skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Analytical Machine" doesn't appear as a pre-requisite for "Modern Computer"

People thinking about them helps. You don't need the first people designing computers to have heard of an analytic engine and be working from Babbages notes for there to be dependencies. And it is not as though Babbages work did not have an influence on mathematics and technology in its day, it was widely known and discussed in both academic and political circles, and will have certainly influenced many. It would seem unlikely for the people working on the first working computers to not be drawing on some work that had echoes of the earlier attempts in the field, irrespective of whether the researchers themselves were aware of it.
All of Facebook's servers already operate this way. The network is more sensitive but probably not by much.
You're talking semantics. Sure, the branding is non-free (you can't distribute the same version obviously), but your four freedoms aren't diminished in any way [1].

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
>so if Google can iterate, than why can't Apple?

Google is known for no customer service because you are the product, Apple while not being perfect, it is clear that their users take precedent over advertisers and even developers.
People have also traded the liberty of selling contaminated meat for the security of minimizing deaths due to foodborne pathogens. That trade seems to have worked out well.

People have also traded the liberty of people able to discard carcinogenic industrial waste wherever they please for the security of the world's most reliable potable water delivery systems. That trade seems to have worked out well.

He's right, and you're wrong. The simplistic argument is the one that draws a sharp line between security and liberty. It's incumbent on both sides to defend the security/freedom principles on a case-by-case basis.
Idris: general purpose pure functional lang with dependent types.
"Where do you derive this supposed natural right for anonymity on the internet?"

From the natural right to free speech. Anonymity systems rely on people transmitting particular messages in particular ways, whether online or offline. When someone makes an anonymous statement to a newspaper, they do so with the assistance of the reporter who writes the article -- that reporter is repeating what someone else said, and not publishing the person's name. Tor, anonymous remailers, and related systems all operate on the same principle: by running a Tor relay or a remailer, you are agreeing to repeat the contents of a message without its headers.

"Whether we like it or not, governments are ultimately the overseers that permit networking infrastructure comprising the internet to be built"

True, but only on a technicality -- the government also allows us to have computers in the first place. The truth is that we do not need the government to "allow" the Internet; the Internet would be a lot slower without the government allowing fiber and coax to be put along public streets, but we could have built an Internet of point-to-point wireless links without having to ask permission (using only ISM bands, IR, and optical systems, for example). The government could outlaw such things, but that does not mean that the lack of such laws is an allowance, unless you think that all your rights are things the government allows (how dare you breath without thanking the government for allowing it?!).
True. A doctor recommended Jamieson.
Might want to change that Drupal favico.
I agree. It's yet another instance of Nvidia not playing nice with the Linux community.
I've attended a few week long meditation retreats where you generally have to adhere to the schedule laid out for you; that includes waking up early (~5:00AM) and going to bed early and also refraining from using anything that could be considered a distraction, namely computers, phones, etc. More often than not, a few days into a retreat I would start experiencing extremely vivid and violent dreams. One of my meditation teachers said that this tends to be a regular occurrence as the mind goes through a form of detox when it's deprived of stimuli. It was interesting to read about the parent's experience with melatonin and then be reminded of these episodes, with possible increased presence of melatonin and deep sleep states being the common factors.
An audiologist told me that.
Dear Boston Dynamics,

This is getting creepier and creepier.

Sincerely,
Humanity
"This market is $XX billion, we only need to take 1% and we'll be rich" is a common startup fallacy. Stealing customers from Oracle is no easy endeavor.
> The 1981 AG memo, which unfortunately seems not to be online anywhere (if you have access to Westlaw or LexisNexis the cite is 43 Op. Att’y Gen. 293)

Well, I found it in the first page of Google results for the citation you provide:

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/10/f3/Shutdown.OLC_....
Have you tested this approach?
Thanks for looking at the source! I'll give that change some consideration.
"That is what laws inherently are, rules that limit an individuals ability for the greater good of society"

That is a description of just and fair laws. Unfortunately many of today's laws are neither just nor fair. You gave a good example:

"...grow and consume marijuana..."
Endogenous melatonin is in the realm of 5-25mcg, I've had great success supplementing 150mcg. Better results than with 3mg even. Consider trying a microdose.

Especially given that you are dealing with a developing brain and melatonin is a hormone.
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> How do they pay the cost of shut down, if they "can't pay" the cost of operation? Just curious. Math, and all that.

Math is not an issue. The legal issue isn't the quantity of funds that can be spent in the absence of appropriations, but the purpose for which funds can be spent in the absence of appropriations.
Melatonin is not easily obtainable here in the UK (as far as I know) so when I saw some in a regular store in the US, I grabbed some to try it.

And boy.. I usually have no trouble falling asleep except when travelling or otherwise "out of sync" so I tried it and I felt like I wanted to sleep almost constantly for two days. So it works, but perhaps a bit too well for me, even with a single tablet. Maybe I have an abundance of melatonin already coursing my veins? :-)
That isn't sufficient.

The NSA might be able to query their databases for anyone who recently visited the city where the wifi involved is located, and you might match that if there were license plate scanners on the way, even if you paid for gas in cash. If that information isn't collected by the NSA today, it probably will be tomorrow.

The NSA might be able to query their databases for anyone who "went off the grid" for a day or two around the event they're interested in. That's not good enough to id a suspect, but it narrows the pool. If you stopped making google searches from your normal internet connection within a day of the event in the other city, and you normally use your computer every day, or if your phone was off within a day of the event, that's suspicious. Enough of those kinds of data points and you become a suspect.

Even simpler, and a staple of crime fiction, stuff happens that you have no control over that can place you in the vicinity at the time of the event. If you have bad luck and get a ticket or get in a car accident in the city in question, for instance...

Far from suggesting that you simply need to be more careful, my view is that you can't take sufficient precautions to get risk down to a tolerable level if whatever you're doing brings you to the attention of the NSA.
> If you meant something more specific than "addiction" maybe you should have said so.

I started out the post with "Drugs like cocaine, meth, heroin".
Effectively it won't change the load time at all. The javascript is less than 4kb minified, and the request is not made until several seconds after the last resource is loaded.

I can't speak for New Relic, but the overhead of this instrumentation would be measured in microseconds.
I don't use OpenCL often enough to justify the expense of a dedicated card, but, when I do use it, it's a life saver to be able to simply run the code on the CAD workstation.
yup. 150mcg makes me feel naturally sleepy around 3 hours later. I highly recommend experimenting with microdoses.
Wait, we cant hold github to account for making linkrot and not applying the spec, but when the spec is implemented by them, for good reason, say "but 1% of your user base reads the spec". Thats a bit of a double standard.
Lessons to be learned from healthcare.gov
Then he has no excuse. Do you really think academic status excuses academic hubris? Do you really think science is about authority and titles? I could go on like this, but you should know better than to recite someone's titles in a science discussion, and frankly I doubt anything I might say will change your behavior.

The bottom line -- in science, evidence means everything, reputation means nothing. The greatest amount of scientific eminence is trumped by the smallest amount of scientific evidence.
Thank you for your helpful reply.

If I do decide to do this project, then I will make sure to credit him.
This is a really naive view of banks. Big banks, especially investment banks are mostly politics-driven institutes. Technology is important, data is important, but those two are not nearly enough to run a successful institute.

I think everybody knows that who has been reasonably close to people actually leading these institutes. Look at GS, MS or the rest - the CEOs and other top managers are many times coming from the government, and in many cases, ending up in government.

Small hedge funds, prop trading shops are big data/tech companies, that might be true. Even in those cases knowing the market (which means significantly more that knowing the hard data) is of paramount importance.

'Beating the market' is not how these institutions make most of their money. Sales, politics and other kinds of human interaction is a make or break factor.
My YC app: snapCard - One-click checkout for the entire Internet
> Since nobody has come up with a DRM system that doesn't depend on a central service that can go away or change its terms, all DRM-based content is effectively rented.

If we consider anything that works to prevent media from being copied in violation of copyright, then there is one solution that does not have a central service, and is not rent-based: watermarking.

Every purchase is watermarked for the specific customer. If they give someone else a copy, it is detectable from who they received it, so legal action is possible. But fair use is never prevented, as copying is always technically possible.

(Yes, it is possible to remove watermarks, but it is also possible to get around DRM - all of these schemes are continuously escalating arms races.)
This is so great.

By forcing yourself to try for 15 minutes, you gain a deeper understanding of what you're troubleshooting so that, even if you don't fix it in 15, next time you're in a better position to troubleshoot than you were the last time.

And by forcing yourself to ask for help after 15, you not only limit the amount of banging-your-head time, but you also get to see how the other person solves the problem while all the details are still fresh in your mind, so that you'll more likely have a deeper understanding of why what you were doing to fix it wasn't working, and why the ultimate solution actually worked.
Heroku, being top dog of the PaaS market, doesn't really have a lot to gain from being able to migrate. Being a market leader, they're already the default for many projects; a standard, easily movable, container for applications would quickly strip away the value they can add to a project. A commodity PaaS deployment platform would quickly drive prices down to nearly bare-metal EC2 prices rather than the high markups that Heroku currently charges.

Redhat's in an interesting position here. They've got a lot of capital & a strong presence in the enterprise but OpenShift is still a minor player in the PaaS market. They have the resources & the credibility to push an open container & give it credibility while also being in a position to benefit financially from commodity containers - anyone that moves from Heroku to hosted OpenShift is a win for them as is any company that goes to RH for their own cloud.
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Begging the question. If this is true anyone having trouble with mongo for legit reasons can be labelled as "using it for the wrong reasons."
Depends if they have clearance, if they do they must get approval first.
I meant specifically that the VM should have low privs when it comes to the host, it shouldn't be able to port scan, map drives, the host MAC can be found via ARP. Just thinking about what happens when the NSA p0wns the OS running the Tor browser.

(vm-tor-net
(vm-tor-browser))

Even if the gui VM that is used for running Tor has been compromised it should still be impossible to determine where the Tor client node is running. That is goal right?
You know this is incredibly impressive, but I still wonder what the practical use case is. I think traveling over rock and through dense forest might be easier with these, but how often do we really do that these days? We're involved in mostly desert warfare, and in terms of reliability, speed and defensibility against attack, you really can't beat a tank-style design.

Would be great for reaching remote areas of places like Colorado with heavy materials, though. In a couple years, these things could really assist with flood repair efforts.
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Because they sell "professional" Quadro/Tesla cards with this feature enabled at enormous prices.
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I refuse to engage in blind trust, either that content will remain available (including that of historical or functional significance) or that -- encased in an opaque block -- it will be safely and fairly delivered.

DRM is a non-starter, for me. Keep your shit out of my peanut butter.
Looks awesome, I've been using JS Promises recently and it's made control flow a lot easier to handle. I've been using Vow, because I like having an .always() that gets called after the promise was handled (rejected or fulfilled), but sadly that library eats tracebacks (at least, I can't figure out a way to do it). Bluebird looks promising, but IE<9 isn't supported at the moment (https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/issues/3). Rules it out for most of my projects.
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The punishment was death by stoning. The crime? Having a mobile phone
I remember reading in at least one study that there's no added benefit of doses above 1mg. I checked the "Brzezinski et al" article and it says:

The dose response relationships in 11 of the studies
(see Refs. 17,18) support the existence of a plateau
effect, with maximum effect generally being achieved
at low doses (e.g. 0.3 mg) and maintained or
diminished at higher doses.
Given how fast the price went back up (two days later, it's basically where it was when the SR story hit), my guess is the dip had little to do with confidence in bitcoins. I'd suggest it was the opposite. We've seen these dips before, and BTC always bounces back. People sold because they expected everyone else to sell, and they wanted to have some cash on hand so they could buy when the price bottomed out. When BTC_USD was at about $90 on btc-e there were something like 750 BTC worth of buy orders at $75. People knew it was going to dip then come back, so they sold so they could buy (self-fulfilling prophecy).
The difference representative democratic governments don't aim to maximise and retain their profits and as such are infinitely preferable to an emergent local mafia, even if the local mafia's protection racket is subject to regular challenge (by more people demanding money with menaces from you...)
cowcatcher, you're hellbanned. As for your question:

"If you want typesafe functional programming on the JVM, why not just use Scala?"

Well, because some people like Clojure and Scala doesn't have enough parentheses.
No, there are disputes over this, and it's exactly why there is Iceweasel in Debian:

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

It's not really a big deal, but the trademark restriction does mean you can't just redistribute Firefox as-is. Whether you count that as non-free is subjective.
According to the article,

> "Tails... adds severe misery to CNE equation."
The Internet is killing the middle class?
add Digital Reasoning to that list very soon.
Yes, such as "EPICFAIL".
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Here's an openbsd VM with tor and a bunch of web browsers preinstalled. There's packet filter rules so even if the vagrant user gets owned, it cannot transmit traffic on the outboard network interface. https://github.com/WIZARDISHUNGRY/openbsd-hiddenfortress
Probably, but that's just one more reason for them not caring about 4 monitor support in non-Windows drivers. From what I've gathered from mailing lists chatter, the very reason Nvidia maintains Linux and FreeBSD drivers is OpenCL/CUDA related work, apparently some big customers demand this (but since I don't really have a source for that, take it with a grain of salt).
as a developer, whose primary role is in GPGPU programming, i can't give you an accurate answer.

i can tell you, however, that the specialist cards typically are only in super-computers. consumer GPUs are typically faster, and significantly cheaper than their HPC counterparts.
Oh, sorry had to mention it! We did stop the iPad version as it needs work on the touch events. So it redirects you to mobile too.

On mobile you have what you've seen :-) so that we don't loose the users. It wouldn't make much sense for them to use Blogvio there as the screen is small for content creation.
I like this rule.
The NSA is like Tor's pentesters, except Tor doesn't get to see the results.
Got mine from biovea.com (with a eurovital.com logo shrugs ) ; they seem to have no problem whatsoever about shipping to the UK.
IIRC, it's widely available in many countries in the EU (specifically eg. Finland), who have no problem whatsoever about shipping it to countries where it's prescription-only.
I code and enjoy JavaScript for years, and rarely feel like my heart feels feels squeezed when I look at a JavaScript library.

Call me hater, but, I would never use it and anything depending on it.
It doesn't matter. Protecting privacy is too big a goal.

In the end, why does the NSA do what it does? To get specific, actionable intelligence. Everyone in the world's privacy is just collateral damage.

But, turn that around. Protecting your privacy (never mind anyone else's) is too big a goal. It's too easily breached. Instead, think of what specific information you feel you need to keep private, and how you might do that.

Of course, the goal of keeping specific, actionable information secret leads to the question of why you'd want to do that. A general desire for privacy doesn't mark you as one of the "bad guys". Having something specific to hide leads to questions of why? To what end? Should we be worried?
Taking the UK government to court over Tempora
I benchmarked static servers in NodeJS, using couple of different libraries such as "st" etc.

They're 7 times slower than a static site server that I wrote in Go.

Forget comparing with Nginx.
Really? HN is full of fluff, and this post is decidedly un-fluffy.
Disclosure: I work for one of the biggest US investment banks.

They fed us this line during training, and often senior leaders who left our company would say the same thing when interviewed on CNBC. This is naïve at best though. Banks are only recently starting use "Big Data" (how I love this buzzword), because they have unmaintainable mainframe systems running on LPARs. The reason it's "Big Data" is that as time goes on, the retention of financial data will increase as well. Banks are definitely NOT technology companies, at least as far as the compensation structure is concerned ;)

Don't believe me? Compare any bank CTO to an equivalent position in front office.
Boston Dynamics introduces "WildCat" running robot
It sounds like you are making a prediction about how coherent futurist predictions will seem in the future :)
As a sidenote, I appreciate the sense of humor that the tup author has:

"In a typical build system, the dependency arrows go down. Although this is the way they would naturally go due to gravity, it is unfortunately also where the enemy's gate is. ... In tup, the arrows go up. This is obviously true because it rhymes."

"<diagram of tup vs make> See the difference? The arrows go up."

http://gittup.org/tup/tup_vs_mordor.html
> That's why we have to oppose DRM in HTML5 and keep the web open. It is sad that Tim Berners-Lee has given up on the open web. But I won't and I hope Mozilla won't and I hope you and others won't either.

Fully agree. I think the focus of the effort should be to lobby the 2 browser vendors that are driving this DRM effort, Google and Microsoft (see 'Editors' section on https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med... ).

The only way to stop this DRM proposal is to have it not be implemented in browsers. The only way to stop that is to convince Google and Microsoft to stop pushing it.
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This is a pretty good rule of thumb for posting questions online (Stack Overflow) as well as asking your co-workers. Take the time to understand the problem yourself so you can better present it to someone else.
Given that the US government is Tor's main funder, the first part may be more accurate than the second part.
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Gotta love the sexist-comment-apropos-of-nothing you managed to throw in at the end there.
I don't know how well the Boston Dynamics machines will cope with dust and fines but having similar robots on Mars or the Moon would be handy.
"Sandpit" sounds like the name given to an account that multiple people may be using in a test environment, rather than something meant as an actual ID.
> there is no intrinsic right to anonymity

wouldn't the opposite be against individual liberty?
...and enterprise software vendors (eg - Oracle) officially support their software running on RHEL. If you're paying 6 figures for a software license, the difference between APT and RPM fades quickly.
In Friedman's system, it's not "everyone votes on each issue, and only the winning issues get implemented"

Yes, I agree, and I didn't say anything that contradicts this. My comments were about futarchy, not about Friedman's anarcho-capitalism.

It's the difference between "everyone votes on which car should get made, and only the winning car gets made" and "everyone pays for whatever car they want." Most economists and people agree that the latter works better for cars, and I don't think that the production and enforcement of law is an easier task than automobile production.

You should direct these comments at Hanson, not at me. These are criticisms of futarchy as well as of the democracy we have now, and I agree with them. In fact I am arguing that futarchy is worse than the democracy we have now, because it requires "everyone votes on what the measure of national welfare should be adopted, and only the winning measure gets adopted" in addition to "everyone votes on what laws should get made, and only the winning law gets made".