skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You seem unreasonably grumpy"

Probably came into work via the Tube :-)
> The probability that the problem was cleared up coincidentally rather than as the result of one passenger turning off their phone is very low.

If I understand your first sentence correctly, you're saying that there is a high probability that the resolution of the problem was non-coincidental, i.e. turning off the phone solved the problem. This doesn't really gel with your second paragraph, though. Can you clarify?
I have to admit to a bit of schadenfreude whenever I see these "Copyright-Troll-Bites-Dog" stories; but I think as it keeps happening again and again I can't help but think that they just show a glimpse into human psychology en masse. A person may stop pirating content, but the nature of the internet guarantees that people will continue to do so.

Back when I was a hardcore pirate, (read: poorer than I am now, which is pretty fucking broke) I would download Gigs and Gigs of movies and music that I would almost never watch/listen to. I just found it soothing knowing that I had Terribytes of interesting data; all categorized, indexed and organized, and that could never be taken away from me if Content Producer A got into a corporate pissing match with Content Distributor X.
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Right, "go install" is for open source projects.
You can safely make a zip of the installation folder.
I'm saying they should be applauded for not adhering to their own moral code by those who disagree with said code.
But its a global organization. Why should we only look at the US Branch, especially considering the ability for multinational companies to shift money around for outside appearances?
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Right. My larger point though is that there are lots and lots and lots of jobs that can be eliminated without strong AI. We may succeed in destroying the demand side of the economy long before we solve the problem of making the supply side pointless.
Part of the problem is that the bar for getting a terminal degree is set lower than it should be. Maybe we should be reforming the committee selection process, before taking on the publishing industry.
E-Skills UK and employers team up to launch cyber security apprenticeship
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Because those devices help distract us from how awful the entire experience of flying is.
That's assuming he's drawing this live. Who's to say he hasn't been planning this from Day One and has been drawing the frames all along.

I know, it's a stretch but ... what if?
IRS agents are given tremendous power. When they abuse it, they should face harsher penalties than those not so empowered.

Last night I heard on NPR the story of a New Zealand expatriate that did not file US taxes for several years as is required by every US citizen no matter where they live or how long they've lived outside the US. He voluntarily notified the IRS of his oversight and paid the $20,000 in back taxes. The IRS then told him his penalty exceeded $140,000.
I'm sure it uses email data. A friend emailed me flight information and it showed up on my tablet. They didn't use any of my computers to search on that flight (never mind that I have search history disabled).
LOL... that's all you had to reply? Typical of FP advocates..
> How is this different tho from USD -> Swiss Franc -> USD?

It isn't, which is why there are big stacks of anti-money-laundering regulations that governments impose on banking and forex.
Another way of looking at it when governments create money there taxing everyone for using there currency. If you have 1kg of gold there it's no cost to you it's only when you have cash or are owed cash that it's a problem.
No black snot for me (ever!) despite doing KX/Finsbury Park to Vauxhall (with a further train at each end) and back five days a week for many years.

My commute (when not cycling) is now just a single commute from Zone 2 to Zone 1. Never a seat on the way in but it's just 18 minutes.
You are right, I changed it now to reflect a bit more what is in the article.

[edit] seems like I can't change it anymore. I tried changing it to "Airline industry still divided over usage of personal electronics and their supposed interference"
No problem! Rust's documentation is pretty scattershot at this point in its life.
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I was discussing with a colleague whether tor is still trustworthy these days: running exit nodes without ending up in jail or thrown out by your ISP becomes more and more difficult (if it's not impossible already). Also tor still gets a lot if bad press as being nothing but a medium for child porn consumers to hide their tracks.

As such I wonder whether there are exit nodes (or even just plain nodes) left that are not being run by governments as honeypots?

How can you be sure that the data you are submitting is not intercepted? How can I be sure that all my traffic is not running through one government network (because all tor nodes still left are compromised)? How can I be sure that I'm actually submitting my information to the New Yorker in this case as opposed to a government server posing as them?

The announcement page linked is not being served over SSL and the onion URL given isn't using ssl either (as if any ca would sign a cert for that domain, but if the linked page was served over SSL they could publish a fingerprint there)

If I had important information to leak, I would probably still have an otherwise uninvolved colleague drop by in person to dump the data for that one (and only one) time. If I had a friend willing to take the risk.

Or if there was an EV signed page of the New Yorker listing an SSL fingerprint of a certificate that's used by that tor server, then maybe I could live with the fact that tor is likely compromised.

Then again, maybe I'm just a paranoid coward. I'm so glad I don't have access to information anybody would be interested in.
I was referring to the actual heist at the bottom of the article.
Not well enough in my experience. Nothing will make those half-human sized seats bearable.

And I would reiterate, this is during the brief period of takeoff and landing.
Web Startup: Living in Florida, incorporating in Delaware/Florida?
I am running single owned web startup right now. Its not live yet so that is why I am posting this question. I am currently living in Florida for past 3 years and within next couple of months I will take my idea LIVE.

That being said, I would like to know that which state is better to incorporate (LLC/C-Corp)? Delaware/Nevada/California? Can I incorporate into other state even I am not residing there? I don't know anyone in Delaware, but I know some of my friend in California & Nevada.

Also, I will be asking for funds through Angel Investors/VCs, so C-Corp would be a good option to go for. But now I am confused with the state.

Note: I was reading somewhere that if I am residing in Florida and form my company in some other state, I still have to register in Florida as a Foreign Business Entity (something like this, can't think of the proper term here.)
Simply 100% not true. They freely admitted to committing crimes, and there is overwhelming evidence they routinely broke the law and helped clients do the same. The 'fine' was a joke.
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There is a 3rd party that keeps track of how much money banks have. Editing that third party let's you steal from everyone until that point your just stealing from a specific bank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
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Essentially, yes. The government printing more currency is roughly equivalent to levying a tax on all holders of that currency, in proportion to the amount held.
"Likewise, our government needs to quit pretending it actually needs money and cut spending. The TSA and middle-east war machines are the first places I'd start with."

Absolutely, but those things are a drop in the bucket relatively speaking and aren't systemic budget problems. By far the biggest culprits are Medicare/Medicaid and the Bush tax cuts, but neither party has the collective will to do anything about them. It's not totally their fault, either- it's the nature of the political system and the level of voter awareness. Anyone who started seriously gunning for any of those things would get voted out at the earliest opportunity, or at least that's their perception. It's a profoundly messed up situation.
I use deterministic results as my #1 debugging tool.

I do this by building queue-based concurrent systems with a resulting nondeterministic order of execution but I then insure that the results themselves are deterministic.

Consider it to be a single queue with multiple vending machines to process requests. No one knows which vending machine will dispense their soda, but they will always get the soda they desire.

No need for special tools there. The overhead of insuring a deterministic result I'd estimate is <2% (the use of 32-bit float to 64-bit int type conversions (fixed point) and 64-bit versus 32-bit atomic operations on GPUs for accumulation). The biggest problems I run into are end users who'd happily trade that predictable output for that <2% perf gain and competitors who are happy to oblige them.

And the problem there is that I don't know how you diagnose race conditions or the quality of the underlying algorithm without a deterministic output from a deterministic input.

Recently, someone told me they address this problem by running single-threaded to check for race conditions. Sigh... But I guess that lets them evaluate the model.
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>>Haskell is pretty much the counter example.

I said "very often" for this reason, there is always an exception to the rule. I do love Haskell too.

>>This is why I am far more exited by Rust than by Go, it promises to deliver performance and safety in an imperative language.

To be clear we were talking about concurrency safety, not type and memory safety; Go is type and memory safe. If an organization using Go chose to tell programmers they could not send pointers between goroutines or share global state, Go would be just as communication safe as Rust. Just in Go, this communication safety is optional.
I thought this was going to be about the hidden stations, defunct tunnels and some of the ghost stories surrounding the London Underground (not that I'm in any way trying to undermine the point of that video either).

The London Underground fascinates me. The number of older rail networks (there was once a stretch of tunnels that were little wider than a crouched person and used either for mail or money - i forget which). The tunnels used during WWII as Churchill's bunker. The closed stations that feel like eerie to walk around. The hidden tunnel that were dug at Tottenham Court Road purely as a way to displace the other dirt due to the logistics of the location of the station. The experiments with spiral escalators...and so on.

It's a great marvel to think what the Victorians gave us Londoners more than 100 years ago. They saw out the old century with a world pioneering transport network. Then 100 years on, a technologically superior country decides to celebrate it's century with a big, ugly dome. :(
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From NYC, I give you the saddest man in the world: http://on.fb.me/19tlY0h
I imagine if he lived abroad and still managed to owe $20k by his reckoning, his income and/or assets are non-trivial, and the IRS may have some cause to think he owes more (that's not to say they are correct).

Unfortunately the US tax system is a very adversarial one.
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I would be interested in if anyone ever did a categorization of torrenters. I have assumed for a while that serial downloading makes up a decent chunk of pirating, but how much would be very important. Basically if you have someone who downloads a game a day, they might need to be treated differently from a more "casual" torrenter.

Of course my thoughts are pure conjecture, finding if that is true or not would add an interesting bit to discussions about this.
1999 - Visited London - Black snot
2001 - Lived in London - Normal snot
2002 - Moved out, but visited - Black snot
2003 to 2006 - Visited - Black snot
2006 - Moved back to London - Normal snot since and use tube every day.

I visited Berlin two weeks ago and got black snot after 1 day of using their metro system.

The cause? To quote Nelson Muntz - "That's like asking the square root of a million. No one will ever know."
Switch it up to a fist bump - often makes people laugh, specially if it's an uptight business situation + it's more hygenic....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_rail
HN has recently had some discussion about number plate recognition cameras.

I wonder if people not in England are aware that London is full of these things, all linked to the DVLA (car licensing people) who mail you bills if you don't pay the toll.
Sounds like a fun opportunity! And yeah, that's fair - I doubt anybody has baremetal via OpenStack in production yet. Looks like it was added in the Grizzly release. I'll have to check this out.
I don't see why this is such a big deal. Under the new healthcare laws, the IRS is going to be managing a vast majority of American healthcare records anyway. I think these agents were just being proactive!

Remember it's "theft" until you get someone to pass a law requiring people to voluntarily give you what you want.
I guess that would make sense, since USB peripherals are likely less performance sensitive in terms of latency and are also the place where you are going to get the widest variety of devices.
Please support something other than Paypal as soon as possible. Stripe or Balanced are great alternatives. Balanced is actually designed specifically for marketplaces.

I know I'm just one voice of thousands but I personally would not purchase from you due to the Paypal requirement.
To be honest, this doesn't seem like a great deal, unless you're the sort who wants that piece of paper validating your existence. Classes for an MS (at least in my experience at a top-10 US university) are not particularly more valuable than classes in undergrad.

Where you really learn a lot is from your peers, which you wouldn't be able to do in an online course. Debates at lunch, in reading groups, and at the bar all made me a much better CS geek and programmer than any course I took. In fact, I'd go so far as to say I didn't learn much at all in the classes.

This is nothing against the classes, the profs did a good job and prepared well (for the most part), it's just that the sheer volume of knowledge inflicted on my by my peers couldn't have been in a lecture 3-5 hours a week + some homeworks.
Google is making a big announcement.
I remember traveling back in the day, when airline food was actually good. Curried prawns on Thai Airways FTW.
>>If the quality of instruction and coursework is alleged to be equivalent, why not put the full standing of the University's name behind it?

The quality of the lecture instruction and coursework is alleged to be equivalent, but maybe they are now trying to differentiate on other dimensions such as physical access to on-campus facilities, easier/more direct access to professors or more implied individual attention.

>>To me, adding the caveat of "online" makes it seem like the school is admitting in advance that the degree isn't equivalent to "not-online" MSc degrees.

That's exactly what they're stating in no uncertain terms -- the two degrees are not equal. The preference for students and smaller universities is to go with an undifferentiated designation, but GT is drawing a line in the sand with this specific online offering. Note that GT offers other distance-learning masters degrees without differentiation, but at much higher cost.

The reduced cost is their justification for the O- prefix.

>> I wonder how my university was able to change its MSc offering (not Computer Science, though) to entirely-online without adding that word since both GATech and my college are covered by the same body.

This is why I suggested that the O- prefix was a deliberate choice that other major universities will push to protect the high fees of on-campus degrees.
Is signing up through LinkedIn the only option? For a brand new, unheard of web site, I'd really rather just create a new account that is not directly tied to my professional networking account. If I like what I experience with the site, then I might want to tie in external accounts later. If it's the only option, I am not joining.

This registration strategy seems at odds with the "anonymity" the site markets.

On a positive note, I do believe that community rating of content is a useful mechanism, and connecting yourself and your content to certain areas of interest can also help others find people and content that may be relevant. It's hopefully a more structured way to find your way around than Twitter's hashtag stew.

Good luck in all you do!
French kisses - when you greet a friend, how many times do you kiss?
http://24.media.tumblr.com/ea0ed4cd8ed84bd2d52b2b4d6e96caf7/...

Survey where strict boundaries matching the provinces of France are found. The number of kisses varies from one to five (!).
This looks great! I hope this takes off. I've been waiting for a Foundation marketplace such as this.
Only if meta-ethical moral relativism is correct.
this is great, freeze a company's bank account without even serving them:

https://mtgox.com/pdf/20130515_statement_regarding_dhs_court...
I don't think this does a good job of clarifying concurrency and parallelism - rather it muddies the waters, or perhaps I should say will have have the result of confusing many people.

While people are generally clear on what parallelism is, or at least find themselves in very much the same ballpark, there seem to be two separate and completely different common usages of 'concurrency' in vogue as part of current technical vernacular.

Articles like this draw hackles and controversy because because two groups of people who've defined the same word differently refuse to realize that they're having two completely different conversations.

While the may be a 'correct' usage, it's functionally meaningless if large segments of people refuse to recognize the 'correct' definition.

...meh. Though the article actually had some interesting things to say, it seems to sure to have them overlooked just for the sake of begetting another round of terminology war.
you mean you used something like air ?
My old nook couldn't do that. I had to have the mobile data on to use the Wifi on the flight. I briefly thought that that might (in a very unlikely scenario) result in my fiery demise, and not putting a particularly high value on my own life, continued to read wikipedia, It wasn't until I considered everyone else on board that I elected to switch back to airplane mode.
> as they won't be able to pay out when customers withdraw / transfer out the cash

Banks can't do that right now anyway. Banks only hold onto cash to meet reserve requirements, which is a fraction of the deposits held for depositors. If everyone tried in a bank to withdraw cash, you'd have a run.
Some have said that it fixes potential issues with Bitcoin (quicker confirmation time for instance). However no one really knows how much confidence will be needed for real transactions at this point, so most of the fixes are of questionable importance.
Seems to me Google Spaces is better for this kind of thing. I don't need to see if code is 100% syntax correct much less compile to know if a potential hire is a good fit and a problem solver.

I want to see him, in his own environment, how he solves problem. With spaces I can observe via shared screen how the guy codes, how proficient he is with his tools, which references he uses, etc. This reduces any barriers. More importantly, I can interact with him as he codes a solution via microphone.

Google Spaces is free.
Is it me or is anyone else having problems scrolling down the page.
This comment is somewhat parenthetical, but one thing I am glad to see is that the cyberpunk/cypherpunk spirit that was so influential in the early days of the Internet has carried on over into today. There are areas -- important ones -- where anonymity and cryptography are necessary tools in addressing various wrongs, regardless of the objections of the state. That a mainstream journalism organization like The New Yorker has recognized this, and has found it important enough to implement a technical means of addressing, shows that the work of pioneers like Zimmerman, Assange, Schwartz, and many others have been fruitful over the long term.
As the blog post announcing this points out (http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/introd...) in a lot of ways this is an extension of the mailing address or phone number that the New Yorker has advertised (and informants have been using) since the 1920s.
From the Tor design paper[1] section 5.2:

> Location-hidden services use a virtual top level domain called .onion: thus hostnames take the form x.y.onion where x is the authorization cookie and y encodes the hash of the public key.

[1] https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...
The Kings Cross example is in part due to the new Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. The newer exit is much nearer to St Pancras so if the test had been the Eurostar entrance then I'm not sure who would have won.

Given the location of the new concourse this is not as bad as it used to be. I suspect it would however be better if they sign posted the old exit onto the Euston Road as being for the buses stops, otherwise you end up walking for 5 minutes in the wrong direction and have to double back when you get above ground.
This could be a naive question, but would it be possible to allow the site to choose their public key text? That way they could choose 'newyorkerstrongbox' or similar.
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I can see it now: automated water cannons on top of every house as anti-aircraft/drone! Safe for wildlife (birds) but not for electronics. Then, waterproofed drones. Followed by silly-string cannons to gum up any rotors. Where will it end?
I like the 20000 eminent scholars mentioned on their website. Perhaps the local cemetery?
Mozilla XULrunner, the same as Firefox.
That's the one. Thank you :)

There's so much infrastructure below the streets of London - it never ceases to impress and interest me.
A tiny tiny shop..

http://www.yelp.com/biz/kiss-seafood-san-francisco#query:kis...
> The bank does lose out from this. Individual banks can't simply add millions of dollars to all accounts on a whim, as they won't be able to pay out when customers withdraw / transfer out the cash.

Please explain this.

Almost all significant transactions are electronic now. Nobody withdraws millions of dollars in physical currency.

You're just modifying rows in a database.

All the bank would do is tell the other bank that they have the money now and debit a database row which was fake to begin with?
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Feedback:

1. Make this as a webapp. Should work anywhere, like gDocs!
Think: Anyone can collaborate, so the ideas and possibilities are more.

BTW, Why did you go the platform way? any particular reason worth mentioning?

2. Have a forum for knowledgebase, to answer FAQ's, ideas and take new-questions. See OSQA or Askbot, might help you a lot in this direction.

3. Show your users, all the cool possibilities. Videos and use-cases matters most to convince anyone to try your app.

4. Get more templates, widgets(short-codes) and page-layouts. This will be cool to start-off!