skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK has several non-UK companies making cars here. According to those numbers (over different single years) UK factories made about 1.8m cars in 2007, as Nissan/etc make for Europe here. I imagine Australian factories only ship to the other parts of Oceania.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_the_Unit...
...maybe it was a joke.
http://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate -- This graph shows the total network hashing power, a.k.a. mining competition. As ASICs are finally being released/shipped on a noticeable scale, the network hash power is massively increasing and will probably increase 1-2 orders of magnitude more. Mining profits will most likely be driven to almost zero.

EDIT: another thing to consider is that the ASIC companies have had much trouble shipping on schedule, affecting ROI calculations
Theres a lot of great articles on Scaled Composites (both before and after they won the X prize) that describe the culture and what it was like to work there.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/space.html

They seem very different from the "NASA" mentality, and much younger and more startup-focused. Very (extremely!) small team, given what they accomplished.
Isn't that a manufactured phenomenon?
Instead of just regurgitating whatever is handed out to them, these publication ought to be more skeptical of the claims of a company like Lookout whose business is built on FUD, especially when they are spreading that FUD about the only platform that lets them make a living.

I'm not suggesting that there are no potential threats, what I'm suggesting is that they often omit the caveats and mitigating factors such as that the official Play Store doesn't host malware and even if something slipped in it wouldn't survive for long. The main concern would be about sideloaded apps and even then devices with Google Play Services installed (most of them) can still scan them: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/28/googles-malware-scan...

Also Android 4.2 introduced premium SMS protection:

More control of premium SMS - Android will provide a notification if an application attempts to send SMS to a short code that uses premium services which might cause additional charges. The user can choose whether to allow the application to send the message or block it.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/security/enhancement...
The government and the NSA are still run by Americans. Which means that those Americans are still at fault for breaking the constitution and feeling above the law.

There are many Americans that are still selling their souls to the NSA in order to provide for their families. More programmers are replacing Snowden and more are still being hired. Why? Because government is buying away our freedoms through greedy Americans and corporations. If you want to cut down the NSA spying, the recipe is very simple: stop taking the money and talent from the government.
If your employer is constantly submitting RFPs to the government, quit.
If you get excited that your company has any "big contracts" with the government, quit.

Take away the talent and end the greed for the easy government money. The choice is, as it always has been, our choice.
In my experience, when someone reeks, it's usually because they don't bathe daily or they don't wash their clothes enough.

Fresh sweat on a recently showered body generally does not smell bad. A guy who applies Right Guard for three days instead of showering does. (Deodorant is odorant anyway.)
There is another thing to consider:

Adding security to a system imposes costs on the use, maintenance, and support of those systems. Can you imagine the scale issues associated with maintaining PKI over the millions of devices deployed? How about hundreds of millions?

TPM is present in many, many laptops yet most IT departments leave it un-configured. Why? Because when you replace the hard drive and it changes the boot vector parameters, the machine will no longer boot and you have to work inside the auth mechanisms of the TPM infrastructure do to simple hard drive replacements. (nb: I'm not an IT guy so I might be a bit off here, but you get the gist)

So the reasons for NOT including security are pretty damn big compared to the risk. As security guys are fond of saying: "If I can get physical access to your machine, all bets are off." Keyloggers, evil maid BIOS, HID attacks, firmware attacks on peripherals, etc are all possible ways to compromise a device. If you're wondering how STUXNET got into an air-gapped security facility in Iran, I'd bet that a method like this was the prime candidate. That's how I'd do it.
I said "typical". Most desktop and server computers do not have or do not fully enable Secure Boot (or else you would not be able to plug in a random 5-year old NIC whose firmware is not signed).
So all of your datacenters are in the U.S. and in Holland? State surveillance in the Netherlands is even worse than in the U.S. [1]

[1] http://www.bit-byters.net/2009/11/netherlands-still-1-in-pho...
The full version of what they were found to have done wrong is at: http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f299200/299275.pdf

TL;DR version, the court found "that the Publisher Defendants conspired with each other to eliminate retail price competition in order to raise e-book prices, and that Apple played a central role in facilitating and executing that conspiracy."
An HN to nntp scraper would be awesome.
Trance, specifically the weekly "A State of Trance" hosted/mixed by Armin Van Buren.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_State_of_Trance

There are like 600 episodes, each is a 2 hour mix. Great to just turn one on and not fidget around with the next track.

Another one of my favorites is Digitally Imported, di.fm
Basically a bunch of different electronic genre stations.
While I will freely admit many parts of this industry, and many of the people hailed in heroes within it, are basically bogus "right place, right time" cases who are just as blockheaded as the MBAs in suits that came before them, the comments here can be as valid as the articles.

Especially since many of the participants in this forum are significant participants in the industry.
These statements are not in conflict. The first one is helping readers in the U.S. recognize what the jargon "SMS shortcodes" refers to.

The second one is letting the reader know that they do not need to be wary of every smartcode they see.
Whomever invented deodorant must have thought someone smelled bad.
Note that even denials, e.g., "I have no idea of what you're talking about", can result in charges, if they're provably false (e.g., there's a record you do know what they're talking about -- email, twitter, writings, conversations, etc.). These typically lead to various "obstruction" charges.

Simply refuse to comment.
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It would seem that those with the ability to address this issue are close to those who benefit from the lack of understanding.
i think the punishment fits the crime. Severe punishment should be expected for trying to steal from their customers.
Humans also grow hair a certain way. Do you similarly agree that shaving razors are illogical?

No, but just about every hipster in Allston-Brighton does. Walk into any indie record shop in the Boston area and there'll be at least one 20-year-old with a beard to make Santa jealous.
If lacking something carbonated and sugary was a problem that sodas solved, then not smelling like a horse was a problem cleaning products solved.

Put another way: If "not smelling like a horse" was not a legitimate problem because marketers created it, then "not having something sugary and carbonated" was similarly not a legitimate problem, because marketers created it.
Amazon used to buy all their eBooks on the wholesale model; the same one used for print books. They would buy the books from the publisher at a fixed price (say $10 each), and then sell them at whatever price they wanted. Amazon often sold the books at/below cost to get people to buy Kindles.

So when Apple decided to start the iBook store, all the publishers decided to use that as an opportunity to band together and force Amazon to use the agency model, which is how Apple sells apps (publishers set the price, Apple gets a cut).

The had the effect of causing book prices to go up (because, again, Amazon often sold at or below cost). Because Apple was the new player whose contracts caused this, they got in trouble.

Many people find this quite questionable. Prices will go up with this settlement because publishers get more control. Amazon had a de facto monopoly, which Apple actually broke up. Also, this wasn't Apple's idea, it was the publishers.

Of course, Apple was more than happy to take advantage of the situation, so they weren't exactly innocent.

It's a really a strange case.
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Thinkpads have supported a second battery in the UltraBay for a long time, as well.
I don't think it prevents them from recontracting immediately with the publishers, just they can't get most favored nation.

"entering new e-book distribution deals which would free it from having to compete on price"
I think Manning's case is definitely a better example for CFAA reform than Swartz's or Weev's. With Swartz, MIT intended to kick him off the network. With Weev, AT&T intended, poorly, to keep that data secret. But with Manning, there was no attempt o keep that data from Manning. He had access to it.
Armed agents raid animal shelter for baby deer
If hackers aren't receptive to an argument that the description of a system is not necessarily how the system functions, there's no way we're not absolutely fucked.
Everyone thought water tasted like the most delicious fruit imaginable, the nectar of the gods, until some cynical profiteer busybody came around and told them it was plain.

Now we all believe it tastes plain because we've been drinking Coke for all our lives.

I don't believe a word I just said, but a lot of people apparently will.
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I don't wear it just to smell good, I wear modern anti-perspirant because I'd rather not have sweat stains when I arrive at work if possible. So marketers, thank you. You've made my life better.
I may have been more inclined to use this, if it did have the feature to read the comments!!
More often than not, I go through the comments first just to gauge the quality of the article and only if I am satisfied do I actually go read the article. That's why I don't like using desktop rss tickers for HN.
Yeah, everyday we collect more data.

About a month ago we added Facebook talking about data, and will start to light that up in the product. Twitter mentions is on our radar too.

We love the way Google trends shows breaking news annotations, and have already explored that a bit. You just can't see it in the static screen shots, since it's a hover behavior.
T-Mobile prepaid plans are great in that regard. I only pay the New York sales tax on top of the quoted price (8.875% or something).
My parents were on AT&T and they were paying close to $15 in mysterious fees + taxes per line, for dumbphone lines without data plans. I convinced them to move to T-Mobile prepaid, seems to work well so far.
This is my understanding of the situation:

Traditionally, book publishers sell to stores at a wholesale price. Stores then mark up the price a bit and sell it to the end consumers.

Amazon then started selling books for prices below the wholesale price, deliberately taking a loss.

The publishers got scared that this would destroy all non-Amazon channels, giving Amazon inordinate power over them.

So they got together with Apple and set up a scheme where the publishers would all use the "agent" model. Instead of selling the books to Apple for a fixed wholesale price, they would set the prices however they liked, and Apple would take a cut of 30%.

The publishers would then all refuse to sell to Amazon unless Amazon switched to the agent model.

That, however, is pretty straight-forward collusion and against the law.
I usually listen some post-rock such as GYBE!
The "natural human body" wasn't meant to have clothes on, or spend all day indoors in close quarters with other humans.

When you take humans out of their natural environment, can you really argue that features of the human body are "natural" and thus in some way inviolable?

Garbage in New York... attracts pests. Human body odor does not.

Good to know. Flies must be attracted to something other than body odor & sweat then. Perhaps... body heat?
I'll double-check my math, but suspect my numbers are closer to the truth.

Keep in mind that you're also limited by heat-engine efficiencies. I need to double-check if steam turbines are governed by Carnot cycle (35% max efficiency) or others, but that's another factor to keep in mind.

And yes, the calorie/kilocalorie distinction is important ;-)
> Seems a weird solution, given they aren't the gorilla in the ebook market

While some of the remedies are related to the market that was affected by the illegal actions they were found to have engaged in, the remedies as a whole aren't limited to the ebook market, and it seems more concerned with Apple using its mobile position and related retail platforms to facilitate similar publisher schemes in other markets to the one it engaged in in the e-book market.

Which, IMO, is what you'd expect of a company that wasn't found to be leveraging a monopoly or otherwise abusing power as a dominant player in one market, but instead was found to have used a significant-but-not-necessarily unique position in one market to provide a pivotal role in a price-fixing conspiracy among producers in another market.
At the moment, those $15 (or so) units are 1.7 (or whatever it was) GHash/sec. They integrate a bunch of them to get to 400.

In the long term, the mining rigs should barely be paying for the electricity required to operate them.
>Probably more accurate title: Americans didn't realize they smelled bad until marketers pointed out otherwise

Smell is a sense. If you "don't realize it", it might as well not exist.

>If you've ever been to a part of the world where deodorant use is less common, you know its not a marketing-manufactured problem.

Nope -- that only holds were people don't bathe frequently.
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That's pretty much my stance.

And for some countries,say, India, which has tremendous issues with trash and a severe energy shortage, this might be useful. If the logistics, pollution, and wastestream segregation issues can be worked out.
There wouldn't be any more coins entering the market then there normally would. 1 new block every 10 minutes, doesn't matter how much hashing power there is. You are assuming people would dump them immediately, which I don't necessarily think is fair.
"Rockmelt was designed for people who are too drunk to be on Facebook to make sense of the Internet"

Or maybe this:

"Rockmelt was designed for people who want Buzzfeed but don't like reading so much."
I love the flexibility of CHAP links' Timeline.
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>What makes you think the smell of sweating bodies can't be hardwired to smell unpleasant?

The fact that people forgot about it and get used to it pronto, as you already admitted above.
My problem isn't necessarily with what's happening, it's the secretiveness surrounding it, and the "trust us" attitude that pervades the organization. That is not acceptable. As someone shouted, "how are we supposed to trust you if we don't even know what you're doing?"
Regarding the nosql, RavenDb is awesome in my experience, using it for a passive income project that does ok. It's not prohibitively expensive to license even for me.
This seems to be a real problem with you, you have very little ability to empathize, put yourself in other peoples' shoes, or imagine anyone's situation other than your own as the "default" or right one.

It's a matter of perspective. Do you think it's really a problem for a bunch of people that all smell alike, that are all used to the smell, to not care? They probably think you have the problem for needing to pay people to artificially make yourself smell better. Especially since it's basically just a self-enforced social contract. "I don't want to smell bad, because it's a taboo and everyone else will make me feel bad".

Your snotty reply to yourself only emphasizes my point.
This is both awful, somehow unsurprising, and COBOL is a piss poor scapegoat.

I've talked on here in the past about how crazy it is that some of my customers had huge financial systems that were written in COBOL, quietly still plugging away.

The most important of which is a system which processes billions of dollars of transactions a day, and has done so since the early 70's (when they purchased the what was then off-the-shelf software). You can imagine what a maintenance nightmare it must be (both because it's old, very important, and written in a programming language which predates the cotton gin).

Assuming that they can't just rewrite the system (which might be a reality), they can certainly sit down a bunch of developers and have them learn COBOL. COBOL isn't even a particularly difficult language, we were writing pretty decently-sized programs after a few months in high school (and if the system is that old, it's probably not even using any fancy language features).

If only the military had some means by which they could take people without past exposure to some skillset and train them to be competent at that skillset. Maybe part of that training could involve having to climb over a wall, or some sort of rope course.
I took this a while back and I really liked it. Definitely a good introduction, and even though I was using it through the (deprecated?) TechCrunch venue Mattan was always very prompt with replies to questions I had about the subject matter. While RTFM is always a good and sometimes painful exercise, I did enjoy OMR.
but not my problem...
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That one is hard to call. Horrifying body odor is much more unbearable from the point of view of the senses; overpowering cologne on the other hand makes me feel like I can't breathe. Two different experiences.
Say I walked into Intel, downloaded tons of information about their fab technology, and walked out with it on a USB key. Does whether I call that "corporate espionage" depend on whether I hand that USB key over to AMD or ArsTechnica?
This article might disagree with you:

Yahoo Keeps Buying Startups That Don't Make Their Own Apps
http://readwrite.com/2013/07/03/yahoo-qwiki-lawsuit-chaotic-...
> Smell is a sense. If you "don't realize it", it might as well not exist.

I would put that differently: "bad" is subjective -- if you don't notice/think that a smell is bad, then it isn't bad, whether the smell exists or not.
Those firms weren't injured by Apple's participation in a conspiracy (that we know about).
Could not agree more. Best of luck to the team, and I hope each finds happiness in their next ventures.

To pile on with the challenges of using these types of metrics to describe the worthiness of a candidate, see a comment from more than a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804389

Usually the best metrics to throw on a dashboard are the hardest to measure, and the easiest to measure (# tweets, # of github commits, # LOC, etc) have the weakest correlation with substance. I believe it's because the easiest to measure are the easiest to game.
Here you said "knee jerk" where you meant to say "logically principled and wise". Also "common sense" would work in certain circles.

Secure boot isn't a technical solution to a soft/firmware update problem. It's a control mechanism to solve a management problem. Crazy idea, don't put the interface that has access to firmware on the standard interface. Use its own interface and allow motherboard manufacturers to support it for enterprise/datacenter geared systems.
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There are "mining bonds" that are essentially cloud Bitcoin mining. As you said, they tend to not be worth buying. One exception is ASICMiner which has paid very nice dividends to their shareholders.

It's not quite as simple as selling money, since the amount of money that the box will print depends on various factors like the difficulty, exchange rate, and delivery date. So it's really a question of whether the customer's risk analysis is better than the vendor's (which is doubtful given the information asymmetry; see also Goldman Sachs). And the delivery date is definitely not guaranteed; most vendors are shipping late.
With this you can do the equivalent of AI-box. Moreover, using a screen you could be able to - among other things - induce epileptic seizure in some people, and you could definitely start broadcasting radio transmissions (as demonstrated with http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/, which turns a CRT screen into AM radio playing arbitrary MP3s). I'll leave it to your imagination what an AI could do with that.

Basically you need to assume that (superhuman) AI will utilize any available side channel to further its goals. And there's a lot it could do with even a simplest of them. The lesson of today's technology that many miss is that you can do pretty much everything and every system can be exploited in thousands of more or less elaborate ways. We don't see them often because there is usually an easy and cheap method we stick to. We don't see "pretty much everything" being done, because it's usually too expensive to care. But if someone needs it, it can be done.

See also: side-channel attacks, hacker-style practical jokes.
But human body odor may be indicative of physiological problems, and being aware of your own odor can give you insight into what's going on under the skin.
I think know what they're doing. I think they have a good chance of succeeding.
>doesnt it say something about us all?

That we're utilitarian in nature? This isn't exactly Nobel-prize winning stuff.

The idea that we collect money and this is greedy or inherently bad is a highly personal view. Besides, what about Bill Gates and others who are donating their fortunes to do EXACTLY what you two ask?

You're also ignoring the fact that "getting richer" is not the enemy of "doing good."
Indeed. That gives new emphasis to the notion of regulatory capture, wherein the regulatory agency has a vested interest in the continued success of its regulated clients. In this scenario, in a manner of speaking, the agency is seeking to be "captured," so that it can continue to leech lifeblood from the host.
Nitpicker point: It's been a while since I used a CC, but used to a lot, and the user stands pretty close to the cards as they read them (specially for the lower drawers). A drone might have a chance, but not a FIB-cam.