skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My limited understanding is that it is from one of the hairs in your inner ear being bent or broken in some way - the hair itself doesn't move, but since it's bent in the way airwaves could are able to bend it momentarily, the brain interprets it as it being in that momentary state permanently. Waveform cancellation happens at a physical level - it wouldn't "unbend" the hair as the hair isn't actually moving.

I don't actually know though, this is just my understanding.
Indeed. Additionally there are questions regarding how clear a statute needs to be before you send people to prison for 5 years. Crime by analogy, once the bread and butter of Soviet justice, has unfortunately been becoming more common in the US (see the prosecution of Jeffrey Skilling for "honest services fraud" and the prosecution of Dr Hurwitz for unlawful distribution of narcotics).
Totally agree. Plus, it's in a PM's selfish long-term interests to keep the team motivated by deflecting praise.
Maybe homomorphic encryption[0] could help here? Here's what comes up after a quick Google: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/IBM-Uncovers-Encryption-Sc...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Yes, assuming that regexes are actually being used to parse real-world languages like C++ is charmingly naive.
Matt- would love to have you for a coffee in our SoHo office. -madho
I'm confused at how this is a "source."

You could say the same about North Korea, but it wouldn't make it mean they actually offered asylum.
If you want comments, try kickass.to - they have a much nicer interface, and I seem to see more comments. Pirate Bay still has more material though....
I believed Hyper V is more suited if the machine is a server hosting the VM, where client remote into this server from another machine (correct me if I am wrong; perhaps Xen works the same way as well).

It would be nice to get some suggestions on Minimalist/Lightweight Host OS to run VirtualBox. Lubuntu?
CTO intro to NuoDB 
Video by CTO Seth Proctor that explains how NuoDB works.
I totally agree. I think the best PMs actually leave at least 20% of their roadmap for engineers to tell them what else needs to be built.
This is about the 高考 (gaokao) or the university entrance exam. There are many discussions about this since ages. The parents in other provinces think it is unfair their child needs a higher score than those from Beijing; well, the cheating is one reason, but also the universities are paid by the taxpayers from Beijing. In short: This exam decides a lot about the students future... If they have a bad score, no good uni, no good future. After this, only money can help you get a way to buy you into education or a good future.
Wallenda Tight Ropes Across Grand Canyon (World Record)
If all your actual email is encrypted then by definition spam is the unencrypted stuff. A long time ago in a different galaxy I built a PGP MTA (based on sendmail at the time) which only forwarded mail that was encrypted, and as expected it was spam free, all though these days spammers just might go to the trouble of sending it encrypted if they thought it would get through.
Yeah, that wouldn't be too hard to set up. You could run arbitrary services that way -- the key would be keeping configurations totally locked down, so all config edits happen through some kind of defined interface, to let the service provider do full testing. But I don't think individual mailboxes would be very likely to cause changed in testing before deploying upgrades.

You could just use the "virtual appliance" model and do virtual machine level upgrades, with data on a separate partition -- less of a hassle than testing a bunch of upgrades from smaller patches (the paranoia about breaking it is that the service provider doesn't have root, so a failed upgrade could be bad). I'd probably want encrypted backups held with the provider too, for most non sophisticated users.
It's naive to assume the government wouldn't be able to figure out such an obvious scheme. I disapprove of civil forfeiture laws as a matter of policy, but your proposed mechanism for outwitting them is absurd.
It could be a crowd-sourced effort -- e-mails that are spam you mark as spam and upload to some repo that is maintained by someone (a la Adblock). You keep your filters updated, and run your e-mail against the filters file.
I built my career as a PM before becoming a CEO, so this might not be just another one of those posts. Are there market-leading products that have been built with lead $15/hr engineers? Please call out a few, I would love to learn about a few of them.
The US could cut its military budget by more than half and not have to even become less offensive. It might need to stop building weapon systems to win a war against the Soviet Union though.

Setting aside the tanks that are built solely to keep congressmen in office, consider US carrier groups — around which the entire US surface fleet is built — it's an open scandal that military exercises with allies frequently result in US carriers being taken out by diesel subs and cruise missiles, but rather than realize that the carrier group is now just as obsolete as the battleship flotilla, the rules of the game get changed. It's like the Japanese planning for Midway all over again (where naval cadets did exactly what the US did and annihilated the Japanese forces so they changed the rules and ran the simulation again).
Might want to post this on http://www.reddit.com/r/karmaconspiracy.
In theory, the supreme court should see through "loop holes" and interpret the meaning of the constitution, not just the words.
Up until a few weeks ago, I used plastic almost exclusively. Since that time, I've began keeping cash on me and using it whenever possible.
According to Wolfram, Cook's job was to prove Rule 110 was universal. Cook didn't "discover" it as an independent action.

In a very direct sense, this was a software development task, where the program that was being written was precisely a universal program (through several layers of emulation, of course; rule 110 -> 'particle computer' -> cyclic tag system -> Turing machine). It's an impressive program, but also quite mechanical. More details: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-681#previous

Here's the timeline as far as I've been able to determine, mostly from sources inside the company:

0. Wolfram tasked Cook with finding a proof that 110 was universal.

1. With encouragement and help, Cook finished the proof many years before the book was ready.

2. Cook tried to publish the program/proof at some complexity conference.

3. Wolfram asked him not to, because it was against the terms of his contract.

4. Cook agreed not to, but then did it anyway.

5. Wolfram threatened legal action to prevent the proof being published.

This kind of thing is clearly a breakdown of the relationship between Cook and Wolfram. Is there a good guy and a bad guy? Maybe, maybe not. But if we see this proof as a program, I'm sure many people would agree that publishing code one was paid to write, without permission, is kind of a no-no.

To my mind, this doesn't so much paint Wolfram as a lawsuit-happy egomaniac as it does expose some of the contradictions of a running a private company as a commercial venture and as a vehicle for one's own research.

edit: I work for Wolfram, as probably some HN users already know and as I mention elsewhere on this thread. But when I heard about the whole Cook thing a couple of years ago, I asked around about what happened to make sure I wasn't working for a company that was unethical. The above is what I was able to determine.
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So if they registered a different domain and used that one instead, would Google's "ban" follow them, or does the MPAA have to go through the whole process again?
There was an old running joke among mathematicians in university math departments

"Q: How does one apply for a job with the NSA?"

"A: Pick up the phone, call your mother, and ask for the applications forms"
> After seeing how free Americans really are I am now unsure about moving there.

As an American currently in Indonesia, I can totally understand where you are coming from. The major thing America has going for it economically at the moment is not freedom but just money and the university system. However with globalization, I think there are plenty of good opportunities everywhere in the world.
I think I am responding more to the way you have set the scene where we have non-technical product managers owning technical products. I think if this situation exists you've actually got a fucked company or at least some serious org-level trouble with the division of roles and responsibilities and probably not something you could fix by head-shrinking your product people.

Actually it's funny if you think about it the only way non-technical product managers maintain their positions owning technical products is by finding such companies and actively partaking in all the what you may think behavior. Forgive me if this whole piece is intended as subtle irony in which case I say well done and humbly accept my swoosh.
No need to go that far. The provider just pushes code to a server the user controls. The code is trusted to just do mail server with no backdoor for the service provider to get data. That code executes in an environment trusted by the data owner, so the code is allowed to see the data and process based on it.

I'm kind of tempted to do this, since we largely do this kind of thing for VPN already. Doing it with trusted execution lets the code execute on hardware owned by the service provider, but that is technically difficult and hard to prove. Just letting you run code on your own virtual machine host is a lot easier (could be a third party virtualization provider if that is what you want, but I'd at least go for colo of my own server, if not on premise.)
> That's a bit simplistic, no?

The art of good propaganda is simplicity. The aim is to convince the masses, not confuse them.
Yes, relatively healthy. You'd be amazed at the crap diets some people subsist on.
> "The article's trap" ?

Just because readers join the dots to reveal a conspiracy picture, doesn't mean the picture isn't convincing or removed from reality or designed to satisfy egos.

Just a coincidence you say?

The fact is, Kelly said "There isn't enough information shared". Okay... so he clearly believes more information should be shared between Facebook and the NSA. Now he has gone to work for the NSA. 1 + 1 = 2.

It's gone beyond "theory" and is now simply playing out like a documentary in real time.

Grab yourself some popcorn.
> I'm kind of tempted to do this, since we largely do this kind off thing for VPN already.

Take advantage of the zeitgeist rdl.

You can look forward to at least one customer if you decide to go ahead with this. (me). :)
> I think this is very, very dangerous.

I agree. But, we should not be
surprised since Jefferson told us

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

I believe, certainly I hope, that the SCOTUS
will see the danger with crystal
clarity. E.g., one of the main concerns
of the founding fathers and objectives
of the Constitution was to limit the
powers of the central government and
just because of the "dangers". I'd
bet that the SCOTUS will see all this
and not weasel out with some
nonsense about "aiding enemies of the US".

We need to protect the Constitution
and the rest of the US, not sacrifice
one for the other -- yup, Franklin
said something like that.
Step 1) Head to the "New" page [https://news.ycombinator.com/newest]

Step 2) Vote for content you'd rather see
A simple solution (and I see a couple of requests here) is to use eventlet as the underlying concurrency library and then just spawn a green thread (or a green pool! to limit concurrency) to handle long running/background tasks.
In the IPhone 5, the glass and digitizer are bonded. Apple charges $149 to replace them. I'm sure it's possible to do it cheaper.
Changelog: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/v1.0.0-rc.6/CHANGEL...

Lots of cool stuff in this release, but the best of it is Alex Matchneer's excellent "Router facelift" patch, which standardizes and promise-ifies the router (while not changing the public API, unlike the last router update). He wrote a guide to it here: https://gist.github.com/machty/5723945
Why not automate it and have butt sensors in the seats of the buses? (might have handrail/grip sensors too) Requiring the general public to consistently provide data is not the best method for accuracy. With the sensors you not only get a count but also weight distribution and other possible useful bits as well.
"Shamrock covered decades-old secret agreements with the nation's large telegraph companies under which NSA and its predecessor agencies automatically received copies of international telegrams.

"At the peak of the operation, in the early 1970s, NSA analysts were reviewing 150,000 telegrams a month selected by computers scanning for keywords of interest to U.S. intelligence. Only in 1975, as Senator Church's committee began its inquiry, was Shamrock stopped."
Chomsky: Spying Does Not Protect You
Yes, the iCracked iPhone 4 screen repair usually runs around $80 with a 99 Year Part Warranty. iPhone 5 Parts are more costly right now and thus the repair cost is higher.
That's their job and why we
try to put smart people there.
State Machinery For State Machines
The last time I came across this article I was excited to learn about 'path parameters' / 'matrix parameters' but I couldn't find anything that actually supports them, at least in node.js.

Shame, I can see a use for them.
Relying on inefficiency as protection against the government is rarely a good bet. We've already seen a dramatic increase in national security spending; they will obtain the resources they need.

We need a new Wiretap Act to apply to non-voice communications.
It's sad that the classical education is no more, but it's also true that the humanities rotted from within. Because carrying on the traditions of arts and letters was no longer considered valuable, the disciplines rushed to gut themselves in favor of far shallower and dodgier stuff, like political ideologies ("the only things that matter are race, class, and gender") and pseudo-technical gibberish. None of that has lasting value and none of it touches the heart of why a student would want to devote themselves to things like literature, philosophy, or art history. So over the same time period that these fields have been losing social and intellectual status, they've also been becoming less valuable.

They're not going to disappear, and maybe it's a good thing if they become de-institutionalized for a century or two. I admit to being bothered by it, though. By the time I went to university it was already no longer possible to get what I would call a real education. Meanwhile there is a smugness that goes along with purely technical training, a certainty that its way is the only valuable way, that calls itself education but whose true name is Philistinism, and I feel sad that that mentality is taking over our society completely.
I found this quote the most interesting:

"When I see Josie clutching her grandmother’s Kindle to play Angry Birds for the 10th straight time, or I watch my son stuporously soaking up a cartoon, I’m really seeing myself as a kid — anxious, needy for love but willing to settle for electronic distraction to soothe my nerves or hold tedium at bay."

The more I think of it, the more convinced I become that 9 times out of 10 a smartphone is an escape hatch for some sort if anxiety, although not necessarily the one that the author describes here.

It's not the smartphone that's the problem, it's the malformed, addictive behavior of responding to anxiety with distraction.
Show HN: Missing GitHub Feature, now a chrome extension
Another alternative could be to show r/all by default and present it as a "un-sub from what you don't like" sort of option.
Can you provide a specific example of a scientific discovery he claims is his own but was in fact discovered by someone else?
Very good point. Bureaucracy does tend to lead us down certain roads not originally intended by those who set up the bureaucratic systems.

Conspiracy is a way to draw attention to those bureaucratic failings, otherwise ignored as too hard, or too boring to think about. Which might mean "conspiracy" itself is an important process deserving more respect if it's the only way to shine a light on imperfect bureaucracy.
> Isolationism will only make things worse.

You are misusing "isolationism" here. The word you are looking for is "non-interventionism". What OP was suggesting was that the US should "stop supporting the abusive policies of Israel", not stop all trade, travel, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism
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We hope. The alternative is a bunch of Dr. Strangeloves are running things.
Yeah, that's really why people go work for the DMV.
Your math is wrong, and your assumptions incorrect.
I like to imagine a bizarro literature based Hacker News where a person is saying "Do you really need a full Comp Sci major to write code? Seems like one or two classes would do."

Of course you don't need to take an English major to write properly. But that is rarely the goal of taking an English major. Very few majors are actually about the mastery of one skill.
Does anyone have a good example app which is more involved than a single or couple of models and uses ember data?

Hacking this past weekend it seems harder to find much in the way of solid guidance past very simple apps.
I'm amused by the fact that a link is broken in the very first paragraph due (presumably) to a poor linkifier and what it thinks of URL encoding (or potentially other syntactic features of the source language). The document was probably done in Markdown, and the trailing right parenthesis in the link is not treated as part of the URL, so instead of being http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language) the link target becomes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language with the parenthesis appearing after the link.

Assuming Markdown, that would be::

[Java](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language))

Bad parser.
While I don't consider this a huge revelation or issue, dismissing the employment of the former cso of the greatest private intelligence source in history by the greatest intelligence consumer in history as coincidence without a second thought is hopelessly naive. If you dismiss anything vaguely conspiratorial as a "conspiracy theory" out of hand you'd dismiss pretty much every active intelligence program we have.
I've been chugging away at a direct translation of RFC 2616 into parser/pretty-printer pairs in Haskell [1]. It's taken me a few times to get it right and I've learned a bit in the process such as RFC 2396 having an ambiguous grammar (look for 2 calls to `micro` in my code which penalize parsing to simulate a greedy algorithm). I cannot imagine almost any URL decoder/encoder 'in the wild' being actually RFC compliant.

There's also some difficulty with how RFC 2616 (the current HTTP/1.1 spec) demands using definitions of URLs from RFC 2396 which is not the current URI spec, but the update URI spec seemed to me to be inconsistent with general usage of HTTP. If I remember correctly, it ended up implying that you cannot have a query string without sending your scheme as well, but I may be wrong.

The URI spec is hideously complex, but also very comprehensively defined in those RFCs. It's an interesting job to look through them.

[1] https://github.com/tel/requests
At least, I don't think A* is used in any decent high-end video games anymore - it has been dethroned by the open source recast-navigation library and its algorithm [1]. I even suspect the real-time strategy game starcraft 2 from using it or a modified version of it.

It is not based on a 2d grid but could be. Also, at one step of the algorithm, recast use A* but somewhat orthogonaly from the main pathfinding algorithm which ultimately could stand on its own. It don't like real-time changes of the world-state, but with some work it could.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/recastnavigation/
My dad worked on the first accelerator lab at UT many years ago.

He tells this story about someone accidentally accelerating a mass on a prototype rail gun in the basement. Someone got a unit conversion wrong -- it went through about 5 walls before it got stopped by a lot of dirt.

So my first reaction to undergrads with high energy accelerators is: what could possibly go wrong? It still sounds mighty cool.
"The author is basically directly attacking some poor bastard who works at Naughty Dog."

No. Decisions about IP are never "just one person". They involve layers of approvals and sign-offs, some creative, some financial, some legal. That's not to say that mistakes don't happen. Of course they happen. But you're not dealing with one person here, you're dealing with a system. And clearly, it's a system that could stand to be tighter than it is.
"Biggest operation" can mean many things.

Just consider the time spent on TV, the time by pundits spent rationalizing it, the time spent in secret discussions with allies, the INCREDIBLY HUGE budgets, the vast network of stationed weapons and personel, the vast network of snoops, the ripple effect it had and has on authoritative regimes all over the world ("living in a post-9/11 world" you say? cut me a piece of that!), and the vulture corporations getting in on all that. And then there is the fact that with the current trajectory it will go on forever, as we've been proudly been told from day one.

Though I wouldn't call that "Obama's campaign", he did expand it, and he is currently responsible for it continuing while he wards of clouds that could rain on the parade.
When people see how bad it is,
e.g., the IRS grabbing money out
of their bank accounts,
the people will understand "what's in it".

The people who passed it had their fun
and, due to the delay in implementation,
so far have not had to pay for their fun.

When people don't like it,
Congress can repeal it, and the
next president can sign the repeal.
Mostly the waste will have been
however many paper pushers wrote
10^10th pages of bureaucratic nonsense
no one will ever read.
3 years ago my clients (top 100 European banks, car companies, luxury goods) would reluctantly let us host data at aws European servers. They would never allow hosting at u.s. servers.

Now they won't allow aws at all and everything is in chaos.
Wow, me and tomsaffell practically called it:

"I'm beginning to suspect someone confused a mg/mcg/μg somewhere; that seems like the Occam's razor explanation..."

"But something doesn't quite add up... which if true would contradict the FDA's results... What are we (or I) missing?"

"It doesn't make sense to me either. If the FDA found n.d. levels of lead in all their samples, you would expect some of the new study's samples to have low levels as well."

"Right, the low end of the range should be much lower. Right now, my money is on a units error."
If the Bitcoins do get spent sometime later, you could argue someone likely bruteforced the passphrase (it was only 12 characters long). That's still reasonable doubt.

Good luck arguing that that a password with 78-bit entropy (12 characters out of 95 in the ASCII set) was likely broken by brute force. 'Reasonable doubt' does not mean 'no matter how improbable,' otherwise nobody would ever get convicted.
29-year-olds think differently than 39-year-olds. He's probably more focused on the details, than the next 40 years.
Do you care to enlighten or this is the best you could do to make a counter-argument?
This would be a terrible move for the US as it sets the example that leaking classified information is okay. Whether you believe what he did was right or wrong, he needs to face the consequences of his actions.
Specifically, Bronze is a good game to get started, with some game features and a help system designed for beginners.
Some people get surgery to cut their cochlear nerve, and they still hear it. Tinnitus often originates in the brain.