skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the battle of Midway the Japanese navy wargamed the battle and cadets (playing the US) did to the Japanese exactly what the actual US navy did. Naval command debunked the results, changed the rules, ran a new wargame, and won. They then went and got the core of their actual navy destroyed.

Any argument like this in favor of the F35 is very dubious. You're talking about the F35 allegedly defeating older technology with radar, stealth, and missiles. Yow know what will win using radar, stealth, and missiles? Drones. Who might suddenly show up to a battlefield with a lot of drones?
This, along with the equally draconian practice of shadowbanning, really ought to be ceased.
It's trust. Over time you learn to trust the HN headlines for accuracy. Editorialization leads to overhyping junk articles for clicks.
well being from what would be considered that 1% of india - I can assure you I didn't live in an enclave where I didn't have access to the "real world" around me.

Getting back to the actual point - quality of life is highly subjective and the fact that there's a strong reverse brain drain happening makes it pretty obvious that there's plenty good opportunities in India right now - educated Indians dont need to go abroad for a good life. Sure there maybe differences - but after a certain level it doesn't matter anyways. The truth is - there are more people in india (also proportionally) - who have access to a decent standard of living today - than there were at any point in its history - and for most Indians thats pretty good already.

More importantly - what you misunderstood by focusing on just that one statement is that - the economic difference is just not attractive enough that companies can ignore the softer aspects. Especially for a country like Germany where the language barrier is anyways a huge disadvantage - just being economically attractive isn't going to be enough for them to draw people in. In fact - a recent article from a leading german weekly itself states that even after simplifying the visa process (if you have a degree in STEM - you can essentially just come here for 6 months and look for work no questions asked) - there hasn't been any sort of significant increase in the number of qualified people coming here. Anecdotal and personal experience, as well as the numbers clearly then point out that even for people who would maybe want better economical conditions - there's other things that matter more.

When you lose yourself in the statistics and GDP calculations - you miss the bigger picture. People are fine with living with less money in places where they feel happy compared to places where they dont feel at home, especially if the difference in the money is not percieved to be significant enough.
Thanks... I appreciate the explanation. It's kind of what I thought.

I still don't quite understand how I can cancel out the carrier. I have an incoming signal, that includes the backscatter.

Do I average out the signal to get the carrier, use that averaged signal to cancel out the non-averaged signal - ending up with a version of the signal, and then apply a filter to this signal (to remove anything else that is causing weaker back scatter/multi-path interference), and hope that the intentional back scatter survives?
Let us not forget that it doesn't always work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXcTFfV3Ls

(DC-X crash at 2:10)
If we stick to "economics" without even going to "well-being," I think median net worth is the best bet. But you know, governments find it easier to "book" corporate profits as part of GDP and call it a day.
This is the "lisp machine" equivalent:

http://alex.nisnevich.com/ecmachine/
Ages of the Revolution: How Old Were They on July 4th, 1776
We should maybe be a bit careful with competitive nationalist rhetoric. Japan has US military bases; it is in some loose sense an occupied nation. It's doing reasonably ok because we let it. (Imagine if the US had Chinese military bases, for "protection".) Japan is naturally kept from being too independent, but may be treated fine if obedient. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forces_Japan)

On the dissident end, it's common knowledge that Japan's weakness has been overstated. Left Business Observer interviewed Fingleton (http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S130530), and Chomsky often mentions it.

(Never dug into the motivation though.)
27 years old, have not owned a car since 2008 when I sold my childhood dream car.

I'll buy it again, exactly the same model but it will be as purely a hobby car never as my main form of transport.

The numbers just don't add up for me to drive every day.
I've never had this happen to me in London (and I've cycled a lot.) The video I saw on http://ipayroadtax.com when I first heard about the campaign was northerners shouting at each other (I can't find it now - an older couple shouting "no pay, no say!" out the window.)
To be fair, there's (probably) two forks too many: awk can do filtering on regular expressions too.

Not that I think it really makes much of difference in most cases.
Well, most of the valgrind errors should be repetitions, so I would say there are probably 5000 error or so.

It is a great idea to use Valgrind or other automatic tools(we make our own), but it is really hard when you had already developed a project without it.

Going from 507,326 errors to 507,325 or 507,310 is not very motivating(0.000029% progress).
It's similar for Scotland's rural routes. Some councils don't have the funding to maintaining their roads properly, so they focus on the important roads. It can be quite jarring crossing from one area to another.
Very cool. I will check it out. Have an upvote!
The problem is not so much GDP, as it is to measure the economy in one float. So GDP is a somewhat good measure, if you want a quick handle on production capacity, for standard of living something like purchase parity median income is better, but tells you nothing about relative strength of exports, etc...
Uncensored, and post Ada Initiative: Sex +/- Drugs for hackers
If you're naive, that's a misleading article
I wish the internet could actually solve high unemployment.
The Honeywell H316 - one of the first home computers
Random blocks when waiting for entropy. Urandom is "unblocking random" and will return strictly predictable results when the pool becomes drained enough.
It was a great idea in the 80s, or even in 1995 when I tried it out myself. A lot of those ideas were cherry picked by people like Dave Thomas (OTI) into what later became IBM Smalltalk/Java VisualAge and eventually...Eclipse. Ya, the real world is a bit messier and no one has brought images over BECAUSE we couldn't make them work in practice, but 95% of the ideas have been transferred.

I find what Bracha is doing in NewSpeak to be much more interesting and up to date with modern times. Just rehashing a 20 year old interface and putting it in the web is great from a retro perspective, but it doesn't move us forward at all.

It is high time to move out of Smalltalk's shadow.
Everyone who isn't listened to is, in their own mind, really good ;)
I practice advanced driving[1] when cycling, which means taking my lane and making cars move over for me. It helps that I accelerate faster than most cars out of traffic lights and then tuck in to the left past the junction.

(It works almost all the time, just don't ever try it with a London Taxi, they'll kill you.)

[1] http://www.iam.org.uk/
In Australia, car registration fees predominantly go towards paying compulsory insurance which funds common law/no fault motor accident victims.

The roads/infrastructure costs are paid for by fuel taxes.

So really, if people get upset about cyclists' right-to-road access, then they should also be upset about electric car drivers, and to a lesser extend, hybrid drivers!

I'm actually curious what will happen when Tesla start selling vehicles in Australia. These are very heavy vehicles - they will absolutely impact the roads, yet will be essentially using them "for free" - no fuel tax being paid.
You're lucky. In a similar situation but in the city, to quote what one said to me: "I'll stab you the fuck up" and pulled a kitchen knife out.

Police did sod all as well.
It will close the whole account down after 30 days. If you log in during that time it will reactivate it.
If you use web2py then you never have security problems.
Almost all roads are maintained by council tax, which is genuinely separate from Vehicle Excise Duty which goes to the treasury. The highways agency roads (mostly A roads and motorways) are usually not safe for/used by cyclists anyway.
Which is weird because the great opportunities are based on recommendations almost only. Someone pulls you somewhere, you pull someone to you. You match a friend with another friend in trouble.

I have yet to see (in IT) someone that get great job by the standard interview process.

Also not all persons in a relationship feel guilty of that.
> I realised that, though I was typing the digits of the new PIN, I was subvocalising the digits of my old PIN.

I trained myself to do this on purpose; subvocalising a different number. If I'm drugged out in a hospital bed and someone asks for my CC PIN, I want them to get an incorrect number.
The difference between statistical modelling and machine learning is that the first aims to make models that have a "right" accuracy on a given data-model complexity balance while the second those that work well on "unseen data".
Thus if you use AIC to find best subset of variables for a linear model its statistical modelling, but if you use cross-validation for the same purpose it is machine learning (while, to be honest, both ideas are wrong).
I had also noticed this and commented on it in another HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6145932

"Show me all the VPN startups in country X, and give me
the data so I can decrypt and discover users."

Can someone explain this bit to me please? I read this as:

1) The NSA have a list of companies (grouped by country),
which analysts can 'target' for further inspection.

2) The NSA can 'decrypt' that encrypted data.

3) The NSA can 'discover' users.

2) and 3) are weird and scary. This suggests that VPN traffic is not secure at all. It also suggests that they can target specific users exiting at that VPN provider. There is nothing stated about restrictions on particular VPN protocols, suggesting that all are decryptable. Hence, OpenVPN could be also as vulnerable as PPTP and L2TP/IPSEC.

To me this suggests that VPN's provide no privacy value against NSA spying.

How have other people interpreted this slide?

@thepackrat comments suggested that:

"By VPN startups, they mean initiation of a VPN session.
Specifically, this means they can grab the credentials
at the beginning of a PPTP VPN session, and then decrypt
it. PPTP has been known to be vulnerable to this sort of
attack for some time."

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148869)

It still isn't clear which types on VPN are vulnerable and which are safe. Based on the fact that the slides didn't specify VPN protocols that we all know are vulnerable (i.e. PPTP), one has to assume that they all possibly are.

Here is another possibility:

- The NSA might just have 'catch all' filters where
VPN's exit.

- Using the data from this you could match up traffic
which leak the user's identity.

- Hence, I use a VPN that exits in London. I have
specific browser signatures that can help to isolate
my traffic.

- I visit Facebook using that VPN. That action has now
leaked my identity. I now start searching for how to
make a pressure cooker bomb. Bam, you're on the
'potential terrorist' list and identified via your
matched traffic.
That's nothing like Symbolics Genera. Genera is amazing in so many ways, even how it does command line completion.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system) for some basic info on what a Lisp Machine was like...
Just wait until you find yourself having no longer access to your statements. NAB can't even run a simple query that looks further back in time than 3 months. Oh, you can get a printed statement for which you will have to pay.

NAB is a freaking disaster and I strongly recommend anyone to stay from these bozos.
It definitely is in this case though.
How about creating your own business?
But why -v ? Wouldn't just:

command curl # optionally 2> /dev/null
# but there really shouldn't be any
# output -- so any error you probably
# want to see...

do what's intended (exit with non-zero return if curl isn't available as a command)?

[edit: Because command runs the command by default, it outputs info with -v!. So if the command does something by default (eg: command halt) -- then:

command halt #halts!
command -v halt #outputs something like /sbin/halt

Whops.]
Ajenti -  the web admin panel everyone wants
combined costs of Vehicle Excise Duty (car tax) and the extra tax added to petrol ("gas") is phenomenal in the UK, to the extent that I keep getting invites to facebook groups of real ordinary non-political people "campaigning"[1] to have them lowered. Both of these taxes go into central government funding.

[1] i.e. sitting on facebook being angry together..
I think it's not really putting words in the submitters mouth since

A. We all know it happens.
B. It's replacing it with the actual title written by the author. It can't be confused with words written by the OP.

Personally no rule is perfect and simple things like just changing it can work. We all know or quickly learn the rule.

It could be worst like reddit style where the titles have collapsed and are consistently emotive/sensational/misleading to get the clicks.
I'd like to see go compared to netty as well. Is there a good place for this kind of thing, SO obviously doesn't care for it.
> they can reduce your security to the weakest generators you're using.

> and can introduce potential weaknesses.

This isn't true. XORing numbers can never decrease entropy. It can only increase it. So your security would stay at the strongest generator, plus some extra entropy from the weaker ones.
This is pretty common for how Emotiv presents itself. If you look through their site and write ups about their Epoc headset, you'll find the same kind of overhyped and misleading information.

It's cool that home BCI is so cheap now, I just wish they weren't trying to captilize so heavily on it.
Yea I think I could go the BitCoin way with these machines. I've read about bitcoin but never started.

About clusters and own cloud, I've enough dose at work, with better hardware :-)

The honeypot road also I think could be a fun project. Thanks.
Perhaps, as Zed Shaw suggested once, look for an interesting field where your software development skills are a value add rather than the main attraction. The icing on the cake if you will :-)

It could be a question of environment too: I currently work in a very large place with a lot of process and a huge mix of abilities and motivations. Code quality takes a bit of a second place to "build what can make money right now", elegance and beauty are even further behind that. I was much happier in my work as part of a small fast moving team.

TL;DR Perhaps if you find a different environment or a different focus you can get you spark back an re-connect with your passion.
The problem is how is it sustainable.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”
– Henry Ford
This is way better then Yun, IMO. Yun is an awkward design, I find very few reasons they had to put an 8-bit AVR and AR9 on one board. WTF. I really like this solution with a beefy LPC18xx and CC3000, it's totally cool by me.
The programs in question were not manually seeding the RNG, as was patio11's suggestion. The app implementors in this case don't seem to have actually done anything wrong at all.
Alternative suggestion: Its scarily common to see reporting chains that look like this:

Dev -> Dev Group Lead -> Dev Director -> Engineering Director -> Single Product VP -> Multi Product VP -> Product Range SVP -> Market Sector SVP -> C-Level Exec.

You can start to see where there is fat to be trimmed... Or in sales:

Account Manager -> Area Sales Mgr. -> Regional Sales Mgr -> Regional Sales Director -> VP Regional Sales -> SVP Market Sector -> SVP EMEAR -> SVP World -> C-level Exec.

It boggles the mind.
Welcome to Silicon Valley eh?
I can only speak from the people I've met personally, but:

Older people are worried that all of Japans 'gijyutsu' is going to China now (which literally means, art, or craft, but basically they mean, all making-new-stuff skills are going to china now). Especially the retired folk seem really concerned about it.

Young people complain like crazy they can't get decent jobs.

I think you'd be hard pushed to find someone who are generally speaking positive about the Japanese economy over there.

I certainly didn't encounter anyone (Japanese) who was positive about it when I was there (a year ago now), or met anyone who has been here since.

It'd be pretty interesting to see some japanese news paper / blog sentiment analysis work and see how wide spread that goes in general. You could probably use kanji as a pretty decent marker (negative words tend to make common elements, etc). hm...
dl.google.com handles all the downloads for google chrome, factory images for android, eclipse.. not exactly tiny and especially not insignificant

complex web app:
Cloudfare https://www.cloudflare.com/railgun
BBC http://www.quora.com/Go-programming-language/Is-Google-Go-re...
Soundcloud http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/
...actually, I would say that people paid for hand wavy nonsense about a general purpose pipe for applications, and instead got a Twitter clone. :P

I love app.net, but I never use it; brass tacks, most people are still on Twitter (which is itself a small player compared to Facebook). I'm rooting for Caldwell and I applaud what he's going for, but it's going to take some very clever disruption and/or pivoting to unentrench or sidestep the social momentum of Facebook and Twitter (even Google with its billions isn't really cracking that nut). Federation would be the best approach; it's just a shame that that the nuances of social networks make it a much tougher problem than with email or the web.

One potential path might be to integrate with hardware and offer some sort of "self-hosted identity as a service", an encryption-heavy digital break-out box that provided web, email, distributed social network, Dropbox-style app integration, etc. The initial buyers would the people nervous about recent spying revelations, but if the UX was compelling enough, it might have enough other consumer benefits to cross over. I can dream, anyway. :)
I think you meant "your".
I agree with the sentiment expressed in this post, and also think that in some cases more descriptive titles are more than welcome. Maybe we could add a rule that the description has to be in square brackets (like [video] or [scribd]).
As far as I can tell, my title was shorter and still more accurate than the article's title.

Really? Because I had no idea what the original title was referencing, whereas the new title gave an accurate summary.
Bullshit, I think it's pretty nice at least as a proof of concept. Although the Electric Imp is more clever design with it's user space VM, but Squirrel is still a bit of a oddity to me...
So it seems that the problem here is one field trying to do two jobs.

It would take a change to the way things are presented, but what about having a title that is the same as the original article, and then another line -- a subtitle, if you will -- that (optionally) can contain the poster's rationale for contributing the link.

In this case it could be:

Civil Disobedience

<small>David Byrne on Aaron Swartz</small>
WebGL was already enabled. I doubt the Cg compiler would have thrown an error if it weren't, anyway!
Squeak is a easy way to learn Smalltalk.
Unreviewed code in the 3.11 kernel
It's a shame that they decided to run back this same approach for the F-35.
smalltalk is so dead nowadays that I see no point wishing to move out of it's shadow.
A lot of research has been done from it, many different languages have proven to be more interesting from many aspects etc etc no need to argue about that.

The good thing about bring it back to life is for educational purpose, as, unlike many other research, smalltalks tended to have more complete and mature development environment, and I believe it might be inspiring get a feel of how to do things that way, I doubt any kid today will be inspired by doing something on vxworks
Alon Levy thinks that anybody that is not a 'transportation engineer' should stick to minding their own business. His agenda is shining through pretty strong here...

I did not claim Levy is a transportation engineer

You at least very strongly implied it. What did you mean his agenda was then, if he isn't a transportation engineer? If his agenda was that non transportation engineers should mind their own business, why would he be commenting on the math and engineering of it? That's not a coherent reading of what he said.
Colour confinement
Blimey! I'm glad you weren't hurt during the confrontation.

I didn't bother notifying them, they never do anything in situations like that. I bet most police officers believe the same as normal citizens, "no pay, no say".
Probably none.

KSP was mentioned to Elon in some post-talk Q&A session - he hadn't heard of it and seemed unimpressed.
Super double-secret squirrel sources have said there exists a file "nsa_does_fixnum.rb" which is 1006 bytes long and the SHA512 hash of 896e12642f5720d830572a8b11e4c729da3a20c57402758d22a25c46c3c2e6
bb4b09de9030ad591ecb51b8a9a4d4c119cefbf4d51a72db219d94150fb63a 3623. (Concat them -- I broke it into a few lines to avoid breaking the comment page on low-resolution devices.) Our intrepid squirrel didn't get a good look at what it is doing but claims "It doesn't use any external library and doesn't do anything even remotely tricky." They claim that it secretly modifies any Ruby1.8 interpreter to cause 1 + 1 to equal "LOL THIS IS THE NSA" under some circumstances.

Quick ig1, you are freedom's last, best hope. Write actual computer code which can, by adding numbers together and inspecting their output, determine whether your Ruby interpreter has been compromised by the NSA. You're lucky, since the NSA has already shipped their exploit (or did they?), they can't modify it in response to your detection code. Bad news, though: if your detection code fails and an interpreter which includes the backdoor can, after passing your detection code, still get the wrong answer for 1 + 1, an innocent user fails to find the backdoor and suffers a FatalHitByCruiseMissileError. You don't get to say "OK, so in hindsight, now that I see the backdoor addressing it was pretty darn easy. Mop up the mess and I'm sure to win round two."
A wonderful proposal and inspiring: I think the air bearing, partially evacuated tube and axial flow compressor powered by onboard battery are an innovative combination worth exploring, and I am sure with the correct leadership and political will could produce a really useful enhancement of transport infrastruture. However on reading many of the comments bemoaning current state of construction in the US, as well as unions and vested interests; had to provide this quote of Machiavelli's:
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.