skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't require them to be in the global namespace.
IMNSHO:
the future should be both VM-less and container-less.

meanwhile, containers are more efficient.
A weird version of tic-tac-toe my friends and I came up with years ago: you play without a board. Any move is valid so long as you could superimpose a standard tic-tac-toe grid over the results. (You assume the marks are at the center of their respective squares; you allow the board to be at any scale or angle, but you can't skew it.)

The first two moves have no constraint, so you can just start with an X and O already on the board. And after a few moves there might be only one implied board possible, after which it reduces to the normal game. But I always thought it was an interesting twist.
Feds: "Continue to update the canary or you disclosed the secret warrant and we throw you in prison."
US to open direct Taliban talks
Yes, now you know for a fact that using a US internet communications company will result in your data being stored or at least examined by the US government. Unfortunately there is no evidence that other countries will not apply the same tactics to whichever internet communications companies exist on their soil.
Yes, because a public record of all transactions could not possibly be used to track anyone down.
I am fairly certain that a large percentage of the human population still operates regularly without the consciousness as described by Jaynes.

At the very least, the genetically built neural machinery that our species would've had 3000 years ago is still likely to reward behaviors such as assuming gods and spirits in almost everything, enthralling oneself in crowd dynamics, and yielding to charismatic authorities.
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Do you have any citations for any of these items? Or is it just time for wild speculation? I am pretty good at that:

And they'll listen to who is pregnant in the future, and force us to all get implants for the babies, thereby making a super race of Americans to rule the world! lightning flash MWAHAHAHA.

Please cite any proof you have.
Tiny Tiny RSS for me
Quote of the day! ...sadly
All their costs are still in Sterling. It takes a long time to complete the circle and break dependence on a particular currency.
Depends what you're looking for GPU-wise (which is also one of the frustrations of the iMac range). Also, slower CPUs and memory limited to 16Gb.

In many respects, the new Mac Pro is exactly the all-round machine (development, scientific computing, plus the odd game) I've been waiting for. If it shows up with a reasonable low-end version, I'd buy it in a flash (or even sooner, given an Nvidia GPU option). But Apple have been very wary about releasing mid-range machines which might cannibalise iMac sales, so I'm not holding my breath.
I think bitcoins just count as assets
What secrets are you talking about?

Particulars don't need to be known (troop locations, battle plans, weapons capabilities/vulnerabilities, list of undercover agents in the field, specific espionage and surveillance techniques, etc), but the fact that it is happening at all should be well known and open for public comment.

Otherwise "consent of the governed" is thrown out the window.
You can disable that in the settings. Besides, it's default GR behaviour nowadays.
If you are not actually watching, the narrative of this talk is entirely defensive of the work going on by the NSA. They are flat out denying the information leaked my Mr. Snowden.

Also, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberg just said the words "True Facts"
When to best use type inference
Good luck to them.

In my view, Paper is more of a toy than a useful tool but it's not all their fault. Some will spin this more charitably with something along the lines of 'limitations foster creativity' or something like that.

Attempting to really use Paper made me realize something that's been sort of but not really bothering me since the iPad was introduced, and that is I like the tools but the application as a whole sucks. It doesn't make sense to buy a some canvas or a drawing notebook at the art store but be limited to the tools that are bundled with it. That is crazy. Not just crazy but it makes zero sense.

I can make a picture on a real piece of paper with literally anything that makes a mark, from coffee to dirt, blood, fruit, chemicals, bricks, burnt sticks (if I want to be classic), water... not to mention folding and crumpling.

the digital tablet equivalent to this will require two things.

1. complete separation of the tools from the "paper". And I mean complete. BYOT. Whatever that means.

2. a connection between physical tools and software tools. I am TOTALLY FINE with having five different physical objects to draw on my virtual tablet if it means not having to mess around with someone's idea of a genius menu and tool selection system. Really. I would actually love this so much. Look at a real artists studio: they often look like explosions happened. nobody thinks that fewer tools is better. I can find a physical tool without looking or thinking about it or messing up my train of thought. Menus and gestures and commands and even alphabetization ffs, all that "left brain" stuff is a real drag.

3. stretch objective, not really critical today but maybe 20 years from now, I'd like to have full, realistic multitouch. The day I can, for instance, make a handprint on my virtual tablet is the first day it's going to be able to reproduce detailed human expression. I might be off base on this particular one but I want it.

yeah, yeah yeah limitations and all that. digital stuff is totally different. whatever.
Mark Zuckerberg is Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button? [2010]
Yup, Gomoku is a much more difficult game than it looks. Indeed, the game is challenging enough that there is a world championship every odd year. You can find the games from the last world championship here: http://renju.net/media/games.php?gameid=45016

I am amazed by the fact that Gomoku can be so hard to master with rules so simple you can explain to a five year old. And unlike Chess where there are a hundred year of theories to learn from before you can get going, Gomoku is still new. After a few weeks studying the standard surewin openings, you can expect to see things in a very different light and the game will get much more interesting.

Perhaps Gomoku is best known for programmers as a problem to solve. But it is nowhere near being solved. In fact, the best software are weaker than many top players.

I find Gomoku hits the sweet spot when it comes to my desire to play board games. It doesn't consume much of my time. I am always excited to find those long and obscure wins. I think the game needs more love from programmers like me.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GomokuWorld
Play here: http://www.playok.com/en/gomoku/
Or here: http://fumind.com
Are you talking about YouTube? They have everything in vp8. It's something to do with their ad delivery system that forces you back to Flash (and therefore H.264) for some videos.
ancient Greeks said : τα εν οίκο, μή εν δήμο

those of the house not of the public
The calendar looks a lot better. I also vote up the use of the subtle buttons instead of colorful text buttons of iOS.
The fsf is against the use of Facebook, so quoting them on using Tor to access Facebook is kind of funny. Plus, I doubt those 36 million people are all activists. Actually, the article itself says thousands, not millions.
Requires registration to download the paper...

Mirror: http://tehlug.org/files/solove.pdf
Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks
I'm not saying that you can or should do this or that right now with a given piece of hardware, just what is and is not possible. The CPU on the FPGA's die could be fast, embedded GPUs could be better at algorithmic acceleration (here - wait for a few years, they have good stuff in their pipeline), OpenCL drivers could be easily available (of course portability would still be a real problem) and people could then program embedded GPUs more easily, etc. I've personally been developing accelerators integrated onto the same die as a CPU for a long time and it works nicely enough.
If the FISA court was transparent in any way having them issue warrants and provide oversight might be valuable. But it is not, thus that court is meaningless.
That's why a gradual release of revelations is such a good strategy. We've been seeing this in Spain in corruption cases. The target doesn't know what to expect: has the leaker had access to the real stuff or did he just scratched the surface? The danger of a too dismisive response is being caught in outright lies. With time, more people appears involved and the matter stays in the news.
What is their monetization strategy ?
The Cambridge Declaration of Consciousness
Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M
I'm actually hoping for a lot more Wikileaks-transparency to happen in the future. Governments need to be a lot more transparent, whether they like it or not.
It's pretty bad they don't even mention Windows Azure - their Web Sites service is already using containers, though only on the free tier for right now.
That is huge, and I'd never heard of it before.
I was a former Apple specialist back in the day. Our job was to make the customers happy. No one in the Apple store gets commission. We were trained to help the customer find the right solution, not the most expensive one. Of course every interaction will be different since we are dealing with two humans communicating. But in general specialists try to "right sell" instead of up sell.
Fever is very nice. There's even some code on GitHub to import your starred google reader items into Fever.

https://github.com/darkimmortal/fever-google-starred-importe...

I needed a way to bring my starred items in. I had too much great stuff starred to not retain access to it.
Did anyone try pressforward* yet?

https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward

http://aramzs.tumblr.com/post/53276697558/pressforward-plugi...

*"the Google Reader replacement that runs inside your WordPress install"
Around 45% of new teachers leave the profession within 5 years. Is a degree in education (or a post-bac year in
California) worth the time and money invested? What
other professions have similar turnover rates?

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/americas/27iht-teac...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/03/08/high-teacher...
It is not deliberate from Facebook. See: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-and-tor
Why would the NSA not be able to store all phone calls as audio? If we assume 30 minutes per person per day to store at compressed 20kbps at $0.12 per gigabyte per year (this is what you pay at Amazon), that costs $60 million to store for the data of a year's worth of phone calls of the entire population of the US. The budget of the NSA is more than $10 billion, so that's less than 0.6% of its budget. That is entirely doable. Note that I have grossly overestimated the cost here by assuming that price per gigabyteyear is what you pay Amazon, and 30 minutes per person per day is probably an overestimate, and the compression could be better too. The actual cost is probably closer to $10 million; less than one thousandth of the NSA's budget.
The focus on content over meta-data is a red-herring. What you say during the phone call is just that...something you say. The meta-data shows what you do.

A person browses the web at a doctor's office. Forty-five minutes later, that person calls their spouse, then an oncologist. A few days later, their spouse checks email from the oncologists office. An hour later a call is made to a diagnostic center by the first person. The next day, they call their mother and a surgeon. [see interview with Susan Landau: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/12/more_intrusive_than_ea... ]

The conclusions which can be drawn from that meta-data are far more solid than can be drawn from listening in to any or all of the phone calls.

Your phone calls don't show what time you get up in the morning, or when you get to work or walk the dog to the park. The meta-data does.

The focus on the content of calls is 50 years out of date. The meta-data show the best time to burgle your house or fake your identity online. They show where you go and who you associate with. There's no need to know what you said.
When ever I get around to it, that is what I'm going to try. I've heard good things about it. and if it works, I'll never have to worry about switching again.
Except if you actually read the linked page it says that it's at least partially due to the 7% fees have to deal with when converting the BTC back to sterling, which is all they're really interested in.

Add on whatever fees you pay to get hold of the BTC in the first place and you have quite an expensive system.
I know that the Government can force you to lie already - If you're American, go look at your milk container.

It will likely say something like "No rBST Artificial Hormones" and next to it it will say "No significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rbST-treated and non-rbST-treated cows."

That label is government mandated, and by law can't even be prefaced with something like "The following is Government mandated" or "We're forced to say."

This is a lie, because other parts of the government (not the FDA) have found material differences in the milk between untreated/treated cows.
The comercial tools market is usually based around "flows," which is a fancy way to say they try to bundle their offerings. While Xilinx is primarily interested in an FPGA flow, Synopsys of course would be happy to help you retarget your design to the more expensive ASIC flows as well. In addition, Synopsys offers hardware prototyping & emulation. All of which means while there's competition with Xilinx (and Altera, and Mathworks too) each vendor is focused a different use case of FPGA's.
Ask HN: I've started an OSS decentralized search engine a while ago / need help
With others, I've started the Seeks Project, http://www.seeks-project.info a while ago, but development has stalled for a while now because of a lack of developers to help with it. Users and demand is still there, especially wrt. the recent Prism scandal.<p>This is an appeal for help ;)
Just a reminder, the deadline for comments on the TSA's body scanners is Monday. http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=TSA-2013-0004 has the info.
Because I think yashkadakia's Google link was too oblique a response, here's my answer: the concerns are that A) a foreign owned U.S. telecom might refuse to provide the data NSA or other government agencies want (or reveal that they had been asked) and B) a foreign owned U.S. telecom might do the same sort of spying on behalf of their "home" country.
It happened a while back, when Bobby Kehres told my colleague and I about the game. https://github.com/1337/Tic-Tac-Toe-Extreme
The neural correlates might not clarify what consciousness is, but they might yield answers to precise scientific questions

I don't deny that at all, in fact it is quite precisely what I endorse. Notice that the term consciousness lies on the left side, the excluded part. On the right side, you use the better-defined term, awareness. A definition that comes with better philosophical understanding. TFA, however, talks of qualia.

We might need to first answer to such questions before we gain any new insights of more philosophical nature.

I would say "different" rather than "more." Philosophy doesn't mean "weird stuff we don't really understand" and it can often be as boring as the implications of simple arithmetic or even the logic used in scientific endeavors. I wouldn't want to throw that out in the name of progress either.

I cannot agree the results are meaningless or "only reaffirm our prejudices".

The results described by the article and supported here are of the form "consciousness is X" where no question was asked that is answerable directly in terms of X, and no reconciliation has been made. That is the sense of meaninglessness I'm talking about. If you're still in doubt, or think that's somehow unimportant, grab the bull by the horns and deal with the implication that this is somehow ultimately a measure of qualia.

My only point is really that the lack of a great definition of consciousness doesn't diminish the value of research like the one cited here.

In that phrasing I am almost in agreement, if it wasn't for some of the claims made. Some very interesting things are being measured, but to go from these measurements to things like qualia is a leap I can't justify. A correlation between these measures and alertness, intelligence and kinds of awareness are easy to establish or contradict, and better yet: given those connections who is going to say "yeah but what are these results over here? it looks like manifest experience!"—?
So long as the fix isn't to give all nations a say in the governance -- because then it devolves to the lowest common denominator.

If there's a fix, it should be some means of taking out of governmental hands altogether.
The article slams Alito, but the judgment was 5-4. Whenever rulings are this close, it suggests that there are nuances and rationale arguments on both sides.

As disconcerting as this ruling is, there is likely more to this than the headline. For example, it seems that one's 5th ammendment right against self-incrimination is preserved in this ruling so long as one verbally invokes it, i.e., "I plead the fifth".

No, it's not ideal, and it gives a great deal of power to law enforcement, which will sometimes be wielded irresponsibly. But, destroyed? - that's a bit hyperbolic.
Linux now has fair sharing for CPU, disk, and network if you can figure out how to configure it. Or you can use cgroups to guarantee resources to make containers act more like VMs.
> I don't think this can be called DI

Sure it can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection#Manually_i... http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html#Construc...

> because you're not injecting them, you're passing them to the constructor

Injection simply means that the dependency is sent from outside the class. That's exactly what's happening in the constructor example.

> The problem with this model is that you're polluting your constructors with non-functional arguments

I don't consider it "pollution." Who says that IDependency is non-functional? I don't think I've ever injected a non-functional dependency.

> if you want to change one of these, you have to change all your constructor calls!

This is a red herring. If you have to change all your calls, you failed to make your code DRY. That's the programmer's fault. Use a factory or default arguments.

95% of the time, the reason for injecting a dependency is that you want to use a fake implementation in your unit tests, but a particular concrete example in your production code. Have the default constructor setup the concrete dependency and use the extra constructor for your unit tests. This works most of the time for me.

interface IDependency {
void doSomething();
}

class Foo {
Foo(IDependency) { ... } // for unit tests
Foo() { this(new ConcreteDependency()); } // for production
}

Doing DI manually requires a little bit of skill, but not much. I actually find that it teaches design principles more than it requires apriori knowledge of them. Having never used a configuration-based DI tool, it wouldn't be fair for me to conclude with any comparison between the approaches. However, given that this conversation started when you complained that DI tools subvert a static type system, I'm inclined to believe that the DI tools introduce accidental complexities that outweigh their benefits in the simplest use cases.
> This is a horrible result - how can law enforcement be effective if no one trusts them enough to willingly assist them?

I agree. I would much prefer living under a legal code where we could even estimate the number of federal crimes. I want to live in a country where possession of a rare bird feather isn't a felony [1]. Unfortunately, that country is not the US today, and as such you can't trust LEOs.

> Their job just got tougher today.

It really didn't, not by much. There's one born every minute. The fraction of the US population that doesn't understand their basic constitutional rights, or the restrictions put on the police force, is overwhelming. See [2].

Honestly, just look through the entire collection of comics I linked to. They're definitely worth your time.

1. http://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/29326904495/16-a-pr...
2. http://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/19810672629/12-i-wa...
This is why I thought the AFT's suggestion on a rigorous exam was ludicrous too. Does passing the bar make lawyers better law teachers?
Easy to automate might not be the best goal for a system like this :)
Is that your attempt to take me to The Perf Room?

I'm not at Google anymore, so I have no fear of it. Google's Perf Room is just a cheap knock-off of Room 101. I don't think most of the branch offices even have a dedicated Perf Room.
I just clicked the OP link, then clicked "Download this paper" and I had it. I have no account and have never visited SSRN before...

EDIT: On clicking "download" a second time, I do get a login page -- but it still has a "download anonymously" option, says you just won't count towards the paper's stats.
"Attention! Today we have received no secret warrants cough cough

wink wink"
A restaurant is overkill, how about just a vending machine? You could put quite a markup on them (like $5 a bottle) and people would buy them for the time savings.
http://blogtrottr.com/ combined with discipline about what I subscribe to. Now I just want a better email client.
Just use H.264 which is still supported in Chrome.
You really should, I've got one at my office and one at home.
In 1998 a colleague of mine received a DARPA request to develop a tape-based recording device that -- it was obvious from some quick calculations -- would be capable of archiving all voice communications going in and out of the country. We could think of no other application for that kind of technology, and assumed that the real client was the NSA.

At the time, storing such a quantity of data was completely infeasible within the physical space & budgetary constraints of the proposed program was completely infeasible. We told them so, and the project went away. However, given that:

1.) They were trying to do this 15 years ago, and

2.) Both their budget and the technological state of the art has improved substantially since then, and

3.) The government these days seems happy to treat citizens' rights with the same general contempt as non-citizens' rights, given some creative re-definitions of terms and rubber-stamp lawyering...

...I would not be at all surprised to learn that a program like this was in fact well-established by this point.
I disagree. Only 20 years ago the GP would be saying "Only techies use email, web, etc."

People get better at this stuff, but slowly. The current privacy issue is growing in the public consciousness, spurring action from "techies". Maybe 20 years from now easy to use encryption will be the norm, even among regular people.
Moon Machines: The Navigation Computer
Or you could try eating a healthy meal.
The use of the word "Blacklists" for "No-Fly Lists" in the headline is confusing.
A Red Rocket card can be attached to your thunderbolt workstation video this http://www.mlogic.com/products/mlink-r which is currently listed at $599.

I don't know that TB1 will have enough bandwidth for the new Red Rocket X card, and I'm not yet aware of any TB2 -> PCIe chassis for sale.
Teaching to See - Inge Druckrey
This. And perhaps even your whole identity.

The world is so different place in unsafe countries, people might be playing with their lives(and lives of their close ones) for doing this stuff. It's not unlikely for a totalitarian government to assassinate opposition, to physically kill activists. You say that's wrong, but I ask whatcha gonna do about it?

Lets let them use TOR.
Daniel Solove also wrote a longer version of this in his book:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0300172338