skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you were doing something wrong like not understanding physics involving the coefficient of friction, acceleration formulas, and the inability to see through solid objects to know that a child is about to step out on the road in front of your car at a distance where you could have stopped had you not been speeding.
Columbus made four voyages. This is a one way trip.

For most part, they were also unaware if their future was going to be better or worse, so there in offered great reward.

From my perspective, yes studying the Mars environment would be interesting but not worth leaving everything behind. If however there were life forms on Mars or something "better" than what's available on Earth, then it might be an interesting prospect.
Send people when there's a coherent plan for them to do something useful.

Not before.

(1) Oliver Morton: "The fact that there are plenty of people who might volunteer ... does not mean that it would be right to indulge them.

If they live, they do so because of unparalleled spending. A world where a select few gets hundreds of millions, at the very least, invested annually merely to keep them alive while equally deserving people die in large numbers for want of far less is not a very attractive place.

Human Mars exploration is indeed a fine goal, and it is quite possible that fairly early on there will be some who elect to stay. But the only real argument for doing it sooner rather than later is the selfish one of wanting to see/participate in it personally.

There is something poetic about the notion of death on Mars, or of choosing to die there - Clarke's Transit of Earth caught that nicely. But Liebestod is not a good basis for public policy."

http://mainlymartian.blogs.com/semijournal/2009/09/oneway-to...

(2) Funding large risky space missions through advertising is not credible. Cash needs peak ~3 years before Mars arrival. The team building the British Mars lander tried hard to raise money from advertising - with help from M&C Saatchi - but "failed to raise any external funding guarantees." Hunting for sponsors "seriously hindered the orderly build-up of the project engineering team," contributing to the 2003 loss of the spacecraft over Isidis Planitia.

Crash investigation: http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/ukspaceagency/docs/space-scienc...
I think you're being a little harsh on him--regardless of what language this game was written in it looks great. This is obviously a labor of love and not something made to get press attention. If someone wanted to get a story written about them in PC World I would venture there are much easier ways to do it than spend a year slaving away at writing a modern game in basic.
> Sort of a "Do what you can to get any information out of the suspect as I turn around and plug my ears." ?

I would imagine so. There has to be a non-verbal or symbolic channel of communicating that then provides official deniability.

As an example take discrimination and at-will employment. Let's say the owners want to fire a gay guy. They can't fire him officially because of various discriminatory laws so they maybe invent a non-verbal or a code word 'restructuring' so they lay him off due to restructuring.

In general part of operating in large bureaucratic institution is to learn:

* what rules can be broken (break them if you like but don't force the management to make an official statement on it and don't ask permission on paper)

* what rules should be broken ("you need to torture this guy and it is illegal so we'll just use a euphemism -- 'interrogation' you know what I mean, I know you know what I mean, but we can never write that down in an email")

* what rules cannot be broken, official and un-official (some things are never tolerated what these are have to be discovered carefully as these might not all be written down, say who can disagree with the boss during a requirement meeting... it is not written down but if you are part of the wrong group, you won't fare well)
http://instagram.com/p/HWBYYmNDYD/

386DX 40 MHz
The problem is that if those "leads" are made public and point at specific people, then some people will let their outrage over what happened blot out all doubt that the "leads" are not conclusive evidence and take what they believe to be justice into their own hands.
We applied April 10th. Haven't heard anything either
Assuming there are very many civilizations in our universe, the odds that we're the first are tremendously lower than the odds that we're not. I think that's the point.
Because you are penalized for not being a fortune teller. They are archaic because it doesn't work well in a modern market. Oh, it worked, alright. Right up until the housing market stopped going up. Then when it went down all that capital was tied up in personal debt. The bank got the house and their pound of flesh, for perpetuity. And I mean that in some people will never be able to pay off that loan and see suicide as a viable option.
Simulation of landmine clearing with Massoud Hassani's Mine Kafon
You can sign up for a free .epub or .mobi version of this report to be available at the end of April.

http://detaineetaskforce.org/report/ebook/
Over the years, I've noticed that many left-handed people in my life (including my wife, family members, friends, co-workers, etc) have difficulty telling left from right. In fact, I recently had a conversation about this with two left-handed colleagues, and they both acknowledged the issue.

Is there really something to this? Is it environmental (growing up in a right-handed world)? Anyone have additional insight?
However, sdl, SDL_image and glew must be installed with header files.
Thanks for PixelShox & QC :) I used PixelShox when it came out, and I've used QC for so much prototyping in my last startup (they do interactive video stuff). It saved me tons of time. Also, love Everpix, great product; I only miss a way to create albums with selected images from different sources to share with friends. That'd be big.
Thanks, not a bad idea. I'll look into it.
They are publicly "accusing" (or putting somebody in a very specific corner) two guys. They do not have any, any idea, what has really happened.

They are nothing more than unethical algorithmic drones, that dig up stuff. So far, no problem. But when showing their findings in public, they have a responsibility in thinking through the possible consequences, that might arise for these two guys if the (with a by the way very high probability) are innocent.

So raising the internet-pillories with possible media outlets taking these images and (not fact checking) showing them in different channels, might just destroy lives.

So yeah, sit in your chair and believe this unethical bs about them not convicting anybody. Right, the internet is just a tool.

As wise Uncle Ben once said:
"With great power comes great responsibility."

That is, what seems to be missing here.

ps.: Imagine a different scenario:

They dig up these images, they send it to the law enforcement agencies. They find these guys to be potential suspects. They get a fair trial. After all is said and done . These guys come out to show what they did. Something in the line of finding a security flaw at your favorite digital place.
The maximum safe speed really depends on the road, current traffic, weather, and the capabilities of the car. I could imagine some locations permitting safe travel at 120+. Maybe the revenue currently earned from speeding tickets can be gained by offering a "license to speed" instead, with increased driver training, insurance, and vehicle inspection requirements.
Military has multi-GIGApixel sensors on drones. They can watch huge portions of a city at one.

It would only take several drones to watch the entire city from altitude.

https://www.google.com/search?q=argus-is

The ARGUS-IS can stream up to a million terabytes of data and record 5,000 hours of HD footage per day. It can do this by the 1.8 gigapixel camera and 368 different sensors all housed in the ARGUS-IS.
Average speed cameras are common in the UK. The flow of traffic adjusts so that the body of traffic is at the limit - we don't keep our eyes on the speedo, as enforcement only kicks in at limit+x mph, and a short duration deviation from speed isn't a problem. Most people have cruise control, and they won't need to check the speedo once set.

I've no empirical evidence, but driving on main roads with average speed cameras feels safer.
Google GLASS Infographic – forbidden APPs
It actually started as a private-only thing, and I only added the social sharing & feed features later. My own use case was collecting quotes, and that's what I build it for. I then realized that I might need some social glue to attract users.
For people questioning "Why" this investigation was conducted, here's a statement from the task force

The events examined in this report are unprecedented in U.S. history. In the course of the
nation’s many previous conflicts, there is little doubt that some U.S. personnel committed brutal
acts against captives, as have armies and governments throughout history.
But there is no evidence there had ever before been the kind of considered and detailed
discussions that occurred after September 11, directly involving a president and his top
advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some
detainees in our custody.
For the more forensically minded, this Reuters story [1] has a surprising amount of medium-res but closeup photos of bomb component fragments, for example enough to identify the kind of battery employed [2].

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/slideshow/idUSBRE93F06T201304...

2. http://www.amazon.com/Tenergy-3000mAh-Battery-Tamiya-Connect...
Yea but you can't even begin to imagine how big the excel spreadsheet was.
Interestingly enough, the phenomenon 4chan/reddit/Something Awful and other free-spirited trollish communities embarking on activities like this has precedence in China: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?pa...
It would take one drone and maybe five years at the rate the tech is improving.

ARGUS is taking care of the 'problem.'

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-free-speech-...
That's actually pretty cool; I remember the joy when my own malloc/free ran without crashing real-world programs; doing the same witha GC would be both satisfying and a good way to find bugs.
It's hilarious to see anything from /pol/ show up on Hacker News.
You mean; It was. It's marketing. Pure and simple.
care to explain what would you call it?
Randy Wray's view: http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2013/04/17/no-rogoff-and-...

concluding paragraph makes so much sense:

"More than five decades ago, Abba Lerner gave the answer to this question. If there are involuntarily unemployed (we would add underemployed) people it means the deficit is too low. The government should either cut taxes or increase spending. It is certainly debatable which one is a better policy, but that’s beyond the scope of this paper. When is the deficit too large? When it’s over 3%, 7%, 10%? Again, there is no magic number and anyone who comes up with a universal number simply misunderstands the modern monetary regime and macroeconomics. In opposition to magic, Lerner proposed “functional finance”—the notion that the federal government’s budgetary outcome is of no consequence by itself, but rather, what is important is the economic effects of government spending and taxing. When total spending in the economy, including government spending, is more than what the economy is able to produce when employed at full capacity, the government should either lower its spending or raise taxes. A failure to do so will lead to inflation. So inflation is the true limit to government spending not lack of financing. Government debt is merely the result of government deficit and hence the same applies to debt as well."
Actually, if there were no gloves, there would be very little punching to the head, because that would often lead to broken fingers rather than knockouts.

Gloves were introduced because the few punches to the head nearly always caused cuts, making bare-knuckle boxing a very bloody sport.

Gloves made boxing palatable to the glamour crowd, at the cost of the fighters' health (and sometimes life).
Funny. I never thought about it and just assumed it was a hidden wink to Adam and Eve eating an apple from the tree of knowledge.
Just asking out of curiosity: Do the US not have some right of being in photo, being singled out and shown without consent?

Wouldn't it be a crime or at least be against basic human rights?

Trying to understand, as I'm not american and wish to come to grips with the reasoning behind showing these images in public and not mailing them to law-enforcement.

edit: Killing repeating use of "just asking" ;-)
Turtles, all the way down.
I'm wondering if law enforcement is using something like Microsoft Photosynth[0] to process all the images. Probably would make their job a lot easier.

[0] Photosynth example - requires Silverlight: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=d7d78324-ad5e-41ea-94dd-...
I think the author hasn't grasped what Fowler was talking about (and equating OO with JavaBeans is a bit unfortunate). His Dog example seems to support his point because it doesn't have any behaviour; he hasn't told us anything a Dog does, which means there's really no need for his Dog to be an object. (I was going to say it should be a struct, but actually given the use cases so far it should probably be a tagged String) Which is fine, sometimes it's the appropriate approach. In scala there's a nice distinction between "class" and "case class"; I understand some people use C#'s struct/class distinction the same way.

So yes, don't give your domain objects responsibility for serializing themselves to json. But that doesn't mean it's bad for objects to take responsibility for things that are actually part of their domain.
The funny thing is, that there are at least six people with black nylon backpacks in the picture. So obviously an entire swarm of terrorists is depicted...
It's income, just like any other income, and is subject to income tax in the US. If you're paid more than $20,000 and had more than 200 transactions, you'll get a 1099-K, but even if you don't, you still have to report it as income on your 1040s.

Also, see these entries in Stripe's FAQ - you're not required to be a business to use stripe: https://support.stripe.com/questions/sole-proprietor-without... https://support.stripe.com/questions/do-crowdfunding-sites-n...

AIUI, incorporation is mostly about limiting liability, and making it easier to sell off the business (or shares thereof) later. There are probably other advantages as well, but making it legal to accept payments at all isn't one of them.
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My second machine was a 386 with a turbo button.

I think this would be better as a poll rather than a story, there's not a lot to say.
No, Qualcomm's profit was $6.1 billion in 2012. With $19 billion in sales. It was $4.26 billion in profit for 2011 with nearly $15 billion in sales.

So the error is on your side.

Their trailing four quarters was closer to the $6.6 billion profit range (note that I did not say in the 4th quarter, I said the trailing four quarters).

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=QCOM+Income+Statement&an...

Here's Qualcomm's press release on fiscal 2012 confirming my numbers:

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/QCOM/992946673x618427...

$6.11 billion in net income, with $19.12 billion in sales.
Baseball is a team sport, and your odds of getting a blow to the head are a lot lower. They also seem to take such contact a lot more seriously.
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Thanks! You can share photos across sets on the website (use Share button at top level of view), but not on iOS (yet).
You mean bribe?
Also, even if the kid (or someone else) is completely at fault, they shouldn't have to die for their mistakes.
This is nice, but what we really need is something that generates non-ugly "buy" form templates that work with Paypal, Amazon, Google Wallet, and Stripe for direct CC purchases.
Unfortunately there's nowhere near enough resolution to identify anything beyond the battery and wire labels. Do those bozos think they're saving useful amounts of bandwidth by using postage-stamp size images in 2013?

Part of photo 16/28 looks somewhat like a ferrite loopstick from the AM radio portion of a portable radio, but again it's hard to be sure. The distinction is important because if that's what it is, then this PC board is probably from a benign device that just happened to be carried by someone nearby.
https://spacebox.io/
You forget: London is already tooled up for Case Nightmare Green.
So how does a number on a sign at the side of the road have anything to do with any of those things?
Was about to post that! Fictional, but incredibly intriguing. Keeps you thinking for weeks :)
I recently heard "Category theory tells you which parts are easy" from a mathematician working with Haskell Monads. Repeatedly, this turns out to be true (confirmation bias?).

He generalized a algorithm by using an abstract data type (a Monad of course) instead of a specific number type. Now the algorithm can be applied e.g. to probability distributions as well. The category theory tells you about bind and lift. However, the hard part is generalizing the algorithm, because you have fewer assumptions now.

For another example, greatest common divisor is a simple algorithm for numbers. Try generalizing it so you could also use polynomials instead of integers.
Sounds like a framework for quantum computing
Now apply that in reverse, that is, a militant regime trying to identify legal but politically inconvenient protesters. Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3h-rae3uo
I initially read it as a joking reference to Star Wars: KOTOR's assassin droid's constant references to the other characters as meatbags.
I think there is a big difference between the news saying "THIS IS THE GUY! THIS IS THE MONSTER!" and people on a forum speculating that "this may be worth looking into further".

The people who turn it into a witch hunt are likely not the people actually using their heads enough to know what to be looking for in the images.
What was the since in ever turning it off?
If you're interested in actual implementations, the website of the Probabilistic Programming Workshop offers an overview of actively developed languages:

http://probabilistic-programming.org/
So all I need to do to be a great journalist is to win a Pulitzer?
> Only one of them knew what any of the SOLID principles were as I named them off.

Here's to hoping I don't ever end up where you are. Let's just let programmers do programming instead of brushing up on their MBA/"Six Sigma" style time wasting.
I clicked on the link, and this made me chuckle:
http://imgur.com/c2NKgO1
I always considered CPS and SSA to be duals.
(Just like FST and Lambda-calculus are duals)
H-1B: The indentured servitude visa that big boring companies love
What super power does law enforcement possess that us lesser humans don't?
Google Bans Devs From Serving Ads on Google Glass
Apologies, I misunderstood you. When you said $6.1billion you didn't specify what period that was for, and due to the proximity to their Q4 revenue ($6.02 billion) I mistakenly jumped in and assumed you were talking about their last quarter and had misread the numbers, when in actual fact you were correct we were just talking about different things. Sorry!

Regardless, whether you look at the year or the quarter, the rest of my points weren't related to my thinking you had made a mistake with your numbers.
And your point is...? Are you somehow attempting to justify the way Excel behaves by talking about Web browsers?
similar here: throw, kick, bat right handed. Eat, write, tennis racquet left handed. And I have to think about what side my left hand is on before I give left-right directions to others.
No. OP is responding to the question "I don't see how that was prevented?" with the answer "It wasn't [prevented]."
The quote is a somewhat poor rephrasing of a more solid argument from this paper:

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf

Anyway, your objection here isn't actually relevant as far as I can tell. It's a probabilistic argument about the number of real minds vs. the number of simulated minds, and the bulk of the "proof" is in demonstrating that, under certain assumptions, the number of simulated minds would be so high in comparison to the number of real minds that you'd almost be forced to conclude that you are simulated.

It really doesn't have anything to do with "universes inside universes."
I don't think you really understood the Go example. In C if I have:

struct SuperClass {
int foo;
};
struct SubClass {
struct SuperClass super;
};

Then to set the foo item I'd have to do:
struct SubClass bar;
bar.super.foo = 5;

Whereas in Go I could say:
type SuperClass struct {
foo int
}
type SubClass struct {
SuperClass
}
bar := SubClass{}
bar.foo = 5

So, small difference, but I think valid.
They probably want other media outlets to pay for the high-resolution photos. They're not postage-stamp sized, nor are the people bozos for not making your life maximally convenient. You could try searching for larger-resolution versions with Tineye or so, though chances are the FBI are way ahead of everyone on this since they employ specialists in this sort of thing.

As for the ferrite loopstick, it occurs to me that if the battery pack is from an RC device (which is what it's marketed as), the bomb maker have used the RC interface as a trigger. But that's just a guess.
If you want the fastest possible speed, what you need is a technique called dynamic recompilation. Essentially, you compile the 6502 opcodes (or whatever) to native x86_64 code, and execute that. It's considered the gold standard of emulation. Nowadays, it's usually done by using LLVM to generate bytecode, and jumping to that.

By the way, I did enjoy reading your link about computed gotos. It sounds like what it comes down to is that the C switch statement does bounds checking, and the computed goto can avoid that. At the end of the day, though, no matter how many hacks you pile on, using an interpreter will have an overhead above dynorec.

N.B. Tail call optimization has its costs as well as benefits. Rust recently announced that it won't be supporting it. I don't know if the Go guys have made any statement about this, but I would imagine they might not consider it, for the same reasons. More here: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-April/00355...
Regarding CA, the vehicle code says something to the effect that the ticket a). must be given by an officer b). must no have financial incentive attached. Just ask the court that dismissed my red light camera ticket for "lack of prosecution". On that note: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/feb/01/san-diego-red-lig....
Quite impressive and disturbing. I am glad to see the report. What I'd really like to see, though, are some indictments.
Are you sure? Is the universe described by an equation s=t*v, v=10 untrue unless we compute it? Does moving electrons on a CPU die suddenly give it meaning? Do scraps of graphite left on paper by a pencil? The simplest turing complete cellular automaton can be computed using ordinary rocks.

Are there no infinitely many natural numbers unless we observe them? And then finally is actually computing a universe described by a set and a step function the only way to make it real? Is it not "real" by simply being possible?

As for discreteness of time, in quantum mechanics changes in state are modeled by square matrices over complex numbers. GL(n, C) is complete - for every matrix M you also have M^1/2, representing half the state chance. It follows that our time, at conceptual level, is at least as "dense" as rational numbers.
I think OP is (mis)quoting The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.