skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the personal financial risks detailed (quite well) in the comments below, there's also the PITA factor. Homeownership is a Pain In The Ass. Especially if you live in a "shared community," such as a condo building in SF, with a strong-willed HOA. Especially if you live in a home or building with any sort of construction issues -- most of which will reveal themselves, by Murphy's Law, the week after you lift contingencies and close escrow. Especially if you are the least bit neurotic about home prices, the state of the market, and the preservation of your principal (to say nothing of positive ROI).

Buying is not for the faint of heart, the easily stressed, or anyone who's even slightly uncertain about the direction of the next 5-10 years of his life.

Some people just don't want the headache. And you don't know how big a headache it really is until you've taken the plunge. I know more than a few former homeowners who have sworn they'll never buy again, regardless of whether it makes financial sense.
Depends. The 4th amendment protects people, not places.
For your house?
Probably
For your yard?
Probably not, but it depends what part of the yard.

Cameras arranged on poles?
I'm too lazy to look up cases.
See Kyllo and friends.

The reason it's divorced from "freedom from observation" is because the constitution does not guarantee you a freedom from observation, only a freedom from search.
These are not the same.

As one of the cases says, "the police are not required to shield their eyes as they pass homes if they do not have probable cause"
The Fed is not run by private interests. What are you talking about?
Is the unmanned aspect the main difference here? Police have long used both planes and helicopters, and warrants aren't typically required in those cases.
Antibiotic resistance: The last resort
Expandable code blocks in simple CSS3
The "new" model is just syntactic sugar over the "old" TPL, so you're wrong anyway ;-)
Just out of interest, how would you propose a computer solve number 2?

Or 4?

Or 9?
Yes, I think GiveWell is the gold standard for choosing where to give.
Instead of conditioning improvement in the developing world on the largesse of billionaires, we should identify the structural phenomenon that are retarding quality of life there and invent new solutions that target those phenomenon directly. Instead of buying condoms and bottled water for Haiti, we should fix Haiti's government and economy.
http://wepay.com

I think they're designed specifically for this.
Wikipedia:

> Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch' "; it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts".

I don't see how software changes this. Police have been concentrating their patrol time (and hence stop frequency) on high-crime areas since time immemorial. This is just a more accurate tool for that. Actual detainment will still require justification based on the particular circumstances and actions by the individual, just like they always have.
This answer sums up my feelings best:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7479276/what-is-the-main-...

It's good for C#, but still a language wart that could be built-in. I like that Go only has one set of APIs for everything, not the sync way and the async way.

It's sad that C#, which started out as a fixed-up Java, is now growing its own warts.

Of course, Go's not perfect either.
I had to do a version of this for myself a few weeks back in conjunction with datatables. We actually also use form elements in the table as well, which I had to handle as special cases. We'd then send the JSON back to the server, which would generate an Excel file.

Why not just send back to the server instead? First, sending the JSON back turned out to be faster than rerunning the query. Second, datatables has a full text search option which made things simpler for our case.

(Datatables has an export plugin, but it uses flash and only generates thinly-veiled CSV.)

So there's a use case for something like this.
"Instrumentalities like the national banks or the federal reserve banks, in which there are private interests, are not departments of the government. They are private corporations in which the government has an interest."

Justice Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court, 1928

http://openjurist.org/275/us/415
Ubuntu: One OS, one interface, all devices
To be fair, they have devoted a top level navigation link to their page of mistakes. It seems like they try very hard to be transparent these days, even going so far as to publish notes on conversations with charities.

But that was a shameful and embarrassing episode for them.
No - Only cubieboard1 with the A20 - I believe the cubieboard2 has gigabit ethernet and wireless.
According to http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121011/srep00725/full/srep00..., there is a nice correlation between perceived difficulty and a nice, objectively computable number.

So, a sudoku seems to be extremely hard iff η > 3.

And no, you don't need to do an exhaustive search.
This.

I couldn't agree more. WHile I've had only a brief stint with MATLAB at an internship, the code was possibly the ugliest thing I'd ever seen. Given that I'm a physics major and will probably be encountering matlab quite frequently, I sure hope that it won't be so horribly documented, and just so unreadable.

I was so offended, I had to rewrite over 2000 lines of code in python, and on completion, the python code was a little of 700 lines, clean, and so god-damn readable.

To any other academics out there, I urge, no plead with you to consider using a more general purpose programming language.
It is a nightmare for undergrads like me to try and extend matlab to further applications.

However, I'm glad to say that the first computational physics course we will be taking at our university teaches us python, thankfully someone in the department had a clear view of what was going to benefit us.
Government is power. And power simply must be limited.

If not, there will be even more abuse, meaning: democracy will be curbed or even eliminated.

And that means, general injustice will increase sharply.

And this leads to a lock-in situation where injustice cannot be reversed b/c it protects itself. It's already the case to a certain degree in Washington, today, when you look to what extreme extent money is replacing democracy ("money" of course being a handful of ultra-rich people).
I'm curious -- what do you think the tradeoffs are for Dynatable versus Datatables?
The degree to which it is enforced today - I'm not sure, but:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg...
You can find an alternative list of top 10 hardest Sudoku puzzles here (with C source code to find them):

https://github.com/hpenedones/sudoku

Basically, I have a solver and I count the number of backtracking decisions that the solver has to make.
that's cute, who would get the privilege to run those tax-protected retirement funds. What sort of investments would be permitted in these funds? Aren't these people, then, the benefits of largesse created as people flee the taxation?
For those of us who have never heard of this software, it would be great if somewhere prominent on the webpage it said what GPGMail actually is. Instead the most prominent thing is how many bug fixes and sleepless nights this mystery software required.
The thing that comes to mind is the C idiom for copying strings:

while(dest++ = src++);

"...their notion of repetition was so tightly connected to the idea of an associated controlled variable to be stepped up, that they were mentally blocked from seeing the obvious."
Any content aggregator where stories float to the top but are increasingly depressed according to the passage of time suffers from this. Articles requiring a few minutes are ideal, while longform essays are usually marked for later reading. By the time someone has a comment, the thread is buried under mountains of short, easily-digestible "Reasons I Like Go" and "New MySQL Vulnerability"-type posts.
The detailed explanation is here, linked from the status site: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-status#status-i...
At no point is anybody going to "win" this particular contest. Numbers go up and down and back and forth, but this isn't a horse race. If any company were to win here (even, or possibly especially, Google) it would be a huge loss for everyone. The fact that you're even using that word is very telling. Monopolies are bad news for everyone regardless of who possesses them.

You seem to be rooting for some sort of open source monopoly rather than a Google monopoly, but I think even that would be a bad thing. I'd much rather see a world where different business models and different development methodologies (open source vs. proprietary vs. hybrid, walled gardens vs. Wild West vs. everything in between, etc.) are all doing what they do best and competing with each other and learning from each other.

It's absolutely true that Android as you know it now simply would not exist if it didn't originally have the iPhone to draw inspiration from; this is pretty incontrovertible. I'm not saying that to denigrate Android in any way, but rather to point out that different approaches to product development have different pros and cons, and having all of those approaches coexisting and competing and evolving is a much better situation for everyone than having only one major player or one development methodology industry-wide. This is includes the seemingly-positive-but-not-really outcome where some form of "freedom" or "openness" becomes the monopoly.
Note that most countries do not provide tax breaks to homeowners, this is a uniquely US phenomenon.

There are many cases where renting makes more sense, but the factors are multiple: taxes, interest rates, up front equity, property values, closing costs, rental market, etc.
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There's cheaper alternatives. I don't like anything billed
monthly.
That is a terrible name for a framework, you should have called it 'shdvg'.
The thing about these statistics is that they are usually statistics on where reported crimes occur, and reported crimes of certain types.

Crime is essentially infinite these days.
I could walk down the street in any neighborhood, and in the vast multitude of federal and state statutes, I would feel comfortable that i could arrest every single person i met for something.

Maybe they wouldn't get convicted. But i would legally be able to arrest them.

So then the question becomes "what kinds of crimes do we want o prevent, and where do these occur", that is what gets you into profiling, because it is actually profiling. You are making value judgements about what kinds of crimes you want to be looking for.
Because of socioeconomic and other statuses, the offender profiles for these crimes differ, etc.

Even if you only make the value judgements, and do so blind to race, it's still profiling, just "offender profiling" rather than "racial profiling".
I have a theorem which I refer to as the Fuzzwah theory, it goes like this:

"The more you know about a topic, the more it will annoy you when it is covered by the main stream media."

Once you realize this with regards to topics you're knowledgeable about you start taking coverage of ALL topics with a grain of salt, knowing that someone who knows all about it is probably cringing and / or yelling at how poorly it is being reported.

PS: I was obsessed with online poker a few years back and was an avid 2plus2 forum reader. The 1st person which I recall giving excellent advice about putting people on a range was Cole "CTS" South. He even sold an ebook called Let There Be Range for (initially, from memory) something like $5,000 a pop (it still sells for $1400 on amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982402252 )
These guys might consider allowing people to pay for more requests. Even with the source, it would be easier for some people to just pay you, and you can still keep everything open source.
In case of hibernation it seems very plausible that an animal evolved to sleep longer and longer, to preserve energy. I don't understand your problem? It could also work this way: an environment had enough food to sustain 20 bears in winter. If they sleep longer, the environment can sustain 40 bears. If they sleep even more, 100 bears can survive. The population would then grow from year to year, while sleeping more and more.
What books on evolution have you read?
NICE! I've been looking for something like this to interface with Piwik
I don't think Job's would have allowed this to happen?
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
$GOOG: $847 million (87% of the Waze purchase price) attributed to “synergies.”
I am sympathetic to people who prefer BSD-style licenses for many reasons, including simplicity, GPLv3 overreach avoidance, and even just declining to give attention to a certain obnoxious man (regardless of what you think of the politics).

However, the individualist in me really likes being able to install my own software on my own hardware. The GPL license, specifically in the areas of a system needed to boot and minimally run, has successfully helped me do this several times in the past, by pushing vendors to deliver source for something that they probably wouldn't have otherwise. It doesn't always work, and it isn't perfect, but it has worked in some cases where seemingly nothing else would have.

As long as this continues to be the case, I won't celebrate the replacement of busybox for licensing purposes.
Celery is more of a distributed processing framework than a queue in and of itself. It usually plugs into a queueing system, but you can have it use mongo or redis for it's backend if you want and no one would call those queueing systems.
No, cubieboard and cubieboard2 are identical apart from the SoC. Both use RTL8201CP as an Ethernet PHY, which only supports 10/100 mbps. Neither has WiFI.
To use a car analogy, Apple is a premium car maker, similar to how Lexus is viewed in the USA.

Apple ships absolutely enormous volumes of devices to virtually every strata of the economy, selling the "premium" iPhone 5 (which is still owned by kids with burger-flipping jobs -- my jobless niece in a working-class family has one), to the last generation iPhone 4S discount device, to the even older generation iPhone 4 ultra-discount device. Then there's the incredible value iPod Touch that Samsung can't compete with.

They may not offer dollar-store products, but they're more like the Old Navy of brands than any sort of elitist assumptions.

They make good products and they stay away from the very low end (though they do still pitch a three year old device), but luxury comments aren't rationally supported.

Worth noting that Samsung's smartphone ASP (average selling price) is just under $500. Apple's is currently $580. The narrative that Samsung made bank on waves on discount devices just aren't supported by economics, and the models are much closer than many seem to think.
I wonder why he didn't allude to Socrates' arguments for accepting death. It would bolster the essay's appeal to reason. As it stands this stuff is open to less rational attacks.
the a priori assumption here is that the government is 'better' than private interests in deciding how charitable funds should be spent. Why do you think that these newfound revenues coming into the treasuries of the state will be subjected to good stewardship? The government is liable to be using those funds to fight unjust wars, subject innocent people to draconic and unjust policies with escalating costs (like the drugs wars), and so on and so forth.

And there are plenty plenty plenty of corrupt businessmen, but it's way worse in government. right now there is a controversy going on in the central basin municipal water district in california, where overbilling contractors (and kickbacks) happened, the son of an LA councilman was 'hired' as the director, paid six figures to do nothing, and had benefits such as a retirement plan and paid tuition for an expensive private undergraduate degree. How do you get away with that? Almost every director of a nonprofit charity knows that there are rules upon rules prohibiting conflicts of interest that you have to bend over backwards making sure you don't violate in case the IRS comes after you.
Why exactly is it a bad thing for a country to decide it wants a intelligent or friendly (or healthy, in this case) immigrant population, rather than the opposite?
Persistence is key to participation -- they've got almost 10,000 participants, and e-mails seem to fall through the cracks sometimes. (I've been trying to turn in my set 4 answers for two weeks. Hopefully some filter isn't eating my e-mails because they contain the phrase "#YOLOSWAG"...)
Google's API is for a very different thing: it converts an address to a lat/long and vice-versa.
Alpha humans I'm not so concerned about - every group has a few larger-than-life personalities who will show off a little more, lead the pack, etc - I'm not sure it's strictly fair to say that these individuals are always driven to rub people's noses in things and trying to take authority. Some people make good leaders and have empathy.

What I am worried about, and the criteria that fits your description more neatly (in my opinion -- I'm not a psychologist) is sociopathic behaviour - manipulative, deceptive, sans empathy, and in pursuit of power/dominance, but often outwardly charming.

These people can do very well and reach very powerful positions - there are statistics showing that density of sociopaths is higher amongst the population of CEOs than amongst the general population for example. There's probably fair reason to assume that many would love to have access to the kind of information and power that spy agencies now possess.

Interestingly and controversially there has also been research into using 'big data' to identify sociopathic tendencies. Would spy agencies use this, and would they ever turn the glass on their own employees/leaders? I think the answer is that they would, but they would easily be convinced that they need powerful leaders to ensure the ongoing dominance of their countries on a global scale.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/23/twitter-psych...

PS: I felt compelled to reply because I think it's a little dangerous to suggest that this is a purely natural result of human pack behaviour - it is possible to spot and call out sociopathic behaviour if it can be identified, and so I don't personally think this trend towards authoritarianism is natural or unstoppable.
I dont think it will max out. I brute forced it upto 10 million and I got the following numbers (5, 679) (6, 6788) (7, 68889) (8, 2677889) sure the numbers are exponential but no reason to suspect that a glass ceiling exists.
I want to give people choice to contribute back.

'Do as you please and leave the copyright' vs. 'Do as you please, leave copyright, distribution requires sources etc...' Which is more permissive? "Permissive" in your sense of the word is entirely a misnomer since it's effectively a permission whitelist not a blacklist.

This is getting to be entirely repetitious since I've had this discussion many times before. I'll let an old post explain why I can never in good conscience put GPL on anything I do : http://eksith.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/gpl-vs-bsd
That kind of comment is uncalled for (I'm a C++ programmer).
No IPv6 support?
How is it Windows all over again?

Windows 3.0 and 95 were built on top of DOS which already had the majority of the market. Apple never had a large portion of the world-market in the 80s and 90s.

Samsung doesn't make the operating system but only the phones. Google doesn't profit directly from Android. So neither of those two companies are similar to Microsoft of the 80s.

DOS was incredible strong in the enterprise sector and that's how Windows really grew. Mac was weak in that sector. Android isn't built on top of anything similar to DOS. It also isn't stronger in the enterprise sector than iOS.

The battle between Windows and Mac was not about "free" versus proprietary. Hardware vendors didn't get Windows for free. Microsoft made its money selling Windows.

Windows didn't "win" because of just one company. Although IBM did push DOS, they didn't push Windows. Windows "won" because of many companies.

Apple wasn't the largest IT-giant in the 80s and 90s. It is now. It has a fortune in the bank and plenty of smart people.

It isn't really Android that has the majority marketshare. It is Samsung! I.e. one hardware company.

So it really isn't anything like Windows and Mac from 80s and 90s. This is something different.

It is however a battle of marketshare involving Apple, and right now they are losing share to something that looks similar to iOS, just like they lost to Windows that looked similar to Mac in the 90s. However, the situation and premises are not the same.

What will be interesting now, is if Samsung and Google will continue to get along and if Samsung will want to differentiate themselves more from stock Android. I think they'll have to, in order to compete against even cheaper phones in the long run; The Android market could implode in a massive price-war with profit margins dropping to 0 everywhere.

Apple can also still fight back. iOS is a reasonably solid foundation, and right now Samsung is their only real competitor. Traditionally, these devices compete on Software, design, and hardware capabilities. Apple is a much stronger software and design company than Samsung... So who knows how this will end?
you can revoke your S/MIME key from a CA (you just need to remember the revocation password you gave them)

S/MIME is also built in to (almost) every thick MUA. it works on iOS out of the box, it works in outlook, thunderbird, mail.app and mutt out of the box.

once you generate a S/MIME cert through a big provider, none of the other big providers will give you an e-mail cert for the email issued by the other big provider (probably, still trusting them to do the right thing).
Lots of economists like wealth taxes, too, though talking about them to wealthy people often goes over poorly.

A wealth tax encourages putting assets to work rather than simply engaging in "wealth preservation". Replacing most tax revenue with a wealth tax + a VAT (a consumption tax) ensures that everyone contributes fairly, and offsets the "immediate consumption" incentives.
I'd recommend gumroad.com [1] as a simple button to accept micro payments.

[1] http://gumroad.com
Plenty of countries already have partly-tax-exempt retirement savings, to encourage people to lock money up for retirement instead of making equivalent instant access investments.
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