skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kinds of things he is saying are very widely espoused by people of similar mindset. If you were trying to profile based on political beliefs and agitation he could easily be me.

(he isn't, for what that's worth, I personally know thousands of others that fit in the exact same category and I am sure there are many, many more.)
> the navy is right there with them because heavy planes can't take off from aircraft carriers

This seems an inadequate and/or overly-simplified explanation. The F-14 was a beast, far heavier than the F-35 or, for that matter, the A-6. And that was 1960s technology. Surely now we could build a capable, carrier-launched ground-attack craft with weight comparable to an F-14?
Outside of intensely physically addictive substances such as opiates and methamphetimines, there's nothing more dangerous than alcohol simply because of the availability and cultural acceptance. You can be a hardcore alcoholic as long as you're functional and almost no one will say jack about it.
I looked at that as well but I went with what I felt to be the safer option. The Mycestro is not that revolutionary, it essentially still is a mouse only not tethered to your desk. For me it's closer to one of those presentation pointing devices than to the Myo or Leap Motion.
Part of the philosophical justification for the "full-disclosure movement" is the belief that, much like scientific discoveries, they almost never happen in a vacuum by a lone brilliant researcher.

Which is to say, that it is entirely possible (I'm not going to presuppose how likely) that this has been known about for some time, and used for other nefarious purposes in a manner that wasn't so "easily" detected (the existence of a master record of all Bitcoin transactions makes it much more likely for this to be found than people exploiting it in some random app).

It could be that somewhere right now, in dozens of coffee shops throughout Eastern Europe, South America, and Asia, a group of collective hackers, each unaware of the existence of any others, read this blog post and uttered their linguistic equivalent of "Son of a Bitch".
Why I Resist Web Redesigns (And Maybe You Do, Too) : Monkey See
Microsoft Releases Another Flawed Patch For Exchange Server
Trillion edge graph processing
Presumably because some Android devices don't boot cold with a lot of entropy, so there's a virtue in helping kickstart it.
I started http://lifestyle.io to be a sort of HN for bootstrappers. I'd fallen off posting during Army training last month.

Is there any interest in me continuing that side project? I'm happy to spend the 10 minutes each day hand-curating of its genuinely useful to even 10 or 15 people.
The new Macbook Air. The battery life is amazing for on the go needs. If you are traveling and are away from a plug often, this is critical. It is powerful enough for pretty much anything you would need and light weight and compact enough.
Funny you should mention this. I was asked to "suggest solutions" to this in 2008 as a client-facing AWS enterprise consultant in the mobile industry.

The naïve way relies on: "If there isn't a Rootkit or capture mechanism, it's secure if it's obscure." That will buy an iota of time.

The other way is to simply not trust the host and end-to-end encrypt everything important. This is a PITA, but there is no current viable alternative without a significantly rigorous and extensive project (would be in the form of a VM for servers &| something that runs on js like asm.js)

Mostly you need zero knowledge computation. Storage and network are easier probs.

The intractable problem is eventually an answer needs to be presented somewhere. For now, you should minimize exposure as much as possible through all means available.
NSA: We touch "only" 1.6% of Internet traffic
There was also a project to embed a Lua interpreter in the NetBSD kernel. http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/luakern/
I like the illustrations. Especially the woman pushing the alien in a shopping cart.
I live in the USA, in a rural agricultural community, and there is still no electricity on my part of the road. Apparently the funds from the "Rural Electrification Program" were spent elsewhere.

We got phone lines in during the 1990's but no power, yet my neighbors right up the road from me have had electricity for years.
I always thought it was weird hearing Google devs pronounce it like "na-cull" (like na in "na na na na na na" and "cull" as in killing something) instead of "salt".
At what point do you differentiate between a phone and a computer?
It depends.

If they only say that, then I hear that they have an idea, but haven't done anything to bring it about. Because any business person should be able to tell you what they have been doing to pursue their idea, and give me an elevator pitch.

Did they look at the potential market? How big is it? How many buyers? Consumer focused or business focused but consumer serving? Do they have customers lined up? Investors? Do they have a budget and time table they can show? How long until they are profitable, once they have a product? Do they require network effects to grow and be successful? Who are they competing with? Is there regulation in the industry? And they should be able to answer questions that I, a developer, haven't even considered.

If they can talk about it, show how the market is there, and have buyers lined up, that's like a technical founder having a program written and just needing someone to sell it. It's still not an insignificant amount of work, but the end is in sight.

But if it's just "I just need a tech co-founder for my idea", and they can't talk about it, can't show how it would work, don't have anybody interested, that's not having the program, or even not having written the program yet. That's like not knowing how to program.

They are the business person, they need to be the one talking and selling their product. They need to be able to show how if the idea is made into a product, they can take that product and get money.

Ideas are great, but the old saying is 10% Inspiration, 90% Perspiration. So the person who says that, his or her job is to show that the idea is marketable and potentially profitable.
It's a good insight. There is distinction between I/O (rendering the video and audio to the host) and computations of a seemingly blackbox. Would also be an interesting avenue for malware to grow into if possible. The problem is there's always been decryption code that has to live somewhere that effectively unlocks the whole thing. Edit: PyPy but zk computing for malware.
If I understand correctly, the attacker didn't even need to know which clients were vulnerable or details of why, they simply scanned the Bitcoin blockchain for vulnerable transactions/addresses and stole any Bitcoins they could. Only then did anyone realize which client(s) were vulnerable and the actual bug.

Though they probably could have stolen more money by waiting until they had collected more private keys, there was a risk that someone else would find the same keys and steal it first.

One somewhat fortunate consequence is there will now be lots of people actively scanning the blockchain for these sort of vulnerabilities thus they should be found extremely quickly, which is great for everyone except the unfortunate first victim. Hopefully clients will specifically test for this as well.

Also note that you can avoid this class of vulnerabilities by not reusing Bitcoin addresses.
Could anybody explain (or provide a pointer to an explanation of) the details of how the individual words are mapped to vectors? The source is available, but optimized such that the underlying how's are a bit opaque, and the underlying whys even more so.
I'm a layperson when it comes to cryptography. Can you clarify how much entropy a device would need to become cryptographically secure, and the profile of an Android device that couldn't collect enough entropy quickly? E.g. most devices could collect battery %, 3G radio noise levels, wifi noise, readings from the capacitive touch sensors, accelerometer, microphone etc., yes?
It's too bad I can't buy distance vision glasses. Only reading glasses.
Her personal assets != foundation assets.

Presumably she runs a non-profit, which, for better or worse, are frequently graded on value delivered vs. administrative expenses. Paying an intern is an administrative expense.
Does it use multiple pools a-la Fortuna?
There is a massive difference between "possible" and "possible with a small but non-trivial probability". This is evidence for the hypothesis that there is life on Titan. Weak evidence, but it still increases the probability enough to actually start speculating and possibly justify further research.
I'm not sure it's a handicap...

I've been paid for work in roughly 12 different programming languages over a 28+ year career, among them python (no braces at all, significant white-space), Rexx (keywords as braces), C, C++, Perl, Pascal, Bourne shell, Awk, C#, (braces braces and more braces), x86 assembler and several employer specific scripting tools.

Guess which ones are most comfortable? Certainly not python though it is the most bang for the buck of the languages I use and I'd rather eat hospital food for the rest of my life than write (or, deity forbid read) one more line of x86 assembler.

What was it we were talking about again?
For me, car is an unavoidable evil. With a young family and not living in a metropolis, not having a car make life about 10x more difficult. The practicality of dropping the kids off to school, doing the daily groceries, numerous appointments for medical, local governmental, social events etc. And this is living in Germany where you would think its density would be high enough to not own a car.

When I lived in Australia, it is almost impossible to live without a car if you live in the suburbs. Most of them don't even have public transport service.
I work for Cisco (for a little while, at least), and my observation is that Cisco primarily obtains staff by acquiring other companies, not through direct hires. It then spends some time digesting each new acquisition, and finally is left with some quantity of people who, even if they were performing a useful function in the original company, now have no real job to do.

I don't know which BUs are affected by this but I'd be unsurprised to find it's all from acquisitions that are between 2 and 5 years old.
How to Speak Tinglish
I quote:

We'd hope that this will get enough of our users
exposed to and interested in Blender so they will
be inclined to work on Blender plugins that would
talk to Steam's backend services

Recruiting you say? Certainly so, they appear to be taking volunteers.
Microsoft Censors OpenOffice Download Links
I'm really, really hoping that self-driving cars show up sooner, rather than later.

You'll see a really, really drastic reduction in car ownership - the demographics are primed for it.
Absolutely this. I got back into competitive swimming (masters level, nothing too serious) and suddenly my training sessions were real workouts, not the laziness I do when I'm by myself. I actively try and avoid alcohol during the week as it just make training worse.
Yeah, the papers linked in the references are probably a better place to start than the readme (though I'm not sure how closely aligned this implementation is with that research, but the paper is still a good read), especially [1]

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3781.pdf
I'm more shocked that some people actually trust their phones enough to install bitcoin clients on them.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw this site.
Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Successor of the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 released 8 years ago.
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/sculpt-ergonomic-desktop/L5V-00001
So, I don't really buy arguments like this. Would your friends who are comfortable with JS but aren't engineers actually be interested in learning microcontroller programming because they can do it in JS? When you move from scripting a web page to programming on a very limited embedded system, you're changing to a completely different paradigm. Instead of worrying about the DOM and AJAX, you're worrying about GPIO and PWM and interrupts. The actual syntax of the language is a rather minor detail compared to all of this. Now, I'm not saying that we should all be coding microcontrollers in ASM or AVR C, but what makes Javascript more approachable than, say, Arduino?
What were the results? Did people end up using it? Did they start contributing?
The OP has quite a large section on S/VTOL and Guadalcanal.
Do we have to? In other words are our opponents (strategic only so far) China and Russia have aircraft that would be superior? In other words do we need to improve or it would just be nice to.
That's exactly what I thought of.
I frequently see Cisco recruiters so its hard to understand exactly whats going on.
FIPS is about compliance, not about security.
These are good points, and useful lessons for any entrepreneur.

The great thing about SpaceX is that they use advanced technology very appropriately and pragmatically. They didn't design a carbon fiber body SSTO RLV or anything like that, they built a 2 stage LOX/Kerosene expendable rocket, a design that's been around since the 1950s. They built a small vehicle and spent a few years building institutional knowledge of building and operating orbital launchers. Then they used that knowledge to build products that were competitive in the market. Now they're continuing to iterate like crazy and building a lot of exiting new things off of what they've already proven: the manned Dragon, Falcon Heavy, Falcon 9 v1.1, and Falcon 9-R.

If they continue to put a consistent amount of effort into iterative R&D they'll not only own most of the orbital launch market they'll own a lot of new markets that don't even exist yet.

They're just applying common sense and building obvious designs well to compete in a market filled with companies that aren't used to strong competition.
We're working on a similar problem at PrivateCore: Protecting VM data in-use on outsourced infrastructure.

We're running a high-assurance, remotely attestable hypervisor inside the CPU cache and encrypting all access to main memory. This protects against threats from the physical layer, like cold boot, DMA attacks, NVDIMMs, bus analyzers, etc.

It's not quite what you're talking about in your Amazon and NSA scenario. Amazon doesn't let you bring your own hypervisor to run on bare metal and the NSA can compromise the CPU itself.

However, our approach does give you assurance that someone with physical access can't easily snapshot your VM memory.
Yeman - A simple guide
Since this is as good a time as any: I snidely implied that this was likely to have been due to a bug on the part of the Bitcoin community rather than a design error in the Android platform. That seemed like a reasonable guess at the time, but it was wrong, so: sorry, Bitcoin et al devs.
You know, he never said he was a CS or engineering major.
Blame whichever license you want. It doesn't matter.

Let's say it is Autodesk's fault and they don't care. Now what? Blender is the tool that's a pain in the ass to use so the onus is on them to make their tool not suck. Meanwhile the rest of the world will continue to use FBX because it's an awesome format to work with.
Hundreds of Protesters Killed in Latest "Mass Killing" in Egypt
Revisiting Matrix Multiplication, Part I
I wouldn't believe any of what DPR said is actually true.
Room-temperature water is readily available, easier to handle, and works almost as well.
Interesting to see that this also plays in the USA. Largest opinion magazine in the Netherlands had a big article about how today it's a status symbol not to have a car, because for young people it's associated with living on the countryside where it's impossible to get around without one; and living on the countryside means general lower education, lower pay, for people in their 20s/30s. Not surprisingly: the car as a status symbol still exists there. Wondering if this also goes for the USA...
A drone?

Why even bother putting a pilot into a steel tube with wings so it can fly some distance ahead, launch another faster steel tube with fins, then turn back.

The only reason to even have a person in there is for dog-fighting for what I see. Otherwise with specs you described, it is just a pointless waste of money.
27 years old, I told myself long ago that the first car I would buy would be a newer Passat-style car that I'd be able to buy without taking a loan. Long away from that but living in Germany and in the center of town I don't really need one anyway :)

And when, like right now I really must have a car I do as I did for this week and borrowed my parent's :)

I love not having a car, the money you save is insane (especially with our gas prices over here).
They've still got 8 years on that clock. Not to mention a rather smaller budget.
Oh, we've been scanning the blockchain for this for quite some time ;)

It would be great to see it pushed down to the client, though. Easy way to avoid a simple cryptographic tripwire that's likely to recur if the BTC clients continue to rely on library sources of randomness.
Because driving is a lot of fun. As someone who is 29 years old, I got my first car when I was 25, so yes I cared a lot less about cars then the ideal American 16 year old looking forward to his first ride. When I did get my car though, I realized how much I had been missing out on.

Driving is fun. It is enjoyable, a great reliever of stress. Driving and programming are my two biggest joys in life.
That's how Nordstrom started actually.
The 99% of people who use linear regression but would not call it machine learning probably aren't very well versed in regularization, cross-validation, non-linear transformations, feature engineering, data snooping, bagging, boosting, generalization, etc.

A finely tuned linear regression is a devastating machine learning algorithm.
How about disabling it from space. Load a cruise missile onto a satellite and launch?
"If I were not hooked on cigarettes, as a smart, otherwise disciplined person, I'd be more sympathetic with this libertarians on drugs."

Ok, then... if you could do any political change in the society without stripping essential freedoms, what change do you think would be most effective in stopping/alleviating the drug problem? It seems to me that the best way would be to legalize them all: it would make it possible to control the supply, detect problem cases, remove a lot of criminal markets and thus actual crimes with victims, and get more taxes. Even the "think of the children!" aspect seems to be better covered by this, since it's quite a lot easier to enforce ID checks in legal shops.
Is this a joke? Some basic thought processes would probably have avoided some of the BS that the US has engaged in. Which recent wars have been fought that didn't involved US weapons being used against the US? Long term thinking is required. Less fixation on war, killing, rendering, torturing, interrogating dominating and conquering might, see something productive happen with the vast sums of wasted money and lives.
Edit: Words and stuff.
For those interested, there's a discussion on Reddit (posted by my co-founder) as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ke0ro/commonwealth...
I found a package that advertises being an R-like data frame just today, but haven't yet played with it: https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/munger
I used a lot of weasel words in my comment to avoid follow up comments like this.

Maybe, anecdotal etc...

It was simply something I noticed from lots of years working with lots of people from lots of different countries. No offense was intended.
> Non-string values are not valid hash keys. - ES6 Maps

Yes, this is a good thing :)

> The prototype system is less powerful .. - No. Just different

Javascript let you use prototypes to cause map lookups for absent keys to fall back to a different map. Lua lets you use prototypes to override every operator, make the object callable, override map lookups for absent keys, and override assignment of new keys. All of these operations can be made to call into arbitrary functions the user provides. Python, an OO scripting language, provides all of the same features.

It seems to me that among these three languages there is a greater difference between the more powerful systems and the less powerful system than between the prototypal systems and the OO system.

> The language will never have continuations.. - Generators help here. We use them with node --harmony

Python also has generators, but you still need greenlet or stackless if you want to use coroutines. The inability to suspend from a subroutine is a deal breaker. Generators are probably nice for writing generators. For writing control flow, Continuation.js seems like a better choice.

> Scoping. - Fat arrows and block scoping coming in ES6.

=> lets you use a lexically scoped this, which is likely a dynamically scoped this from an enclosing lexical scope. This sounds useful, but it doesn't really make things less messy.
switchers? Seriously, cnn just lost what little respect I had for them..
Sorry about your illness.
You seem to have lots of experience in this field and you should start working on some business apps for Linux and smartphone. You can also write a business plans and that's great.

In your life, you should focus on things that you are in control, such as your desire and goals.
You can't do much about things that you don't have control like people's opinions.

Start building, show what you are doing and probably, this people at Saint Louis will change their attitude. If they don't, you should not care at all. Some people will not understand how you feel until they get in the same your situation some day. Smile them back and try harder in what you love to do.

Have a great day!

P.S:Join some events like Startup Weekend, pitch your ideas or join other teams. It is a easier way to improve your social skills.
When zerocoin is implemented things in this space will change a lot.

I personally think any technology such as zerocoin that can mask the transaction path 100% would increase the value of the currency by 100x
Uh, you mean like electronic mail? Some kind of e-mail, if you will?
That's ridiculous. There is no law that says evolution can optimize itself out of any constraint. And even if it does, it might not look like much. For example there are tons of bacteria in the sky just floating in the wind, but unless you look closely you'd pretty much never know. And for most of Earth's history you wouldn't have seen multicellular life. It took a long time for the giant forests you see to evolve. And even then, you don't have that kind of massive biomass in places like Antarctica or deep underground.

Evolution is a pretty tricky thing. If some improvement can't easily be reached through iterative random improvements, then it won't be. And it easily gets stuck in local maximas where little or no improvements are made for ridiculously long periods of time. It's like getting to the top of the hill. There might be a mountain in the distance, but there is no path that leads to it without first going down off the current hill.
> You don't see professional musicians trying to play 10 different instruments on world level.

Yeah, but a violinist wanting to learn how to play the piano doesn't try to rub the keys with a bow. If you are a Javascript Web Developer, picking up a microcontroller is already going pretty far out of your domain. You might as well learn how to use the tools that were already suited for that task.