop a fork of GNUTLS under another name, you can, since it is free software.

> But you cannot take GNUTLS out of the GNU Project. You cannot designate a non-GNU program as a replacement for a GNU package. We will continue the development of GNUTLS.

This really ought to boosts the morale of GNU contributers to know that even if they had contributed more than 96% of the codebase, they're still not trusted, and are deemed completely replaceable.
The sources are publicly available, but there is absolutely no mention of a license for the CommaFeed code in the repository. I have filed an issue https://github.com/Athou/commafeed/issues/48
The common wisdom that "linux will never be viable on the desktop" is frustrating. How user friendly and problem-free does ubuntu have to get before people stop claiming this? All drivers working by default isn't good enough? To install software on windows you have to buy it or download shady .exe files, how is this better or more user-friendly than graphical software repository?
It should be noted that data.encode('hex') and data.decode('hex') would not work in Python 3.x:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/12917278/23643
Verlet is incredibly stable and allows you to update the position of a mass directly (velocity, force, momentum are all implicit), making it very easy to work with if not very accurate. You can't emulate rigid bodies very well (shape matching kinda works), collision response and stacking is a pain in the ass.
Yeah, a function taking two callbacks is what I had in mind. This works in dynamic typed languages too, although obviously not as well.
Instead of thinking of "selfish" as the thing you were scolded for as child (i.e., a bad thing), think of it as "self-interested". In and of itself, self-interest is neither "good" nor "bad".

If you have some time, watch this video on self-interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URTFDijUEY8
The Boston Marathon Bomber Manhunt
I can see the merit in both ironclad protection against self incrimination, and the public safety value of making a scene safe.

I think the proper balance would probably be to allow physical evidence produced under "implied duress" (being in confinement/control and asked without being notified of Miranda rights), but not statements. So, maybe 25% more restrictive than the current legal standard.

The true problem with Mirandizing someone is that anyone who isn't a fucking moron will realize "oh, I shouldn't say anything until I get an attorney". Physical evidence is assumed to not depend upon statements to discover, but it certainly will be discovered faster with a statement. This argument isn't actually 100% valid in some scenes and with some types of evidence.

I don't have as much of a problem with lack of notification of someone of his rights vs. not giving him rights when demanded, too -- interrogating someone without Mirandizing him, in a very limited fashion, is less objectionable than doing the same interrogation under direct threat or execution of death/physical attack, drugs, etc.
Sure. By all means.

Of course, as jlgreco pointed out, you're only showing your ignorance to the topic and hand by trying to deflect the real issue with insults at me.
It's shocking/hilarious/sad you need to resort to that, instead of actually addressing the issue at hand.
theres also a clear difference in the size of both companies. For Razer as small company this is brilliant PR, probably better than most of their marketing campaigns, so money well spent.
Apple ? They probably couldnt care less.

I am not saying Razer only does this because they see their benefit, but they probably also dont only do it because they are nice people.
>> At the end of the day, this guy - of his own will - decided to harm others by the multitudes <<

Perhaps a relevant post: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/life-without-free-will
I've started treating the README's to my open source projects almost like landing pages for products. So I now do a couple things I might do for a product page: lead with pain and testimonials.

I'll open with something that describes the pain someone might be going through to catch their interest with the project. And I'll also make sure to include a testimonial or two from folks using the project. Here are a couple examples:

https://github.com/n8/multi_fetch_fragments

https://github.com/n8/cohort_me

I don't have enough data to scientifically judge the results. But since I've started doing this I do know my most recent three open source projects have gotten a lot more traction than previous projects.
Waterboarding is torture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUkj9pjx3H0
http://news.yahoo.com/stories-2-brothers-suspected-bombing-1...

some detailed background reported in this article. He failed "Principles of Modern Chemistry, Intro American Politics, and Chemistry and the Environment". When you set unrealistic goals you set up yourself for a failure. Dzhokhar had a lot pf schooling done in Dagestan, so even though he attended good school in the US he was clearly behind and not a "medical school" material. Med schools are competitive, he was probably pre-med, how realistic was it for him to get in med school with F in Principles of Modern Chemistry?
"You could just start a group based around your ideas. Once you get enough people together the group becomes a political force."

Well after consulting with people behind some of tech behind OWS, I doubt something like this would be effective. After all, you paint a big red x on yourself for the FBI spooks to go after, while senators and bankers call you domestic terrorists while the police and private security beat you in the streets for not staying in the "Free Speech Zones". I think letting the country go down the path most of its citizens are willing to let if come to will suffice.

Yes, no doubt this person will be going to prison.
But you suggest that they dont know who was in the video, and even the FBI has stated that they were well aware of who they were before the incident had even taken place. People have been saying matter-of-factly that they planted the bombs… gee wiz, I wonder where they got that idea since they haven't been convicted of anything yet.

In the meantime I'll keep pushing code and my matsci knowledge to Defense Distributed, since we all know real political power comes from the barrel of a gun (or a drone…).
Bullshit.

One skill that is NOT correlated with IQ is the ability to reflect honestly on your own motivations. (If anything, the smarter people are, the better they get at rationalising.) So here's a mirror:

- you have a problem with authority

- you have a high IQ

- you have a deep-seated need to feel that you're better than other people.
Also note that the probabilities in each column and each row sum to 1, indicating that every possible combination of input and output has been accounted for.

Perhaps a quantum probabilistic NOT gate requires the columns to add up to 1, but it's certainly not a general requirement of any physical device that imperfectly implements a NOT gate.

Consider the following probability matrix:

0 1
0 0.1 0.9
1 0.8 0.2

For any input (say, 0, in the top row), the output will be interpreted as either a 0 or 1, so the row sum must be 1.

However, there's nothing forcing the probability of 0 as an output in one row to depend on its probability in another row. One could implement the gate above in software, with no problems, and a hardware equivalent could certainly be produced.

[Edit-- fixed row probabilities in second row.]
So the software would be better if it was 1.0?
OK Glass, RIP Privacy: The Democratization Of Surveillance
I remember Apple recalling all of them and apologising.

When people moaned at Dell on their community voting page (Dell IdeaStorm) Dell basically said "we aren't changing, this is a business decision."

And it is. Dell releasing several new incompatible PSUs every year and over-charging for them is very much a "business decision" therefore I choose to take my business elsewhere.

Point of fact: There are several companies I refuse to do business with because I don't like how they operate. Dell is one of them.
Well, I did. A few years ago, my mom was having a bunch of trouble with xp on her netbook, especially connecting to my house wifi. Did a dual boot install of Ubuntu 10.04 on it, and once I installed the flash/mp3 packages, had absolutely no issues with it. She's been using it since, updating when it tells her to, with no major issues. Now granted, this was a travel machine, so it was mostly limited to internety stuff, and the odd game of soduku, but its been a perfectly reasonable choice for her for a few years now.
Kenny Kellogg: Six Links on Saturday
I ordered a Dell desktop online in 1999 to be shipped to my apartment. I filled out everything including an evening phone #, but not a daytime #. A week later no shipment so I call Dell and they say they need a daytime #, so I give them my company #. Another week goes by and no desktop. At this point I am needing to use the desktop. I call Dell and they say the company I worked for (the daytime # they demanded) was a little behind on payments so they decided to take my money in recompense and not ship me a computer. I had to go to the CTO of my company and have my company repay me. Incidentally, the Dell's we used as servers with Red Hat would freeze up all the time.

So yes, I have avoided Dell since then. I have been relatively happy with their competitors, so why go back? My only personal experience with them was a bad one. Other sysadmins I have worked with would go to the trouble of migrating from a Dell server environment to an HP one, when new machines were needed, because they felt HP servers were superior to Dell, and it certainly seemed that way. I don't know what their desktops are like as I was never shipped one. There is a reason their stock has sunk and they are going private. Yes the market has shifted, but they did not shift with it - Apple and other companies have.

I have a System76 Ubuntu laptop. As I have a tablet and desktop, I don't need to use it much. The one problem I have had is battery life. I have been too busy to really look into it, I don't know if that's normal or if I can tune something.
I wonder if there are any languages or language implementations that he mentioned in this post that weren't ready for real-world use in late 2007 but are ready now. D has certainly matured since then.

How about some more recent languages, like Scala, Clojure, Go, and Rust?
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10.04 works pretty seamlessly on my eee901.
Notice: Disqus does not require email verification.
Minutes ago I received a "confirm your email address" notification from Disqus. I thought this was strange, since I have never signed up for Disqus. I assumed someone with a similar name had made a mistake.

Another few minutes later, I received a notification of a reply to "one of my comments" and I was horrified.

Someone had registered an account under my name with my email address and had been posting incredibly disgusting comments regarding the recent attack in Boston. I have since 'recovered' my account and deleted this comments.

I am shocked that Disqus allows users to post comments without email verification, and shocked that someone has chosen to target me like this. I can't think why anyone would.
I have been using DeathAdders since 2009 (2, one broke after 3 years) and think they are amazing, hands down. Never bothered to install their software, as they work perfect for me without.
Recent versions of Ubuntu, Fedora and Mint have worked completely out-of-the-box on my Lenovo Carbon X1 and an old HP DV7. The only trouble I have had is with a Samsung QX410 because it has both discrete NVIDIA and integrated graphics with Optimus for switching.
And none of them could really continue what Jobs had started. They didn't even have to innovate. And did Sculley come up with Newton? No, others inside Apple did. Yet he couldn't even sell that (and marketing was his thing!). It took the Palm Pilot to realize Apple's ambitions. Just as it took Steve Jobs to realize the ambitions of Xerox PARC.
Why? To me it suggests this is an very early release of a software package using semantic versioning. Nothing suspicious about a developer who understands semantic versioning and is releasing early and often.

http://semver.org/
Out of curiosity, have you had any trouble with backlight bleed?

This is the screen on the first XPS 13 I received: https://twitpic.com/cjbzvr

Since then, it's been replaced twice, each subsequent system having similar issues in different areas of the screen. I'm working with someone at Dell corporate now to provide details for their engineering team...I have to imagine all three systems were from the same manufacturing run.
Well, I dunno what the best details would be... Whatever would make it easier for other teams to get funding instead of this organization, and thus is a proper incentive to behave.

Maybe bring up valid issues in email and once they go nowhere, make the emails public. You could potentially redact names, which would make it harder for them to attack you later...

Considering the goal is just to shape them up, perhaps you could fake or anonymously threaten a leak. Or for instance spread a rumor that you're being audited for this stuff. And if you see anyone shred anything, collect the pieces.

Or find a donor and don't "leak" anything specifically but get them calling for an audit.

With more specifics and an idea of how bad things are, we might be able to find something that would work.

I realize leaking is dangerous and burdensome for those who have to do it.
Most videogames are written by young guys with lots of programming experience, but little marketing experience. I'd guess they often try to use the code in these sorts of things to market to what they think is their intended audience. And I bet to some degree it works:

"Heh - it's called Hardon Collider - I should show my friends how funny this is!"

I'd wager that they think the group of people who will find this funny and share it is larger than the group of people who will find this obnoxious and avoid it. "And who cares about those uptight assholes, anyway?" In the end it becomes a very sad, tight feedback loop for these kinds of weird sexism.