skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is silly coming from a company whose trusted computing base was nearly eaten by China. If any company needs the tightest possible OODA loop w.r.t. cyber-threats, it is Google.

There has been a lot of utter horseshit about how the NSA's activities will make Europeans distrust American cloud computing. Well the NSA is nothing compared to the Communist Party espionage organizations.
The main problem I'm having with the bootstrap flat design is how to difference between button and (e.g.) labels/badges.
In the previous version (2.x..) it was pretty clear for the user that a button was a button...
Kim Dotcom speaks at anti-spy protest in New Zealand. Talks Privacy and Snowden.
Multiple device synchronization gives redundancy and backup. Plus the ability to use multiple devices simultaneously.
I still remember seeing this:
http://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2770327&cid=39598...
It's complicated, and quickly gets outside of my knowledge (I was only mildly involved in hospital stuff), but one big problem is, the same bacteria can be beneficial or lots of trouble depending on where it is, and you may be reintroducing exactly the same thing you just killed (think E.Coli).
Wrk - a HTTP benchmarking tool
You'd have to start by simplifying the legal code. Part of the reason that these long legal documents are necessary is the huge variety of theories of liability that companies are exposed to. If you want to avoid long disclaimers, you also have to remove the things companies need to disclaim to avoid huge legal expenses.
Again, bring your reproducible facts. You're speaking out of faith. The test of knowledge is the experiment (Feynman), and yes you can prove evolution through experiments.
I don't remember the exact way it works on Core 2, but generally a NOP is thrown out very early in the pipeline. So it won't usually have an effect on the execution order of other instructions. But a MOV has source operands (address), and produces an output value. It'll sit in the issue queues until its inputs are available, and in doing so it might cause some other instructions to execute in a different order. If that pushes two other dependent instructions closer together, that might avoid a stall.

As I said, I'm just guessing. But Core 2 has several architectural quirks that can make it sensitive to things like this. Most are things where a useless instruction would not affect things (each reading a 32 bit register after writing the lower 16 bits of it), but this one is such that a useless instruction could trigger or avoid it.

Could also be something more mundane, like the load kicking off the prefetcher for a value that's later needed. As I said, I'm throwing out ideas. Someone needs to test.
First of all, the UI is not the same when in phone mode and desktop mode. In desktop mode it runs traditional Unity and in mobile mode it runs Ubuntu Touch, a gesture based UI that only looks similar to Unity. I spent some time on a BlackBerry 10, and I loved it. Gesture based UIs are the future for smartphones.

I'm willing to cut Ubuntu some slack on Unity and Mir. Despite all the haters, the latest Unity is actually turning out to be a decent UI. For those of us on 16:9 monitors, a vertical taskbar was the right choice. Vertical taskbars were broken for over 10 years GNOME[1], so I can understand Shuttleworths frustration. I also love the search bar lense UI.

The mistake they made was shipping Unity half-baked. Yes, it can get unresponsive on low-end hardware. But much of this comes from poor 3D driver support under Linux, and bloated, slow, and outdated X[2] and compiz. The sooner those two die, the sooner we can have a responsive modern 3D accelerated compositing window managers under Linux.

[1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86382

[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
The ordinary state of consciousness is definitely the most useful one, subject to a certain amount of path-dependency. But equally the fact that your ordinary routine of eating, sleeping, going to work etc. is the most useful one doesn't mean that fasting, staying up all night, or taking a vacation are lacking in value. You were dead right with your other comment about how a Picasso picture is an interpretation of reality rather than a depiction of it, while recognizing that we can learn a lot from considering other interpretations.

You should read a book called The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind by Julian Jaynes, I think you'd like it a good deal.
I find this confusing. Do brick-and-mortar laundromats typically have <24hr turnarounds?
Terms and Conditions: A movie about privacy policies you’ll want to watch
I mean, you are largely re-iterating my argument, it just sounds like you are taking issue with my use of the word "shitty." I am pretty sure Samsung is aware of this stuff, but as you say they choose not to address it (or are unable to, or whatever.) The difference is that if the iPhone 5S for example was choppy when exiting out of apps, Apple would just not ship it, even if they think a lot of people would not notice.

There is still such a thing as craftsmanship. When building a dresser, a craftsman ensures the back of the dresser looks as clean and elegant as the front, despite the fact that people will generally never see the back. A corporation churning out dressers as cheap as it can will just line the back with particle board. In furniture, where things generally don't change, this is a sound strategy, but in technology, building a company churning out garbage (relatively speaking) I think tends to catch up to you since you won't attract craftsmen to help create the next big thing.

If it wasn't obvious already, I'm an Apple shareholder, and I am not worried about Samsung. Samsung has made it very clear over and over that there is very little element of craftsmanship in their corporate culture, from the output of their work (like laggy animations and stock installs reminiscent of Windows 98 crapware) and the Onion-seque internal slide decks where they robotically ripped off every element of the iPhone they legally could, likely without asking themselves why those things were designed the way they were. I'm far more worried about Google, who have shown that they both can and want to get better at design, and have a unparalleled capability to build services to power well-designed products. And Microsoft has shown they have the will to change, and are swinging the bat, even though they haven't hit the ball yet.

Comparatively speaking Samsung is kind of a joke and when a new paradigm comes along (wearables, a dramatic shift in smartphones, etc) unless they can xerox their way to keeping up they will be left behind. They caught this particular wave perfectly, and are leveraging a very unique situation (Google being a free remote engineering department) to their advantage. I'm pretty sure the cat is out of the bag and Google is going to ensure Samsung is not riding their coattails to profits when the next wave hits.
While I would normally agree with you, the cited supreme case above stated that: However, the Court stopped short of allowing all aerial inspections of private property, noting that it was "of obvious importance" that a private citizen could have legally flown in the same airspace. Any member of the public could legally have been flying over Riley's property in a helicopter at the altitude of 400 feet and could have observed Riley's greenhouse. The police officer did no more.

As such, the Police can't eat and keep cake in this case, except if congress changes the law. The supreme court case is quite clear.
Yeah, there is something that is regularly overlooked about developing antibiotics: new ones end up on a shelf as the new last resort. If you've got a timeframe (imposed by patent lifetimes) in which you have to recoup your investment, that is a shitty situation for a pharma company to put itself in. "It's for the public good" is not the kind of due dilligence many shareholders like...
For detailed discussion of this comic, see the following 51000 comment thread on the XKCD fora:

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=101043
It would be cool if the game commited your code to a github repo every level.

This way you could see your own progress, and see what solutions other came up with without bugging them.
Hands-on with the Leap Motion Controller: Cool, but frustrating as hell
> So when it does happen (and it will eventually happen) we're prepared not to lose our country

If it does happen, most likely it will be caused by the US itself. Many threats that exist today are largely created by the US short-sighted foreign policy or even worse - blatant disregard for any nation, but themselves.
I love how not only do you sign for something that you didn't read. But they can then change the privacy policy without sending you a new copy to agree to.

Seems a bit odd.
Remove the tedium from creating, developing, and publishing repos
Right now if I send my Grandmother a signed email with s/mime she will see a little notice in her email client that says the message is signed and valid. If I send her an email with a PGP signature it will not.

This is because just like her browser the CA is trusted by her OS.
DO NOT WALK AROUND OUTSIDE while on LSD! That's dangerous and disrespectful to everyone else.

I don't know if there's a Acid uprising in St. Louis but there have been an increase in incidences of young men tripping while out in public. One of them scared the hell out of my mom, then stripped naked and ran around yelling "I love LSD" while the police ran after him. The other almost got hit as he walked in and out of traffic. I get they want to experiment but the combination of being a male (doing risky stupid shit) and being young (thinking you're invincible) can have deadly consequences.

Please trip at home. Edit: OR at your friend's house who lives on a nice open flat farm.
I suppose we pretty much all agree that a general "too much of power" level was reached a while ago, in Washington. Of course, we could go more into detail regarding what and how exactly, but the main thing seems to be:

All this centralized and money-based power has caused too much corruption in the general system.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/2henryvi/2henryvi.4.2.html
Do you complain that your tablet interface is the same as your phone (assuming you've got ios/ios, android/andriod, other/other)?

These are very different devices, and yet they use the same interface, meaning that you don't think about what you want to do, you just do it.

For MOST people, that same mentality can scale upto their desktop, onto their television, etc. etc.
I think you're reading too much into that choice. I believe he chose Lincoln the same reason that Romney said that "Modern Family" is his favorite T.V. show: They both rank #1 in polls.
worked with Robert closely in the past, who is a real geek and a kind and nice person to work with, I'm so happy to see this coming along.
The SCP Foundation
IANAL but I'm responsible for HIPAA compliance in my startup:

Assuming this is a standard private practice, this office has several violations of 45 CFR §164.520(a)(b)(c), assuming that he was also not provided this privacy statement within 30 days with a reason for why it was not provided on the first visit.

This makes them liable for $50,000 in fines per failure to a max of $1.5 mm (this would be a clear cut case of reckless indifference.) The DHHS OCR is always looking for some head to serve on a platter to justify themselves as well.

His amendment to the form is damning evidence and that receptionist should be fired, there is no excuse for basic HIPAA noncompliance in 2011 (8 years after the fact).

Edit: What some people don't seem to understand is that signing the privacy practices notice (the form in question here) does not mean you agree to the terms and conditions outlined. You only sign that you have received them. Additionally, whether you sign the form or not it applies to you, and whatever that form states HIPAA clearly outlines what powers the covered entity (the doctor in this case) has over your information.
True, you did say "on the matter", and I did overreach, but my point is still strong: You provided none, and just made the assumption that they 'all', 'them' being an implied multitude, agree with you.

As for your prime (and only) example of u-turn accidents, right there in the text it says that u-turn accidents are so rare, they had to add in left-turns in order for it to be analysable.

In addition to that, you've provided a statistic on 'making u-turns', not 'breaking traffic laws', which was your original complaint. The segment you've bookmarked doesn't talk about how legal the turns taken were.

it is quite possible to notice illegal traffic maneuvers with your eyes.

Your argument counters itself. On the one hand you say you can't see illegal manoeuvres, so they're always downright dangerous if not deadly, and on the other hand you say that any such manoeuvre is visible and obvious.
This looks like a viable research route? New pathway for eliminating bacteria thats viral instead of antibiotic (fungal?) based:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120724104640.ht...

Can anyone speak to the validity or promise of such research?
I have to admit I kind of like that it doesn't. All games have artificial constraints and I feel like keeping you from inspecting too much of the internal state is a reasonable one for this.
Not sure I completely understand this - what's the position in the States, can incorporated entities advertise the sale of stock to the public?

In the UK that's basically the distinction between a limited company and public limited company (PLC).

Gods help anyone who tried to find a way to sell stock in a limited company to the general public. Prison would beckon, I suspect.
Craigslist, it was a local who was seeking a developer for a porn website. Worked part time for a few weeks, paid ok initially. However he screwed me (figuratively) for a few thousand dollars for the last installment.

It was part-time and I didnot care, however I got to see a live porno (DP) series in San Fernando valley.
Kind of like a Zynga game. At a certain point, you can't continue unless you spam your friends.
> and I see no downside.

Is this satire or have you not thought this through?
This is brilliant. It's not even a "logic puzzle" as much as it is an engineering feat.

And it's not like software engineering, where you're defining the nature of the system as a whole, and then instantiating it, but more like a physical engineering discipline, in which you're juxtaposing already-existing materials against each other such that their pre-existing properties interact with each other to produce the behavior you want.
select, copy, paste, share (copyright violation), the end.

It's kind of not OK to distribute other people's work when they don't want you to.
Even if there isn't one currently, windows exposes an interface to the screen through gdi+ which can be used in a C++ program, for example.
This is factually incorrect.

Under 45 CFR §164.520(c)(2)(iv) any changes must be distributed to patients within 60 days. Additionally unlike most other agreements, for HIPAA notices of privacy practices you do not sign that you agree to the terms rather that you have seen the terms.
Well either you trust the CA system or you don't. If you do then receiving a s/mime signature, that your OS thinks is valid because of the root certificates that it accepts, then you can trust it "transparently".

If you don't trust the CA system, well then the web is a very scary place for you because it's all built on that and email is probably the least of your concerns.

The CAs are generally not "a random list", but rather a publicly accepted and accredited CA. Just like your https cert.
I use honey along with something called the specific-carbohydrate diet to control (but not eradicate) an infection in my gut.

Certain honeys -- and not particularly the more expensive ones -- are much more antibacterial in this regard than others.
WHY ARE SIMPLE THINGS NOT OBVIOUS LIKE THEY ARE ON IOS

Coming from Android, I have exactly the same response when moving to iOS. 'Why is there no back button? Why is all the functionality shoehorned into one button? Oh, you have to press the button for certain amounts of time for different features? Where's the discoverability?".

You seem to be complaining much more about unfamiliarity with workflow than real issues.

In my experience, people are drawn to Android don't care much about user experience and instead want larger screens and tons of features.

Did you honestly just say that a larger screen doesn't have anything to do with the user experience?
I like to think of it from a bit of a environmentally friendly perspective (but there are massive benefits to convenience as well).

How often do you need/want to upgrade your PC/Phone/Tablet? Those probably have a fairly regular cycle.

What about your TV? Monitor? Keyboard? Other I/O devices (ignoring that we've had a resurgence in monitor technology in the last few years). These things don't have as consistent an upgrade path.

If rather than upgrading your PC AND phone AND tablet on a 18 month - 3 year cycle, you just upgraded one small device every 24 months. You still use the same monitor and keyboard, your tablet screen (which I suspect the tablet will become little less than a touch screen with built in camera and I/O to run the OS) and other devices. You're saving quite a bit in resources. One 'local' drive that you carry with you, and a bunch of cloud storage, all your apps across all your devices, no logging into a service on device X only to find that when you go to device Y you have to login again, but you've forgotten your password so you reset your password which means that you're not logged out on device X. Etc. etc.etc. there is value.
ClassMint: Interactive Study Notes
Zooming helped me as well, it allows you to fill more of your vision which I find helps.
I guess you never took mushrooms yourself.

Nearly everybody has the urge to go outside, to walk miles, and to fresh air on a trip. So my advise, take a trip where its save to go outside. Do not take a trip in a big city, but somewhere in nature.
Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

The title is slightly misleading as I actually believe that every person should... and here's my story why.

Liked your essay, but I think you should go ahead and change your title. Psychedelics can make you a better entrepreneur, or a better artist, or (insert role here), but in the sense that becoming a more rounded, experienced and thoughtful person will enhance your professional activities. Your specific profession is orthogonal to your scope for personal development.

Nobody should take mushrooms with the goal of enjoying more business success - a compartmentalized approach as implicitly (albeit unintentionally) suggested by your title is likely to be counter-productive when the walls of one's mental compartments start leaking. I knew a fellow who stared at a glass of orange juice during a trip with such intensity that he felt he had become one with it.* He got very upset when someone else picked it up and drank the juice.

* in the sense that Van Gogh once painted a vase of sunflowers with such intensity that he became one with it. What your mind chooses to focus its attention on is not a question of value.
One should always be prepared for a bad trip. They do happen and were a known risk often discussed back in the early days. A bad trip can be pretty terrible and there really isn't anyway to stop it short of going to the emergency room for a shot of Thorazine. Many people have had them and chalk it up to a bad setting or a bad mood and then go on to enjoy good trips, but if you don't think you could handle one (One friend described hers and riding a roller coaster through mud for 8 hours) then I wouldn't recommend it. Also, if there is a history of mental illness in your family tree then I would be especially cautious. I did have a friend lose it and end up in the psyche ward for two weeks, but I'm sure it was a latent condition that got triggered.

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_LSD_Bad_Trips.sht...
> This would greatly reduce the amount of stupid long documents, and I see no downside.

But it wouldn't reduce the number of documents that are long because they are documenting something very complex.

The privacy statement may be 3,000 pages because the author(s) were (collectively) incompetent, or because medical privacy is a highly complex field that has a lot of gotchas, and therefore requires a lot of legal logic to cover it all.
The 5 essential rules of SaaS email integration
While I don't suggest this to be universal, I think you'll find that the majority of freelancers don't have first clients, they have first favors: a buddy who needs a website, an old acquaintance from high school or college who remembers you being the one who knew what RAM was an acronym for, etc.

I'd say, broadly, there are two types of early freelancing requests:

1. The prospective client knows exactly what the finished product needs to be. He does not, on the other hand, know what technology is necessary or how long/expensive it will be. (These are the clients who say sentences like "Hey, how much would it cost per month to have a web page?"). These are typical first clients, who aren't quite aware of the gulf between "how much effort it is to set up a five-page Wordpress" and "how much value a five-page Wordpress brings to a small services firm," and tend to think of technology as an investment.

2. The prospective client who has read an article or a book about something like SEO or social media or something like that and doesn't really know what it entails but feels as though they need it. These people generally think of technology as a cost -- or, at the very least, they don't know exactly what they'd be investing in.

To answer the question: I got my first client way back in tenth grade by being referred by a non-profit for which I had set up a Wordpress account; I got in touch with the non-profit through my high school's web design club; I heard about the web design club through one of my buddies in Algebra II.
"We do overuse (and mis-use) antibiotics, but as long as we use them at all, bacteria will have an evolutionary pressure to adapt to their presence."

Not necessarily a decisive pressure however. For bacteria which primarily "prey" on human beings this would be true. For bacteria which are primarily endemic to the environment, the loss of fitness involved in antibiotic vulnerability is something of a drop in the bucket. Remember this resistance has a cost in physiological adaptation too. These bacteria, like Staph, that might be "happy" to subside to resisting the common chemicals in a barnyard - unless we human produce an environment where tolerating antibiotic gives the organism a natural bridge to spread through - gigantic hospitals with filled with humans pumped with antibiotics or huge feed lots filled with similarly pumped animals "come to mind".
Congratulations Summer Interns of 2013
Phil Fish ragequits on the entire gaming community; takes Fez II down with him
Feature request: After you've beaten it once let you go through all levels with the same code. Right now it doesn't let you use the features it hasn't told you about.
The ambition of this project is just amazing. I wonder how close they are to pulling it off.