skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a script for linux:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/index.php?p=/dis...
It's more than just matrices, though. For instance, I have a little library that propagates uncertainty for me. Without operator overloading, I'm back to descending into the rpn hole from my example.

Another poster pointed out unit analysis. I've done this before with custom types that keep track of the units on measurements.

Since you mentioned parallelization, that's another fun toy I've played with. By overloading the operators for an object that defines a snippet of OpenCL code, it's possible to push these snippets through pre-existing functions and have it return a final OpenCL function. You then call that returned function on your arrays of data to run everything through your GPU with just three lines of code changes from the sequential.

Operator overloading is more than just adding matrices. It's a powerful technique that comes in handy almost any time that you're working heavily with numerical data. Of course, it's also dangerous as hell in the wrong hands. The code for the OpenCL example was actually some pretty terrible code that did extremely non-intuitive things during value comparisons.
Even more unlikely: the SEA itself could be a false flag operation... At a risk of putting on a tinfoil hat some of the Syrian activity as of late seems mighty convenient, practically an invitation to a couple of cruise missiles or something with similar effects.

For all I know this is genuine but it is very hard to be 100% sure of anything like this as an outside observer. It wouldn't be the first time false flag operations were used to create sympathy in the populace for some war or to demonize a party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident (disputed)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
Here is a pre-configured VM:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/index.php?p=/dis...
Mind meld? Scientist uses his brain to control another guy's finger
Sure. Which one would you rather have? Pain or death?
I'm not claiming the hack isn't genuine.
There's no leverage needed, unless you're thinking that the NSA would rather send G-men to disappear the senior staff or something, instead of simply getting a FISA warrant for the hopefully-rare cases where Facebook has reason to push back against an NSL. But Facebook has always claimed they will comply with the law, and the law is very much slanted to the U.S. already, there's not much extra leverage needed.

NSA is undoubtedly not even the only source of these requests either (e.g. many might come from FBI investigating purely "home-grown" extremists, local cops following up on Amber Alerts, etc.), and the non-NSA ones would already have had an Article III warrant issued, which Facebook has always claimed they will obey.

From their FAQ: "The vast majority of these requests relate to criminal cases, such as robberies or kidnappings." and "The report contains the total number of requests we've received from each government, including both criminal and national security requests."

However, even if we ignore all that other nations have their own forms of leverage... it would certainly be easier to unilaterally block Facebook in other countries than in the U.S., for instance.
Sure, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise, but correctly evaluating the situation is still important. The cost/benefit does require evaluating the benefits, and the benefits actually play into the costs as well. If being sedentary is harmful and standing all day isn't a good solution, then it would be harmful to adopt a standing desk instead of exercising.

For my part, my week with a standing desk just led to upper back pain (which is not unusual for me, but I am generally able to avoid).
Wall Street Journal Kicks The New York Times While It’s Down
Make sure there are spaces on both sides. Asterisk: * (plain asterisk surround by spaces). Italics: foo ('foo' surrounded by asterisks).
Bitcoin currently has a tiny market cap (1.3 B USD) compared to USD (~6 T). [1] Average BTC transaction volume is around $35 M USD/day or roughly $12 B USD/year. [2] This is comparable to stock market capitalization (57.5 T) to USD (6 T) currency ratio (10x).

If you were a mega kingpin, you'd be forced to use other means of cash washing (art, metals, jewels, etc.). There isn't enough volume in BTC to wash great amounts of money unless something more clever were used (such as using BTC to cover escrow/insurance, but not normally transacted). (Are there black/grey market insurance carriers? I'm guessing there are with %75 confidence.)

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/

[2] http://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-u...
> However, this man set off a bomb detector. He set of the machine that detects bombs, repeatedly. After that event, nothing Mr. Mukerjee reported is particularly surprising, and I would expect to have a similar experience if I set off the same detector.

I wouldn't. My bag often sets off the bomb detector repeatedly; when that happens they just search it and send me on my way. It's no big deal. If the bag sets off the bomb detector repeatedly, the most likely reason for it is that the bag was at one point in contact with some chemical that is related to an explosives precursor. And that's OKAY. It's no big deal. You check whether the bag has explosives in it RIGHT NOW, and if it doesn't, you send the guy on his way!

(FWIW, I think I've triggered due to (a) flash paper (a magician's supply), (b) fireworks (of the safe-and-sane variety). In both cases the offending material wasn't actually present, but it had been IN the bag or IN my clothes in the prior week)
>You pay shit, you get shit.

That's what you say to suckers with your arm around their shoulders. I hope you don't mention that philosophy before you get the quote, because people are willing to sell you shit at any price.
It also doesn't tell you which US Federal, state, or local agency made the request, or whether the request was for simple criminal investigation or for "national security" purposes, both of which are detailed in the FAQ. ;)
amazon referral code in the product link? i guess that's one of the "tricks of the trade"

HN: ADVERTISEMENT
It's not quite that simple because the high prices force the market to remain niche. It may be that the market could become surprisingly large if an affordable commodity version of this were available.
Chromecast-Control a open source python lib to control chromecast
All respectable publications dismiss chiropractors as a whole.
You should get a motorized chair like Dr. Evil.
CODE Mechanical Keyboard
If you're crazy like me and run elasticsearch on Windows, I can't recommend elasticsearch-setup [1] highly enough. Combined with node discovery via the EC2 API [2], it's been rock-solid.

[1] http://ruilopes.com/elasticsearch-setup/

[2] http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/discove...
The Xbee Pro 900 is 50mW, for reference.
I really don't see anything special about this keyboard. It's backlit and mechanical. Seems like it's been done a hundred times already.
Wal-Mart: same-sex partners to get health benefits
If you're motivated / curious enough / have enough time, I recommend Spivak's Calculus as a way of learning calculus the, as you say, 'proper (whatever that means) way.' It's basically a treatment of calculus from the perspective of real analysis, having the 'no ad-hoc rule teaching' policy at its foundation. You prove things, build up a non-fragmented edifice slowly, and end up being introduced to analysis such that you can then pick up other things (it's a rather extensive treatment of calculus indeed.) Or so goes my narrative in the midst of frustrations regarding self-motivating to continue individually progressing through the book. :)

The 3rd and maybe the 4th editions can be found online by doing an internet search for pdf/djvu files.
NS records pointing to Syrian Electronic Army - http://viewdns.info/dnsrecord/?domain=nytimes.com
I tend to be a neat freak when it comes to organizing a desk, and will often have a surge strip velcro'd to the underside of a desk. Industrial velcro & straps are pretty cheap, and can be adjusted pretty easily when moving/relocating equipment. I've been thinking of getting monitor arms, since I am fairly tall, I tend to want my desk lower (at elbow height) and my monitors higher than most will rise up from that height, so that I can actually sit up straight and look forward... I'm pretty heavy so don't think going straight to a standing desk would work as well for me.
So is it really "as meaningful as" comparing healthcare by doctor height?
I agree. I hope WASD starts making custom backlit keycaps though
Now I want to know what the joke was.
I think this is a great topic.

I imagine from the email that they want to install Foo OS and the latest and greatest apps, but they want their desktop and apps to behave like they did under a previous OS.

If they had a great workflow with a previous product and OS then good for them, why break it? Sometimes modern doesn't always mean better. A stupid phone might actually be easier to make calls on.

I see this again and again. Foobar2000 being an example of an app that had many useful features for me. I found it difficult to replace under Linux, even apps that came out years after didn't satisfy my needs. I was even thinking about using it today for adding replay gain to a folder of music. And as such I have it installed under wine.

The other classic example is users forced to transition form WordPerfect to Word. My Dad reckoned he could do everything in WordPerfect (and told me time and time again), and loathed Word with a passion. He'd mastered his tool. And once you have done that, you are reluctant to change. And in that case there wasn't that much of advantage for him in using something else (there may well have been for his sysadmins).

In an ideal world apps would be built with a software interface that you could programmically explore to build your own UIs around, so you could build a UI in a certain style. Then under your distro you could flip a behaviour switch - to emulate an Amstrad desktop say, and Firefox there would just blend in. My gut says that the toolkits used to build apps are too tightly coupled with the code to do so, but that's just a guess.

To get the feel of an OS of old, you'd want to replace your file manager and launchers too. But why not!

I don't know about monetising the idea. There might be a solution for them in using an emulator. Sadly though there are some constraints with older programs, perhaps they don't support newer protocols or lack security patches.
A news site goofing their URLs typically isn't front page news, so at least some people think there's something interesting going on here. (I think they're probably wrong)
Thank you! File hosted on Mega...hah!
Get Prism
Or encrypting the filesystem that the database is stored on.
yes, as a adding note this books teaches enough Java at first to go through the book.
Before you start to quote a recognizable authority on healthcare (i.e. Michael Moore), you may want to read some of the rebuttals of the movie.

Apparently the video was shot at the hospitals that are either used by the ruling class or ex-pats. Most of the hospitals that Cubans have access to don't even have the necessary basic supplies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba#Criticism

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Cuba doesn't do a lot with what they have, but the comparison is simply ridiculous.
At present time: tw is back, nyt returns 500.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc says two leading spaces formats code verbatim:

(-b + math.Sqrt(b*b - 4*a*c)) / (2*a)
http://www.livescience.com/20663-black-white-segregated-neig...

Good day to you sir.
I've found trovebox.com (the openphoto project) to be a simple way to archive pictures as well as auto-upload phone pictures.

And it allows you to switch out storage backends if you want.
What I would really like is a version of the Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard, that is backlit + mechanical. And WIRED, please, I hate wireless keyboards.
Fishy enough that the SEA's own Twitter account is gloating about it?
>As long as there is excess supply, one can buy the supply with newly created money without raising prices

I don't understand how this works in the case of, say, quantitative easing, which released tons of new cash into the economy, while nothing else had fundamentally changed with regard to supply in the economy. By your definition, wouldn't that create rampant inflation?

Or, are you saying that much of that money ended up in the equities market vs. "in the economy" as fresh demand, which allowed supply/demand equlibrium to remain virtually unchanged?
I really can't think of anything good to say about this keyboard. I've used keyboards like this, and I've damaged my body with them. You know what matters a lot more than a backlight? Ergonomic design. Get a Kinesis Advantage instead.
What's it for? Just for fun? Or do they have a particular use case in mind?
No, I was doubting a diagnosis by a chiropractor, and what ensued was a brief debate regarding the merits of chiropractic as a profession.
Chiropractors are notorious for taking X-rays and making diagnoses based off abnormalities they detect, wich they find with alarming regularity (ie bringing into question whether there is an actual abnormality or if they are simply 'anomaly hunting').
Additionally, the symptoms they ascribe to these problems are awfully general and could generally apply to most people, most of the time
I was hoping for a mechanical keyboard laid out like the Microsoft Natural Keyboard. This one looks just like every other mechanical keyboard.
How to manage employees who work from home
Why you should never use pure CSS menus
That is not the situation for most Cubans. Much of my family lives in Cuba, and their experiences aren't so great. It's amazing given the low income of the country, but there really isn't the access to medicine and modern technology that developed countries get.
Why the heck are both Twitter and the New York Times using a in the context small Australian registrar? (MelbourneIT)

edit: looks like MelbourneIT do DNS for a ton of big names. really really weird.
I think 2000 watts is peak, not nomial power.
Yahoo redesigns 7 of its sites
Since he mentions Elon Musk, I just want to point out that this keyboard is about the cost of 1 share of TSLA.
I can testify for the back pain: I used to get almost chronic lower-back (lumbar) pain, but now that I moved to a standing desk the pain has disappeared.
this is about all the Syrian govt can retaliate with. it's not like they can physically reach and stop the USA from attacking them.
A powerful version of this is central to the plot of Gamer (2009).
The "expert" analysis was a bit lame. He brings in an expert pen tester who provides a legal opinion?!
NSA surveillance said to be broader than initially believed
Or, you know, you can build your own house AND keep the cereal in a normal place.
SEA has a history of doing much more than attempting to offset perceived propaganda[1]. With in that site is dozens of gigabytes of logs from Bluecoat[2] proxy hardware that sat in datacenters for Syrian ISPs.

A good amount of what is contained in the logs is things like porn searches, more porn, porn. But amongst the typical naughty bits things like religious queries for Christians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims were being recorded.

Telecomix[3] helped to leak the log-set, and as it stands it is _the_ example of how state entities monitor peoples of 'interest.' Much of these people are long since dead, killed early on as they were the most public[4].

So while the SEA's most public facing events are hijacks, phising, and massive redirects. Please do focus on the end result of pervasive surveillance[5].

[1] http://bluesmote.com/

[2] http://www.bluecoat.com/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Qashoush

[5] http://imgur.com/gallery/qz7wm
Correct, the law(s) was made before the ruling. Sweden still use precedent cases as guides, but they don't decide the law.
This looks like any typical mechanical keyboard, like a DasKeyboard. I don't see what sets it apart?

I have 4 Microsoft Ergo 7000s in case they ever stop making them.
Edit: Turns out they have a variant without the numpad, should have bothered looking for one! So, actually an interesting device. http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/code-87-key-mechanica...

I'd be interested in this if it didn't have a numpad, or maybe a detachable numpad.

I guess everyone has their individual RSI issues, but after experimenting with various devices, I noticed that mine were caused _exclusively_ by that silly old numpad thing I never use anyway. It forced me to place either the keyboard too far to the left or the mouse too far to the right, causing strain in either my left or right hand over time.

I really don't see what use a programmer (or any touch typist) might have for the numpad. I really don't see why they put one on this keyboard.
I'm with you. I need something like the Egro keyboard, or my hands die with pain.

And, because I'm a dork, I'd really like one that has no keys printed on it. [1] But that's just because I like showing off.

[1] http://www.daskeyboard.com/product/model-s-ultimate/
Thanks. I'll definitely check it out.
Your reply also implies there's something wrong with NSA apology, which there shouldn't be intrinsically, as I'm posting an alternative perspective.

Holy carp.
If only they were cheaper :/
CODE Keyboards
> reustle wrote:

> Here's what I get for whois google.com

> GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.HAVENDATA.COM

> ...

> GOOGLE.COM.AFRICANBATS.ORG GOOGLE.COM

> And Microsoft

> MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.IS.A.GREAT.COMPANY.ITREBAL.COM

> ...

> MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN-SERVICE.COM MICROSOFT.COM

Don't be silly. You're simply getting everything that starts with microsoft.com.

So for the first microsoft example that's itrebal.com, they can issue subdomains as many as they want or publish records for subdomains which in turn will cause the whois commands to cough up that information. It assumes that you are searching for some info and helpfully includes everything that it thinks might be applicable.

This trick will give you results for almost any well known domain name and is not indicative of a hack, merely of a slight shortcoming in the way whois records are displayed / queries, the default is a non-exact match.

They're not hacks, they are pranks.

Try this:

whois -h whois.tucows.com microsoft.com

If you're not convinced by the above.
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Has anyone used the foot pedals with the Kinesis Advantage or Advantage Pro? Are they ergonomically recommended?
Steve Ballmer's Microsoft (2012)
> Completely skimming it, the test sites had false positive rates of 0.6 - 1.8%.

In other words, the test is almost completely useless. Given how low the base rate of terrorists sneaking through bombs is, a positive test result on one of these machines is >99.9% likely to be a false positive.

Let's do the math. We'll assume there are never any false negatives and just look at the positive results. Let's simplify "0.6-1.8%" and just call that "1%". Out of 100,000 bags, let's assume that ONE contains a bomb being snuck through by a terrorist. 1/100,000 is our postulated base rate of terrorism. 1/100 is our false positive rate on the test.

So let's put 100,000 bags through the machine. There will be 1,000 false positives and one true positive. which means that if some bag "tests positive for explosives" the odds are a-thousand-to-one against that being a valid result.

"But," I hear you cry, "we RUN IT THROUGH AGAIN when we get a positive result!"

Sure, that would work GREAT if false positive results were COMPLETELY RANDOM. But they're not. More likely than not, the false positive is being triggered by something that is or was actually in the bag. So when you run it again, there's a good chance that it'll trigger again. The "false" part of "false positive" is that the thing in the bag that it's triggering on...isn't an explosive. It's just some other chemical.
...or a Goldtouch Adjustable Comfort keyboard for a slightly less eccentric layout. Even a Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard will treat you better than the world's greatest straight keyboard.
They have an 87-key board

http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/code-87-key-mechanica...
They have it in 104 and 87 key versions (ie with or without a num pad). http://codekeyboards.com/
I'm pretty sure that's unrelated and not a problem. Look at those domain names carefully -- they're not actually at google or microsoft. It's just people exploiting how wildcard search feature works.
Ok, firstly whois Microsoft.com just returns all URLs with Microsoft.com in them, even as a subdomain, so they haven't been hacked and that result has been there for ages. Same goes for Verisign etc.

TechCrunch is reporting that registrar MelbourneIT has been hacked.. This wouldn't surprise me but I'm puzzled as to why either site would register with such a bad registrar.
Other than for very specific ergonomic uses, I honestly don't understand the appeal of a heavy mechanical keyboard; the old IBM buckling-spring Model M keyboard doesn't appeal to me at all. Personally, I do all my work on a ThinkPad keyboard, and I actually have a USB ThinkPad keyboard/mouse for use with non-laptop systems or docking stations. I like the short throw of the keys, I like keys close together (as long as my fingers have room to type, which they do on anything >11" or so), and I like having a mouse on home row.
I believe the trick is to also register the subdomain as an NS server. But yeah, not a hack.
I've been using split keyboards for many years and my wrists have thanked me for it. I get weird looks and people have a hard time using them, but it's worth it.
Looks a lot to me like a rebranded Ducky Shine (http://www.tankguys.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/...).
We built a similar system log-searching system using SenseiDB at LinkedIn. Splunk was outrageously expensive.

It turns out that lucene based systems are pretty good at information retrieval and aren't shackled with all the OLTP requirements most databases have.
Cherry Clear switches, steel backplate and dip-switches for various options such as Mac compatibility...
Don't trust anything you read here, folks...... too many that don't know anything about WHOIS or DNS.....
Mobile Malware
One thing which struck me as strange is the picture.
I mean, don't your hands start to ache when you keep them in air without no place to rest them? (his elbows are hanging in the air, not resing on some solid surface) Personally I can't manage typing comfortably without keeping my elbows at the table.
Both are overvalued?
It might be a good time to take a look at the product page.
A litmus test for your idea
Ouch, I should have bothered actually looking for one instead of going ahead with assumptions, thanks!
How to be reassured I'm reading Hacker News.

1) See an interesting article.

2) Check the first comment to see how any interesting article can be struck down in a few lines
Yahoo's tumblr blog also makes the basic mistake of not linking back to the main website.
OpenDNS blocked the Syrian domains and updated its DNS resolvers to omit them:

https://twitter.com/davidu/status/372482424313110529

Verify at:

http://www.opendns.com/support/cache/
I don't really see the benefit of a backlit keyboard, especially for programming.
Is Netflix killing cable television?
I have the foot pedals. I never use them, because it is so convenient and comfortable to hit Ctrl/Alt with my thumbs. Maybe there are better keys to assign to my foot pedals, but I haven't really thought about it much.
IBM's Watson could get even smarter with Power8 chip
the traceroute for twimg.com end's in russia, I'm right? (141.105.64.37)
A status update now that it's fixed.

http://status.twitter.com/post/59528478030/twitter-service-i....

Kind of dodgy that there was no status update until 1.5 hours after the issue surfaced.
How difficult of a thing is this to pull off?