skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculation: Guys like Joe Lewis typically have multiple angles to a deal which ultimately have some quid pro quo, and it appears that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (A multi-billion dollar semiconductor company) stands to gain a lot of this investment. It would be interesting to know whether or not Mr. Lewis's investment is a bet more for bitcoin, or for TSM's stock to increase (with their newly gained cash infusion and distribution channel)
Hopefully a tipping point against Falkvinge's endless rhetoric is closer than I think.
I'm more of a server-side guy but have to make occasional trips to the front-end. This guide was great for people like me who don't know all of the jargon. Thanks, and I'm really looking forward to your e-book.
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't really use Windows anymore, but will keep it in mind. I do wish I could find a simple text editor with PFE32 like macro record and templates for OS X.
What overhead? If you mean performance, there's actually basically no runtime performance overhead in most cases. In fact, if you use CoffeeScript's "for" loops have a performance advantage over JavaScript Array's map()/forEach() methods.

I used to have a similar opinion but was forced to use CoffeeScript on a project and haven't looked back.
Golang's stdlib is not the best example to use to back up your argument.

It's a type-casted ugly hackfest that serves only to demonstrate the mis-design of the language itself.
Onion sites are (typically) accessed over HTTP, so the fact that I didn't think HTTP was flawed demonstrates that there's some misinterpretation here.

I'd suggest that you're the one being overly pedantic. "Protocol" doesn't necessarily have to refer to something explicitly labeled as a "protocol".
A simple plugin for HN
Since when is a crime measured in megabytes?
That second paragraph doesn't make sense to me. How do you use a convolution to sample down? And don't you mean low-pass filter in the last sentence?
Rand is always popular among people, who get cheated. Kind of people among whom resentment(Bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly) is high. If you look at it closely these are generally the kind of people who do everything right, and then only find some not even 1/10th the worth take away fruits of their work.

These are generally the kind of hard working working people who get cheated due to office politics, or an unfair boss, or the people who score less marks because the teacher wanted to reward her otherwise favorite pupil.

One of the top reasons why people want to have their own business is because 'working for others' ultimately leads to a situation where you do all the work, while not getting nearly the atom worth the due rewards you deserve. Its not selfish or arrogant or even wrong that such people ultimately take things into their own hands and refuse to put up with being treated unfairly.

When I first read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. The philosophy of it looked straight obvious and something that I myself have gone through.

Rand's philosophy is not the case, but rather a effect of a deep rooted malaise where some people find it perfectly fine to cheat. And expect the person to be fine being cheated.

On a side note, I attended a Start up conference a years back here Bangalore. At the end there was open panel discussion as to what makes a better career option 'Start up or a Job at a Megacorp' a middle manager from representing a mega corp called start up founders are impatient, greedy and selfish. This is how bad the situation gets when you put up with unfair treatment, the person cheating thinks it's perfectly ok to treat you unfairly. And more, it is unfair to him that you refuse to get cheated.

Want to prevent the Rand philosophy from spreading, do something that triggers its flow and adoption at the first place. But we all already know that's not going to happen.
yeah, but is quantum state really necessary to replicate an indistinguishable copy of a human being? There's probably some sort of lossy way to represent a human brain-state and body-state that's good enough. As a thought experiment: how much subatomic noise could you introduce into your own body before you damaged it significantly? Irradiation, electric shocks, temperature changes, introduction of various chemicals - and yet you're still you. Your "self" could probably survive some pretty spectacular waveform transcription errors.
Learn whatever you want I would say. It's your own choice. But in general it's good to develop learning a language that is applicable to other software development. Learning C or C++ for that matter is a lot better because C has a great relationship to show you what assembly does.

QT also has it's strengths/weaknesses. Try using http://libnui.github.io/nui3/ if you want it may be easier.
I think you're underestimating how crappy all of those things are with your 80% figure...
The article talks about the requirement to release source code to the public, if modifications are made. This is a common misconception, but generally not the case, depending on the license. Typically, source code release is required if the software is distributed. If you've modified open source software for internal, private use, you typically are not compelled to release the source code, because you are not distributing the software.
Docker: The future of Linux Containers
If the NSA can tap all traffic, can they not control/stop all Internet traffic?
Assuming the severity of the NSA's reach into deep packet flows is such that they can intercept pretty much any communication - it would be negligent to believe the NSA could not shut down any/many/the most important communication networks.

This, to me, is the most egregious fact - We are utterly beholden to the actions of the NSA.

Irrespective of any slurping capability they may have - where, given sufficient public outcry/upstanding/revolt, which may be able to stop said slurping; the real problem is that the NSA is truly capable of STOPPING global comms when they feel the need to do so (like, for example, when the world realizes how absolutely controlled they are by banks, and decides it shall no longer be tolerated)

Is there anything anyone can say which would help me have faith in the reality of any true freedom remaining in this world?
Link bait title -- It was open source code mixed with Goldman Sachs proprietary code. This is also a summery of a much larger and more complete Vanity Fair article [1].

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...
Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146446
Polio doesn't always leave visible long-term side-effects. My father had it and was partially paralyzed for a couple of years as a child, but is normal now. He got lucky! One can only hope that, when we're so close to the final goal, people continue supporting vaccination efforts to finally put an end to this disease.
Dropbox is "pseudonomous-but-it's-a-hassle" -- you can register a new free Dropbox account with a temporary email, and then upload to its storage solely through the web client (avoiding the "only one account synced to your computer user-profile at a time" requirement.)

But yes, actual anonymity, like Imgur has (no need to register an account, just low limits and quick expirations) would be much better.
To anyone studing calculus:

lim{x -> ∞} (2x)/(3x) != (2 * infinity) / (3 * infinity)

In fact, the infinities we are speaking of are two completely different objects. The limit as x-> ∞ is explicitly defined seperatly from the limit as x->(Real Number). In fact this definition makes no further reference to ∞, and instead says that for any arbitrarily small, positive d, there is a real number m such that x>m implies (2x)/(3x) is within m of 2/3.
The infinity we are talking about when we say (2 * infinity) / (3 * infinity) = 2/3, (I assume) is the size of the set of integers, which bears no relation to the symbol ∞ used in limits.

Ultimately, the important thing to remember in situations like this is that if something has not been defined as true, or proven to be true, you cannot assume it. Many similarities (such as overloading operators) are chosen for convenience, not because they are the same.

The problem is that most of the time these similarities were made because there really is a strong parrallel, and you look like an idiot for wasting a math class to prove that 0x=0. (In my case, those two 0s weren't even the same object: the left one was a real number, the right one was a vector)
Linkbait title to blogspam for a vanity fair article, contains copypaste snippets from the original.
Was he tried by a jury of software engineers?
I only discovered this recently - I was using a literal "nc %h %p" rather than this shortcut.

Also worth noting this is also extremely useful when used in your ~/.ssh/config file.
You can't give out a .crx. Add it to the store or give out a zip file and instruct users to add it via Unpacked.
What?

Bittorrent tracks every IP address you interact with. An FBI-planted "seeder" or even FBI-controlled "peer" can prove which IP addresses are downloading or uploading illegal material.

Every transaction in BTC is _forever_ recorded into the public ledger. Every, single one. BTC is a goldmine for information, and is hardly private at all. Pseudo-anonymous is as close as you're gonna get, and after one transaction, your BTC wallet will forever be associated with a particular purchase.

The mesh-network is the closest idea you've got... but at the end of the day, the ISP is the weakest link. You're connecting to the internet somehow, and that means trusting Verizon, Comcast, or whoever to keep up with Network Neutrality. If Verizon / Comcast bans (or degrades the performance of) Tor nodes, and if ISPs hellban Tor nodes, then the system dies easily.

The first step to creating progress is to understand the current limitations of systems, and understand why they would or wouldn't work.

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Also, COINTELPRO and Project SHAMROCK. Public/private partnership has existed for an extremely long period of time. The political solution IMO is the most logical one, as it stopped Project SHAMROCK before, as well as Nixon's abuses of the government intelligence system. What was the FISA court created for, and is it effective at it's job? What has changed since the 1970s implementation of the FISA court? What are the citizen's responsibilities of the FISA system?

A key is fully understanding politics and US history, which the typical American is unfortunately extremely ignorant about. If you don't like the current situation, then learn a little history, learn a little politics, and do something about it.

EDIT: The answer btw, is to be aware of the "watchdog" systems that have been built into our democracy. The watchdogs are the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. As I've stated in my previous posts, the members on these Committees are charged with creating and drafting laws, and have full Top Secret clearances... and the ability to investigate any intelligence agency they so please. These committees were created in response to previous abuses (ie: see the projects I listed above), and are staffed by bipartisan groups.

Why were Senators like Wyden and Udall ignored when they were extremely vocal of these programs before? Were Americans just ignorant on these issues? Did people not care? Do people not realize the importance of listening to Senators / Representatives?
Silicon Valley, stop whining about tech talent shortage, do something about it
I'll take my teleportation without serialization, thank you.

I am ridiculously unqualified to comment on this topic, but the article seemed to start out on the wrong hypothesis from the beginning. It seems to me that if teleportation is going to work, it has to be an actual transfer of matter. I can't foresee us ever understanding the "state" of a human being enough to serialize it to "information" and convert it back.

It seems far more likely that we'll discover a means of moving matter than we will of de/rematerializing.
I second that Nmap recommendation.

Also, fping is an excellent ping sweeper if that's all you need (and it's now being updated again).

http://fping.org/
The worst part is when they create two copies of you. What happens to the contracts you signed? Are both of you engaged to your wife? Can both of you keep your job? Who owns your house?

Teleportation (and duplication) makes me realize that maybe we should change how we understand private property.
The degree of harm caused is often a factor in measuring a crime, especially when it comes to sentencing. As Garry points out, 8 years for this is crazy.
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The underestimation of political change in the US is one of the bigger errors. There is shallow but bipartisan support for this - but the interesting dynamic is that it's actually the 'hardcore activists' in both parties for an end to IP in general.

Important political figures, too, have opined on the matter, for example Richard Posner, a conservative/libertarian judge sitting fairly high on the federal bench.
I've noticed this too. I blame a combination of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and not knowing what the word actually means.

From my observation, it appears people assume "reductionist" means "simplistic" as opposed to "representing a complex system as no more than the sum of its components". To be honest, I think it's just an etymological problem: "reduction" sounds bad, so "reductionism" sounds bad.

The grandparent here follows this pattern. Using the actual meaning, it would be paradoxical for an approximation to be reductionist. In fact, it's quite the opposite. A reductionist would hold that the most accurate high-level model of a brain would be the most low-level model of a brain. If we could model each atom precisely then we would, necessarily, model the whole brain precisely.

The whole thing is pretty amusing when you take into account that anyone who manipulates software or systems in any serious way needs to engage in reductionism to be able to work. It's not as if "first, we write module A, then module B, then a system magically appears from the ether" is a viable architecture. At least, not since we stopped taking neural nets seriously.
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If you are willing to pay there are several.
There is a theoretical way they could cause problems, though, which needs more investigation. DNA can conduct. It may be possible for DNA molecules to act as antennas and have a current induced in them from electromagnetic waves passing through.

Some researches believe that part of the mechanism used to detect and repair damage to our DNA involves sending a current through the DNA and looking for anomalies. Externally induced currents could interfere with that damage detection and repair.

There are some pretty amazing and subtle things going on in our cells.
> Lossy human compression

Uh-oh, this is not something I would want to be a part of
"If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you before any questioning, if you wish."

it is when you're arrested. Until arrested - my understanding that one don't have to answer questions. Though personally i found it is really impossible to insist on your rights, i basically just chicken under stress : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6142434
I was by no means "nit-picking your words". I was asking you a question about a specific position you seemed to be implying. You can backtrack and say that you hadn't considered those implications. There's no shame in that. Or you could stand your ground and say that yes, you think that adult rape victims bear a small amount of responsibility relative to child victims. Those are both productive lines of discussion.

Accusing people of dishonesty when they disagree with you or ask uncomfortable questions is not an acceptable way to conduct yourself.
Much like when I go hunting for a good .com for a new project, it's mildly depressing to see how many of those two letter domains are rather going to waste.
My apologies, I should have checked the math, I didn't look too carefully and in frustration posted that number. I was also directing this at the 'physical' reconstruction, where only 1.2 x 10^10 bits are required. Clearly this wouldn't be billions but it's still thousands.

10^42 is the Bekenstein bound, you cannot possibly require more data as that represents the quantum state of the system.

A billion would be ~10.37 exabytes, or ~300 petabytes with lossless compression (ideally).
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Not helpful. My question demands an answer from the person making the claim, unless you happen to know what they're thinking. Besides, this sounds nothing like what they're talking about.

Worse, I don't think you're prepared to prove that a mostly pure-neuron simulation is incapable of giving rise to that certain complex quality apparently far removed from the level of the simulation.
Really? I live in DC and see them fairly often. Because Tesla is installing power stations primarily between NYC and DC, I would think this is one region where you would be most likely to see them, actually.
I have to disagree with you; the A8, S, and 7er are "large luxury" class cars. The A6 and 5er are "midsize luxury" and the A4 / 3 are "entry luxury." One should also consider the Lexus LS, GS, GX, and LX, an occasional Cadillac, the Toyota Land Cruiser, a variety of Jaguars and Range Rovers, and on and on. It's dishonest to assert that Tesla is taking 8.4% of the entire "luxury market" and then sneak in with the next breath that the luxury market includes only flagship sedans.
Work isn't bad. Having to work to survive is bad.
As much as I like C, it would be better if language choice does not depend on the performance it can deliver. It would be nice to see the JVM pull up closer to AOT compiled languages, but as this post painfully exposes, this seems implausible.
There's no reason to assume the 10^42 bits is an accurate measure. Most likely, there's significant compression that can be done on the data, both lossless and lossy that can bring the storage requirements down to a much more reasonable level.
You need to be much more specific on your definition of infinity. Say it is the set of all integers (we usually call this objects the integers). What does it mean to multiply it by a real number. One interpretation would mean to add it to itself (we are only multiplying by integers, so this is a simple definition). If we don't allow repeat elements, then this is trivially a NO-OP. If we do allow repeat elements, than 2infinity has 'twice' as many elements as infinity. However, we can still draw a 1:1 corraspondence between these two sets, so they are therefore the same size. IE. 1_0<>1,1_1<>2,2_0<>3,2_1<>4... Using this, we simplify to infinity/infinity=2/3. I cannot think of any good way to define infinity/infinity, but 2/3 does not seem like a good answer.

>We know that the outer circle circumference is larger than the inner circle circumference.

Who is talking about circumference, we are talking about the number of points. Consider that a point has a length of 0, and a circle has an infinite number of points, Using that, we get that the length of both circles is 0infinity, which is undefined. What Cantor is saying is that the infinity is the same object for both circles.

>How do you transition from that - to counting infinitely small dots on those circles and saying they have the same number of those dots?
You don't, the circumference has nothing to do with the number of points.
I only did the intense mathematical part (as part of math studies). It's fun.
All of these US "freedom" projects are about undermining governments that are not conducive to American interests and their ability to control rogue elements which would destabilize the State.

It's now evident that managed democracy with a massive surveillance state is what's behind the veil of global freedom and liberty. The most you can expect from the US government is to leave you alone, and they will only do that as long as you're not interfering with their economic or social interests.
Not to be a wet blanket, but isn't posting that copyright infringement?
Like it - esp. the reference to xkcd.
"Edmodo - digital social magazine curated by your friends"

I guess it is a mistake. But that is definitely not what Edmodo is doing.
This is the perfect tool for a simple and free backup solution for servers for configuration files, logs, and even encrypted database dumps.
>>Her "philosophy" is hardly recognized as such.

That's almost like vegetarians saying, meat is hardly recognized as a source of nutrition because they don't eat it.
It's a bit disingenuous to pretend that the EU acts as a whole and thus can be considered a single economy. A Cyprus Euro is not a German Euro. If Estonia decides to throw away the Berne Convention and legally allow wholesale piracy, the Germans ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H EU will happily throw them under the bus. Happy fun time with America is worth a lot more than indulging some minor political party's crazy sauce in some inconsequential EU state.
CS support is built-in to the Play! framework (Scala). By that I mean that it detects your CS files and compiles them for you as needed, then puts the resultant JS where it belongs amidst your static resources.
Minis are often sold alongside BMWs but they are not branded BMWs. Otherwise... is a Bentley a Volkswagen, or vice versa?
The article assumes we can develop a way to convert a person into the information needed to recreate that person as well as a way to reassemble that data into a person while keeping data transfer speeds at today's rates.

We've got a long way to go before we can start having conversations like "I can't teleport over, I only have 2.6x10^38b left on my mobile plan!"
Common Lisp is always fully typed, in that every object knows its type and the implementation won't allow actions which violate the type signatures involved.

C, with casts, is a lot closer to being optionally typed.
How to get classified military intel using social engineering
This is really cool.

But my 80% case is just installing Dropbox headless on a server. Then I can use 'ls', 'cp' and 'rm'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
>I do think it is "silly fearmongering" to suggest that they'll continue to develop and improve their system's capabilities in the specific way you're suggesting.

Why would they not exploit a capability that they have indicated interest in exploiting given that they've already crossed the line into illegally collecting as much private information as they can?

They sold the AT&T facilitated phone tapping as something they would do selectively, with FISA warrants. It turns out they were conducting mass collection of conversations and conversation-related data without warrants. Why would they show restraint with the ability to listen through consumer devices? Talking about scenarios that are likely to happen isn't "fearmongering" it's rational vigilance given where we're at.
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They've done no reporting/analysis?

They reported a CIA officials stated interest in using consumer devices for intelligence gathering. Their analysis of that was to presume it would be abused.

It may not be deep reporting or analysis, but your suggestion that they should be fined would be more in line with how Russia runs things than the media culture of the West.
Then someone else comes along, teaches it badly, and gets lauded for doing wonderful things.

Are you arguing that KA teaches all or most things badly? If not, then I'd clarify because your statement above makes it sound like you are pissed that KA gets lauded even though its crappy.