skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We’re intimately familiar with OSINT needs and deliverables, and we will deliver the Deep Web Intelligence that finds the bad guys and lets you get them behind bars."

Deep Web Intelligence? via Twitter? This sounds pretty delusional. Is the average criminal really twittering information about their crimes? Kids these days..
If you have the ability to install a keylogger that can hijack a user session, what prevents you from capturing the SSH key of the user?
The internet is lousy with information about Windows Chrome. OSX seems to be incorrect for no good reason. (I do note that WebKit seems to be the culprit here. Safari behaves the same way.)
there is no way to turn that sleep on closed lid feature.

Are you even trying? The first google result I clicked on has a way to do it: http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/10/run-macbook-with-lid-closed-w...

(And what does "star a download" mean?)
I've read Rorty on this subject before, and the paper you linked to gives a good illustration of why, although I understand where he's coming from, I don't agree with him. He says:

"Redemptive truth would not consist in theories about how things interact causally, but instead would fulfill the need that religion and philosophy have attempted to satisfy. This is the need to fit everything--every thing, person, event, idea and poem--into a single context, a context which will somehow reveal itself as natural, destined, and unique. It would be the only context that would matter for purposes of shaping our lives, because it would be the only one in which those lives appear as they truly are."

He appears to think this is possible; I think it's a dangerous illusion. I don't think there is any one, single context in which our lives "appear as they truly are". Our lives are too complex for that.

In fact, physics is too, although Rorty doesn't seem to realize that. He says that scientific inquiry could conceivably terminate; apparently he thinks that physicists who talk about a "theory of everything" mean that once we've found it, we won't need to do science any more. That's a dangerous illusion too. No matter how much we discover about the universe, there will always be more to discover, and that's what scientific inquiry is.

Furthermore, even with the stuff we do know in science, there is always the possibility of finding new ways to look at it. Feynman once said that every theoretical physicist who is any good knows multiple theoretical representations for exactly the same physics. Each representation is useful in its own way, and no one of them reflects "the way things really are". Even putting them all together doesn't necessarily reflect "the way things really are". All of our knowledge is incomplete, even in physics.

And if that's the case for physics, it's the case even more so for ourselves and our societies. We should not expect to ever be able to understand ourselves using one single context, any more than we can understand physics using one single context. And as Rorty describes it, the search for this one single context by intellectuals (which he defines, reading between the lines, as people who can afford to waste time in such pursuits because they don't have to do any productive work to make a living) is, in my opinion, a sad waste of human talents that could be put to better uses.
Totally irrelevant. Windows isn't a cloud OS and the behavior is changed. And, it's much more likely that people want a local account.
First: I'm a teenager, if that matters.

I agree with you that ISP protection wouldn't be a good way, I secretly think Cameron just uses this as an excuse for something else (who knows).

- I think the parents should decide what is good and bad for their children. My parents are very liberal at this because they know that I have more knowledge about that field than they would ever acquire (voluntary ;).

It's clear that nowadays you're not able to forbid the online world to a socially normal teenager or even some kids. So you have to show them what the risks are and you should escort your kid while playing online games, introducing them to the www.

You should also be aware that teenagers are able to evaluate the situation properly (most of the time). if your children are well-bred they know how to behave, even in the online world. You should just remind them sometimes that the online world is not a extralegal or completely mindless room, they have to maintain their manners.

If you cannot escort your kids (I'm not talking about the teenagers yet) it's better to install some blocking mechanisms, so the kids won't accidentally view 4chan's wired subsites or the like, but there's the thing with parenting: you cannot prevent it 100%, so your children should learn how to handle that stuff, too.

The WWW is a great invention, but it contains some dangerous things for kids. You cannot prevent that your kid will see porn or other nasty things, so the only way to handle this is to prepare your child. - it's hard to do good parenting in the 21st century, everything's changing so fast.

hope your kids turn to lovely parents :)
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Should be "start a download".
There needs to be a service where you can just buy/rent a packet with all the essentials. Sim cards are just one of the many things that could come in such a package to save you a lot of time. My GF when she travels has often sought out exchanging used pre-paid SIM cards for the countries she goes to as a way to avoid all the bureaucracy that often surrounds their acquisition. It would be great if you could do this with bank accounts too by simply handing it over to another person. Just withdraw all the money and hand the debit cards and other account information to another person. So long as the bank rules don't allow accounts to go negative, there is no reason to tie identity to bank accounts.

TBH, I've really come to the conclusion that borders are bullshit and I can't wait until they are increasingly viewed as an anachronism like they have come to be viewed within the EU. They create a number of inefficiencies in many many systems and the truth is that the only necessary system that really needs them to function under the current model is taxation to support public infrastructure within a region. However, even that can be solved by only taxing everything that is immobile, such as land, buildings, businesses that need to exist in a certain physical location for prosperity, such that both those that live in a place and those that visit a place, pay directly for the use of all the public services in that place via the infrastructure that accommodates them (places to sleep, eat, work and be entertained).
No problem, email away :)
Unless your MS account is shut down.
>Most academics tend to self-host preprints, or stick them on arXiv so the publisher as a hosting service isn't really the "value-add" offered.

That is not true for chemistry or biology. Tell them what arXiv is and they will say, huh?
Well, Israel also has nuclear subs.
Many authors in physics, mathematics and others post a pre-print version of their papers to http://arxiv.org/.
The best way to do meaningful work while living as a digital nomad is to contribute to open source. IRC, mailing lists and Github issues provide all the conversation and decision making infrastructure necessary to make the same architectural choices needed to build something with the same level of substance and depth as any project being tackled in an office environment.
"You must realize that there is absolutely no way for any middle eastern country to build arsenals and delivery platforms formidable enough to replicate the Soviet stance."

Why bother replicating the Soviets? You flip flop from building multiple soviet naval carriers to the concept of nuclear arms in general, which is hard to read.

The delivery vehicle of the future is COTS shipping containers for inland cities, "anything that floats" for coastal cities.

You have to realize this is not 1900 anymore. World trade means that part of the world ships out millions of barrels of oil per day. Not literally inside individual barrels, but you might be surprised. And as the illegal drug trade and the illegal alien invasion shows, the US borders are basically wide open. No need for hollywood plots when UPS / fedex / DHL / USPS will do just as well.

Always think outside the box. More than a dozen years ago, how would Saudi Arabia knock down skyscrapers in NYC? That's insanity, they'd have to launch cruise missiles or build a battleship and successfully park it off the coast of NYC, or invade overland with bulldozers or something. The actual solution turned out to be a somewhat simpler social engineering hack against existing hostage rescue procedures.

So send out a fleet of 100 "fishing boats" to all the major ports. Each with innumerable radios to communicate with each other. And (at least) one capable of going boom.

Yes, I think the odds of someone replicating the USSR .mil, holodeck style, and then actually pressing the button are somewhat minimal. On the other hand, the odds of someone actually trying something equally effective are pretty good.

For a political statement, a nation could make it very clearly demonstrated you have, say, a dozen. "Yo, Bush the Third, err, I mean, Obama, pick a number between 1 and 12" and then some desert gets zapped. Then ship a disarmed, shut off one to a high value target via USPS or any other service. It'll cost two working models and you need perhaps a dozen packed up and well hidden to be effective. I would imagine the reaction would never be declassified, and I'll be surprised if it hasn't already happened.
"These powers left and left behind democratic governments."

What?
It would be great if MIT Tech Review dropped its political agenda and just, you know, reported on technology.

These "rich-getting-richer" addresses may actually be held by businesses, and the reason they are gaining more links and BTC is because more people are storing their BTC with that business.

The study doesn't provide nearly enough evidence or context to justify MIT Tech Review's politically-loaded rhetoric. There are ways to report on the Bitcoin network without mucking it up with divisive classist rhetoric.
The campaigning for federal reserve chairman has been unprecedented. President Obama I am sure promised Summers the position for some of the water he and Christina Romer carried; however, since President Obama signaled Bernanke's position will not be renewed, the sharks started to circle and we have the current situation.
What an extraordinarily unbacked statement.
> Why would it be asinine?
Seriously, so what if they have nukes? Simply having them doesn't mean you can use them.
After all, that's what the Cold War demonstrated. If you're going to use them, you have to use them in numbers great enough to wipe out every city in every nation opposing you

That's not true. The U.S. bombing of Japan demonstrated that you can use nuclear weapons in conventional war as long as the other side doesn't have any (or doesn't have very many). That's a good reason to have lots of nuclear weapons on hand against other countries that might have just a few.
I can totally relate. I'm living in SF now and previously lived in both Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Both SF and SP have the issue that going out always costs a lot of money and time, whereas in RJ, it was fast and cheap to spend time with friends.
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Thanks for the info! It's helpful ... but looks like IE and Opera still don't respect this.
Well, there is vacation, and there is "digital nomadism" that kristian and bartek are talking about.

If you go for holidays, you can tuck away your laptop and just rest, but if you plan a year long work&life scenario where you work remotely from another country, your productivity matters.
I had the same thing happen to me while interviewing for the position I hold currently.

I had gotten through 6 interviews without a hitch. They were all culture related, personality-based, "how will you fit with our team" type. Young, scrappy kind of team, who didn't believe in big corporation-type interviews.

Well, the interview in question came. I'm a rockstar when it comes to interviews. I'm personable, confident, funny, and I carry myself really well in conversation. But what was different?

The guy I interviewed with previously held a position with Microsoft.

And he did things the Microsoft way.

I'm nothing but a loose guy. I don't have the college education to back me. I hadn't worked on any famed projects. I didn't commit to open-source projects, have a network to vouch for me. I had a few side projects, but they were nothing more than me just building things. I owned a few companies in my mid-late teens that sold for a good amount of money, but nothing I'd write home about. I'm a utility player that can wear many hats: front-end, back-end, sysadmin, marketing, advertising, copywriting, legal stuff, financials, client management, databases... I don't do any one thing particularly well (except for maybe back-end) but I do all of them pretty damn good.

And when I heard this guy was from MSFT I thought "well this is going to suck." Why? Because I thought that he may not care that I'm as scrappy as I am.

The position I was applying for wasn't anything specific. It was just that utility player. I wasn't expected to write gobs of code, I wasn't expected to manage systems. I was just expected to do what was asked of me, and take ownership of it.

So the interview began. He asked me some really, really low-level questions. Questions that you'd be asked on an exam if you're a CSCI major at MIT. I had no idea how to answer them, so I tried to explain them high-level and ignore the fact he wanted low-level answers.

That got me nowhere except him thinking down on me.

When it came down to me writing code, I just blanked. He wanted me to write a class for a shopping cart and he wanted to see how I'd apply a coupon code, how I'd manage the items in the cart, how I'd sort and group them together, etc. It lasted all of five minutes when I just disconnected from the internet, took the battery out of my phone, and sat there.

I suffer from crippling anxiety, and this was no exception. I've learned how to manage it better since, though.

About twenty minutes after my meltdown I emailed the CEO of the company. I was in tears, because I wanted the job so badly, and I explained that to him. I said that the guy was an asshole, really belittling, and didn't reflect the values of those who I had spoke with prior.

I still got the job, and I'm still with them today. It's the butt of a lot of the jokes we have with our team of five. "Josh, is this someone you'd consider hanging up on?" or "Well it's okay, because Josh once hung up on someone that was interviewing him. Thus, this isn't that bad in comparison!"

Damn right I take it like a champ.
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Yup. The rent in Rio de Janeiro is high, but you can really enjoy yourself at night for less than $20
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...which is a talk page, without an actual article. And it's a very long discussion/argument.

I'm not sure a better example of wikipedia could be found.
Yup (on a Thinkpad x220 + Arch), although I had to configure it. The ACPI daemon provides hooks, so you can run commands on certain events like "laptop lid close" or "power button pressed". I just added a single line to "pm-suspend" for those events. More info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid

Honestly, I think it's dependent on the laptop hardware and distro though. I imagine Ubuntu has it working out of the box for most hardware.
You are mistaken. He is, in actual fact, a scientist. Ridley has a DPhil degree in zoology from Oxford, and he's a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley
Though the source is available, it cannot be used for commercial purposes.

https://z3.codeplex.com/sourcecontrol/latest#LICENSE.txt

You may not redistribute the source on a website intending to teach the use of Z3 for commercial purposes.

You also agree that MS can sell any modifications or derivative software that you produce.
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C++ gives you fine grained control over the machine, which is something these fields often need (I am in the computer vision/AI segment). When you are using Intel Intrinsics, MKL, etc., just to get enough performance to barely do the job, you can't afford to throw that control away to garbage collection, reference counting, and all that. I use higher level languages for the things they are great for - the 'batteries included' features of Python, for example, or the functional+high availability of Erlang. And they are great languages for what they are designed to be used for.

Not every C/C++ programmer (I say with considerable understatement) is an obsolete, corporate hack unaware of the state of the art in computer languages and tools. We wrote your compilers, your languages, your VMs, your toolsets, your OS, your math libraries, your, well, you get the idea :)
It's neat that they got access to the firehouse (most likely licensing it from gnip) but geolocation is still an issue. Only a small percentage of Twitter users turn on geolocation. Last count I heard was under 10%.
Worth noting that these are diesel-electric submarines that may have nuclear armed cruise missiles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin-class_submarine
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Quite a few, 10+ for word documents at least. I have no idea if its possible to revert all files, that would be a good function to have in the interface.
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"The real risk is false alarms,"

The real risk is false flag ops. Say Tel Aviv vaporizes tomorrow and no one takes responsibility. Who do we nuke? They'll be demands we blast "somebody" of course. As everyone knows, the enemy of the day would probably be Iran. Now the Iraqis have no great love of the Iranians, so the logical thing for any upwind country to do, is when they obtain a special weapon, use it to frame a downwind country that's known to be further along the process than they are.

I believe this is a major part of the motivation for the Iranians to build their own nukes. Obviously their neighbors benefit by framing them, so their only hope is to build a deterrent force before they get framed.

Who benefits if Pakistan and India degenerated into a limited nuke war? Well whoever that is, is somewhat likely to want to encourage it, which wouldn't take much.

This is the hidden danger of the US/Russia MAD scenario, we could take onesie-twosie potshots at each other with no retribution because someone else would be blamed (probably China) The fact this fairly likely scenario hasn't played out is pretty interesting.
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Would it make sense to somehow record what was audited and by who, in "machine readable format"? Something that would allow others to later check how much the audited parts of code (or code that the audited part is relying) have changed since the audit.

Could be for example just a simple message "Audited, file: aaa/xyz.c, checksum 3ea1b.. revision 1c030.." signed with auditors public key.
My fatherland "The Netherlands" does also have these techniques in their police systems. If people start/organize a riot/fight using twitter (mostly after soccer games), they easily see this.
Is it even legal to prohibit teaching something due to copyright infringment?
You may be right, though I was around then and don't remember anyone referring to it as the web (information superhighway does come to mind though; ugh). In any case, as used in the post (and colloquial usage), I'd still stand by my comment.
>huge, dysfunctional, and bankrupt (USSR).

And the USA, to be fair.
oh i see what you are saying - you create account at the spot where they are asking you to logon. I never clicked that as I have several accounts. Still it is very hostile UI as is pointed out. I'm not making up fud and if you look at my profile I'm no karma whore.
My takeaway from the article was that the cognitive overload of being in a new environment was at least as big a factor in not being able to handle meaningful work (that is to say, challenging work that forces you to grow) as the logistics.

But what you suggest has merit and I'd be interested to hear what the nomads' take on it is.
This is really the major issue. "Growth" in the sense of "increase in actual production" is going terrific (granted, mostly by virtue of "Copper is practically the new oil - reserves, especially easy to access them" matters). What isn't going so great is the second part of "We should be careful with that and funnel it back into the national economy. Pay to play - the copper and other metals are only there once and we know what they are worth".

You can't really grow forever, but you can still grow and they do. But this is sort of like the early oil rush in the midwest. Oh wow, holy crap, people will give us 25 cents a barrel for crude! And we don't even have to dig it up, they'll even come over and do it! How cool is that?!? Uhh, not that cool when you were sitting on top of oil reserves the size of saudi arabia that are now all but bone dry with some entrepreneurial farmers pumping up a few barrels for a slight short term profit.

The main law that seems to be missing everywhere is "X amount stays here. No really. Invest whatever you want, but a certain part of the gained value is stuck in the local economy and another chunk is paid to locals because OUR HOUSE".
The Blackberry 8800 fits this description.
I think opposition started with Scott Sumner in July. http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=22379
Very good news.
I expect to see the markets react tomorrow, ala balmer on a much greater scale.
There are some extra adjectives in there, maybe, but it's really not that bad.

Translation: "Maybe the self is not the unitary thing we normally consider it to be. But how can that be possible? For example, if it has multiple parts, couldn't we just say that only one of those parts is the self? Where does the multi-faceted nature come from? Is it merely the grammatical division between subject and object -- are there two selves in the sentence 'I affect myself'?" Etc.

I agree that the writing is a little silly (that parenthetical should be its own sentence), but it's partly because the ideas are just pretty hard to think about.
I guess, we should not believe google anymore.. I had built this little website that uses google's shopping api - http://www.shoop.in/ .. All effort wasted, I should have seen what was coming..
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I think it might make sense to put a little bit more of a description as to what the site does... What kinds of things does it let you discover? it seems like outdoorsy stuff?

I might assume a site with a name like nomly would find me new places to eat
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Ah, thanks for the answer. I was mostly curious since i work with things where algorithms need to perform in realtime, so even a factor of 2-3 is unacceptable.
173 days here: https://github.com/pkulchenko; haven't pushed today's changes yet...

I like the fact that sometimes you don't have time to start something complex, but find small improvements or documentation updates that can be made.