skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking that the US Government would have a much
harder time prosecuting a high-profile, wealthy CEO

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a...

"Only One Big Telecom CEO Refused To Cave To The NSA ...
And He's Been In Jail For 4 Years

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...

We know what happened in the case of QWest before 9/11.
They contacted the CEO/Chairman asking to wiretap all the
customers. After he consulted with Legal, he refused. As
a result, NSA canceled a bunch of unrelated billion dollar
contracts that QWest was the top bidder for. And then the
DoJ targeted him and prosecuted him and put him in prison
for insider trading -- on the theory that he knew of
anticipated income from secret programs that QWest was
planning for the government, while the public didn't
because it was classified and he couldn't legally tell
them, and then he bought or sold QWest stock
knowing those things.

This CEO's name is Joseph P. Nacchio and TODAY he's still
serving a trumped-up 6-year federal prison sentence today
for quietly refusing an NSA demand to massively wiretap
his customers.
N.S.A. Imposes Rules to Protect Secret Data Stored on Its Networks
"SpaceX's focus on reusable technology has slashed costs – the company says it can get an astronaut to the space station for $20m, versus $70m charged by Russia for a seat on a Soyuz rocket.
SpaceX is testing reusable prototype rockets that can return to Earth intact, rather than burn up in the atmosphere.
If successful, rockets could be reused like aeroplanes, cutting the price of a space mission to just $200,000, for fuel."

This is amazing.
And PGMs make it so you can use context to disambiguate things, so it can go beyond 1:1 sign-word recognition. Not sure if the researchers here are doing that yet, though.
"The hardcore flying saucer cultist, on the other hand, is a very special personality who has thus far escaped close scrutiny by the scientific community. Contrary to Buckner's finding, a poll of 250 hardcore "ufologists" in the United States in 1969 determined their median age to be 31. Teen-agers and house-wives constitute the most active groups, collecting clippings of sightings and issuing amateur newsletters and magazines, usually mimeographed. The classic search for identity plays an important role. The teen-aged ufologist is most often isolated on a farm, or separated from his peers because of his eccentric personality." The Flying Saucer Subculture, John Keel (1973)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph

I'd always wondered how you produced a zine before personal computers.
PAE was turned on but the licensing control code made by Microsoft checked if it's a consumer version of the OS or if it's a server, and if it's a server which version, and based on this decided how many memory to give to 32-bit OS. Consumer versions remained limited to 4 GB. This is detailed in the analysis of Geoff Chappell:

http://geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/license/memory.htm
A 83% completion rate is actually extremely high for a MOOC course, typical rates are less than 10%:

http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html

Presumably, the fee charged led to many borderline cases sticking out the course, but then flunking the final.
Ok. I get it. You hate paying severance, and I understand how unpleasant it must feel. Tell me, how do you feel about staff members leaving your employ without notice?
I am not a programmer, but it seems to me the logical thing to do would be to operate on the binary values of 1 and 2.

Since 1d = 01b and 2d = 10b...

1 AND 2 = 01 AND 10 = 00 = 0

1 OR 2 = 01 OR 10 = 11 = 3
Part 1 of Douglas Crockford's On JavaScript gives a really nice history of the many programming languages leading up to JavaScript.

Chapter 1: The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg

Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO1Wnu-xKoY
Clicking that link from a PC turns on itunes and downloads the app. I'm in the US.
I met an amazing young woman at USC, she was 12 and taking the same Physics class I was as a sophmore EE. She could recite any formula in the textbook, call up any worked problem in the handouts or previous exams, she was getting the highest grade in the class. She didn't understand physics.

I wonder if her abilities moderated as she went through puberty and into young adulthood. I felt sad for her, as her life to that point had been nothing but academic achievement brought about by memorization. I've always had a selective memory (for some reasons I can remember a lot of lyrics from songs in the 70's and pretty much every science fiction book I ever read, at least its structure) but I've never been satisfied with rote learning. Did not seem to bother her though so I guess it balances out.
Can't think of many examples of countries in the SAME situation. Because just "being a country" and "agrarian" is not enough classify a country in the same boat as those.

Russia has a long history of serfdom, an authoritarian regime, young people passionate about change, a huge territory and large population etc. China, about the same, only much larger.

In fact, if anything it's the opposite: most countries failed to ever make the transition (most of the third world for example, Africa, Asia, Latin America).

As for the Western countries that made the same transition:

a) some made it peacefully (those that were in better position to do so, namely: small and manageable, with an established social order from before, no dangerous neighbours and plenty of money rolling in).

b) others had no "starving of millions of people to death" mainly because they got a good deal out of starving millions of OTHER people to death. E.g France, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, financing their industrial age with looting and enslaving their colonies in Africa, Asia, etc.

(And we should not forget the bloody continental European wars and revolutions that got a lot of countries out of agrarian feudalism and aristocracy and into the modern type industrial republic. Millions died in the French Revolution, the Napoleonian wars and the subsequent turmoil than made France into a modern republic, and then there was WWI. The difference is that China, more slow moving, went through a similar situation well in the 20th Century).
Why try to build two apps at once? One is hard enough.
"So, yes, they [government] must pay. And the reason that’ll be enforced is because lawyers and accountants will be on their ass. And just to answer some obvious things, yeah, if they have a specific criminal investigation, they don’t have to tell the people in advance that they’re getting paid, because that would reveal it. Yeah, that would be under court order; that should be an exception, as it always has to be in a democracy. They will not be able to do omni spying anymore. They won’t be able to spy in advance without people knowing they’re being spied on, because the people will get money, and that’s proper. It is actually a totally reasonable solution."

So government will have to pay us for the data that they are getting for free from companies that are getting it for free? What would that even look like and how would we get there from where we are now (Gov threatens companies to fork over information they get for free from users)? And there's no mention of free encryption services that are starting to emerge…

Idk, he starts out talking about current issues, then tries to put perspective on it by referencing 19th and 20th century issues, ideas and their implementations (at this point I'm thinking "hmm, maybe there is a pattern he is going to point out that could give us insight on how we could at least be in the frame of mind to approach the issues"), and then tries to connect that to what is going on now by vaguely identifying one issue, placing it in a vacuum separated from the issues hes brought up before, and then makes the claim above. I'm lost, but maybe there's something in this direction…
I wonder how old this data is. I looked up one person I know who hasn't worked on the hill since 2010.
The ability to remember music is more like chessmasters being able to remember configurations of the chess board who can remember any chess board configuration but suddenly become like any of us when trying to memorize an impossible configuration.
It is, for example, unlikely that Mozard would have had instant recall for Indian music that has many rhythms, 22 tones in an octave and some very different harmonic constructions.
Essentially a well trained ear can remember the music, but not the sound.
1) 64-bit has bigger overhead. If you have, for example, 8 GB maximum (e.g. a notebook) then you'll have the advantage of having more RAM available by using 32-bit system. If you just use a notebook for surfing, you wouldn't care. If you did something that had specific memory needs, it was the best solution before the notebooks with more RAM possible appeared.

2) Other hardware compatibility as there is still enough hardware without 64-bit drivers. But don't expect too much there: some kind of such hardware will have problem with this patch though. You'd have to try to be sure.

Now that even notebooks allow 16 GB the patch is becoming less relevant.
Sterilize some drones and send them on in.
Yeah, not going to happen. Those prices are insane by Detroit standards. The next big move will be to the west, where land is little more than free. Why fix a heavily indebted society when you can create your own for pennies on the dollar.
> People who seriously maintain that the US government was behind 9/11 are kooks, same as creationists and people who think reptilian Jewish Freemasons control the world

You forgot to mention the Arizona farm where Jim Morrison and JFK are living together.

Your debating skills suck. If you wish to be taken seriously, don't engage in namecalling and don't conflate issues by adding Bigfoot poison to the mix. It wrecks your cred.
New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data
It was pulled because the GPL license made Apple sad. Now it's MPL (Mozilla Public License) which Apple doesn't have a problem with.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/07/18/vlc-for-ios-will-retur...
Where are they getting that $40/month number? The site it links to claims $80, which is more than double their two supposed-to-be shockingly-high-cost examples. If it's just the subscription fees, the listed percentages are lowest at the extremely-high-$ ESPN values at 71%, and go up to high-80% and 90% in the other categories, both a far cry from the required %50. Nothing adds up.
"If they pay the two co-founders $150k instead of $100k each, that’s an incremental ~$120k (including additional taxes and benefits) in salaries over an entire year. That’s 10% of the raise. Hardly meaningful in the context of burn, but hugely impactful to the entrepreneurs."

I thought founders are encouraged to take minimum salary like $30K a year, I would consider $100K a year extremely nice.
Nice response, bad text color. The gray on bright white background really strains my eyes. Ouch.
Photos from Tsarnaev's capture leaked [somewhat graphic]
Do you need to "live without multitouch gestures"? I don't have a macbook, so I have never tested it, but the Archlinux wiki speaks of two drivers xf86-input-multitouch and a fork xf86-input-mtrack

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Macbook#Touchpad
You'd think.

I wonder sometimes if it is the whole 'agile architecture' thing where one person can decide "Oh we're going to change protocol buffers for this service, I'll just push that out ..." and the collateral damage is far and wide. I used to think people who complained about the poor IMAP implementation were just unwilling to go with the flow, and then had the flow take me down to where most flows go after they have come out of the faucet :-).

The next step in the evolution is 'personal' clouds I think. An Internet appliance that you own that you use for mail and media and what not. Back to the future-past but with a more resilient design. Perhaps that idea will bear fruit, it isn't like its getting better in the "internet clouds."
Daring or repeating history? Windows NT was ported to a host of platforms -- DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, and Itanium. None have gained substantial traction.

Had they been daring, the desktop would have been removed. Instead, Metro feels like a reincarnation of Apple's At Ease.

RT could have had a chance, but beyond the crayon colors, I believe the root cause was the bland, simple Metro interface. The textures, shadows and other elements of iOS 1 - 6 are engaging in a way that the flat interface is not. Side-by-side I'm always more compelled to pick up my iOS 6 phone over the iOS 7 phone. Or the flat-before-it-was-cool Blackberry.

When I visit a museum, people spend less time at simple modern art pieces. When I turn on pop radio, heavy layered beats dominate.

I might have bought an RT tablet if didn't feel like the Ikea of tablets.
It should be noted that almost all the people that claim to have eidetic memory are full of shit. People who claim that they have eidetic memory, when scientifically tested, are in fact shown to be either lying (simple fraud), using memory techniques (Chess masters can only memorize legal chess boards, they can't chunk random ones) or idiot savants who specialise in specific memory tricks (drawing a skyline/memorizing books).

> A number of people claim to have eidetic memory, but only two people have been tested and documented as having a memory that is truly photographic. Most people showing amazing memory abilities use mnemonic strategies.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_posse...

> An example of extraordinary memory abilities being ascribed to eidetic memory comes from the popular interpretations of Adriaan de Groot's classic experiments into the ability of chess Grandmasters to memorize complex positions of chess pieces on a chess board. Initially it was found that these experts could recall surprising amounts of information, far more than non-experts, suggesting eidetic skills. However, when the experts were presented with arrangements of chess pieces that could never occur in a game, their recall was no better than the non-experts, suggesting that they had developed an ability to organize certain types of information, rather than possessing innate eidetic ability.

Scientific skepticism about the existence of eidetic memory was fueled around 1970 by Charles Stromeyer who studied his future wife Elizabeth, who claimed that she could recall poetry written in a foreign language that she did not understand years after she had first seen the poem. She also could, apparently, recall random dot patterns with such fidelity as to combine two patterns into a stereoscopic image. She remains the only person documented to have passed such a test. However, the methodology of the testing procedures used is questionable (especially given the extraordinary nature of the claims being made) as is the fact that the researcher married his subject, and that the tests have never been repeated (Elizabeth has consistently refused to repeat them) raises further concerns.

> With the questionable exception of Elizabeth (discussed above), as of 2008, no one claiming to have long-term eidetic memory has been able to prove this in scientific tests. There are a number of individuals with extraordinary memory who have been labeled eidetickers, but many use mnemonics and other, non-eidetic memory enhancing exercises.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory
It's much more subtle than some people realize. There's not much need for a formal conspiracy when the incentives align themselves.
Just linked it with my Dropbox account. That is the best implementation of authorisation I've seen in any mobile app, period. Compared to the Facebook method (overlay a dialog that for all I know could just be made by the app itself), it's fantastic.
> I really can't understand why hackers, coders, etc are happy to sign up to the shit Apple are doing.

It's by far the OS I'm most productive in, and all the parts I care about (SSH) are open source.
It just redirects me to the US store, which then insists I can't make US "purchases" on my account.
"I love the power glove, it's so bad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AacoxHFYvZw
JS might look like Scheme (can't imagine what shall I smoke) only to those, who never managed to learn the later.)

But people like to repeat slogans without understanding. This is how everyone is calling Clojure a Lisp, for example, while it is a language of its own, which happen to use parenthesized syntax.)

It is not parenthesis that makes a language Lisp. It is not first class functions that makes it Scheme.) Lisp/Scheme is a set of conventions/features, and when some are broken and other are missing that means it is something else.
Yes, this is true. I have seen this on indian TV channels. Even indian govt doesn't go there. Somehow indian politicians are not able to bribe and corrupt the tribes. Well done tribes.
Sounds like they are coming up with testable predictions, so rock on! That's how it works in physics. Come up with a model, check the predictions, if the model is nuts but predicts well, you have no choice but to accept it until something better comes along. See General Relativity and it's bizarre time space bending and stretching. And Quantum Mechanics. All the biologists going nuts in this thread sound just like people who couldn't accept things can be in multiple states at once.
Data requests by UK authorities rose in 2012
This is absolutely insane. I don't even know how it got to the point that an article was necessary to explain this.
I asked on the author’s site as well, but I don’t understand the argument that JavaScript doesn’t have lexical scoping.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LexicalScoping
FWIW, in the case of Solar City he consistently emphasizes in his interviews that he has to basically "just show up at board meetings and hear the good news" and that most of the credit goes to the guys in charge there.
But anyway, I'm deeply impressed by this guy, especially since he is not only CEO but also Chief Designer at SpaceX and Product Architect at Tesla.
Fuzzy Window Switcher For Ubuntu
> Contrast to the iPhone, yet again (the original). It showed both incredible potential and was an excellent actual product.

This amuses me, because I was building an iPhone app in 2008 for my then-employer, so I had a company phone. I barely used it. When I moved teams, I returned it and didn't bother owning a smartphone until 2011 when the entire market had matured.

Sounds like a pretty apt comparison.
Aren't there already HUDs in limited / experimental use in such applications?
And he is saying that you have a society where leaders are misusing that information for personal gain rather than an alternative where with an abundance of information you have systems that make decisions for us and we skip "elected leaders"?

I am not naive, it is just early in the morning and I am asking.
And I wonder what percentage of the COBOL code on there was written for purely ironic purposes. (Like, COBOL ON COGS or whatnot.) Probably quite a bit -- nobody writes COBOL unless they have to, and what does get written is unlikely to be reusable.
I came to the comments to check just that right after reading "ideas that are making us collectively poorer instead of richer, or at least less richer than we could be". There's something seriously wrong with considering these two concepts as being semantically equivalent.
Possible, Beautiful, Fast
likewise for ubuntu/chrome
As far as I can see it's not in the Australian App Store.
Thank you for your reply. I was fixated on the equation (and xkcd image) from the original comment at the expense of overlooking "weird symbols that I don't even know how to type."
It's true because it's funny.
And some of my university teachers simply made the exams so difficult and long, the scores had little correlation with actual mastery of material (Jim Barby, I'm looking at your midterm).
It probably refers to the fact that variables by default are global. If you prefix them with var they're function scoped, but there's no way to make them local to the curly braces of an "if" statement.

In scheme, lexical scoping is easily accomplished through the let form, and it's pretty hard to make a variable global by mistake.

So yes it does have lexical scoping in the sense that function arguments are lexically scoped, but that's the only scoping environment, and you can't hide that fact behind macros like you could in scheme if it was needed.
I was mainly referencing Solar City which he doesn't really run.

A good example of someone who doesn't focus on one thing and is hugely successful is Richard Branson. Virgin Group has more than 400 companies.
Apparently it's not available I'm the UK store yet.
On one hand, it's true that Scheme has a lot of things JS doesn't, and vice versa; and the feel of the languages is very different. On the other hand, it's completely clueless to claim JS doesn't have lexical scoping. Only someone who didn't understand what the alternatives to lexical scoping were could claim that.
I'm gonna stop you there—this isn't true. Yes, the interfaces are completely different, but if you can sidestep that (command line tools, games go directly to OpenGL), the systems are very compatible. I've written a LOT of hairy code that is perfectly compatible and would be straightforward to emulate.
Facebook NEVER deletes anything, it hides it from view yes, but it is always on their servers and shared with whoever pays for it.
While I think your definition is apt, I think you vastly overestimate the number of people who grasp the phrase 'brute-force search.'
Jaron comes across as afraid of the future. His thesis seems to be that there are many possible horrible futures, and he imagines them to be more likely than "good" outcomes. And it doesn't read like he has any tools to reason about either one or the other. Hence the fear.

Bill Joy went through a similar phase with his infamous grey goo manifesto. I think he has come back somewhat from the brink on that.

I can appreciate the fear aspect of it. Greg Benford's TimeScape [1] scared the crap out me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape
> Apple has yet to sue anyone other than blatant and uninspired copyists, so I just don't care about the issues you feel so strongly about.

Where do we start? Lets see:

Apple v/s New York City over 'GreeNYC' logo : http://www.widespotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gree...

Apple v/s Victoria School of Business and Technology over this logo : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Victoria_...)

Apple v/s Woolworths Limited over this logo - http://www.topnews.in/files/Woolworths.gif

Apple v/s Amazon for the use of "App"

And let's not talk about the abuse of Rounded Corners (TM)(R)(C)
A Boys' Camp to Redefine Gender
Read this, tons of useful info here.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1a7jxd/i_am_hugh_howey...
as one of the comments from the article points out to google map: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=North+Sentinel+Island&ll=11.5...

looking at this island (looks huge!), am I the only one who feel so sick and tired of what the US government does to its people and our land, that I want to fill up my jetski and just head that way? Only if the tank was large enough...

Edit: zoom out on the island.. and think about this: somewhere under the green down there there are living people like me and you that do not know what internet is... or cell phones.. or ipads.. cable TV... anything..
Mongo???
Detroit files largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S history