skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be missing my point.

Should those drone detection and capture systems be controlled by humans or algorithms? Just because you remove the word "drone" doesn't make algorithmic warfare any less inevitable.
Given the size of the market and the amount of hashing power required to do that you'd almost certainly lose more money from not mining during that time than you would make on the trade.
Would telling them "Your child is stupid because you are stupid!" really be more successful than pointing out a lack of effectiveness? And would they really ignore the left-over variability? And will they stop at Baby Einstein CDs or will they just neglect any IQ improvement method, like regular and complete school attendance?
Yes, Russell definitely did that and was evasive about it afterward. In the late 1940s this insanity was widespread: an entire movement of politically influential players dedicated itself to nuking the Soviet Union before it achieved the bomb and (so the argument went) inevitably used it on us. Von Neumann was another prominent advocate ("If you say bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say do it at five o'clock I say why not one o'clock?") Many hawkish military leaders (e.g. Curtis Lemay) pushed strongly for it, though others (such as Eisenhower, IIRC) had the wisdom to be appalled by the idea. Thankfully Truman refused. [1]

I got all this from William Poundstone's book on the Prisoner's Dilemma. It's been years since I read it, so corrections on details are welcome.

That is the climate that was satirized in Dr Strangelove.

It was sordid on Russell's part to agitate for nuclear strikes, but everyone makes mistakes and everyone is subject to social climate. What is arguably worse is that once the insanity had passed, he refused to own up to it fair and square and just say "we were mad, and thank goodness it didn't happen". Perhaps that is what a world reputation as a moral authority does to the ego. I remember doing a double-take when I first read about this and wondering why it is so little known. If Barry Bonds deserves an asterisk beside his name in the record books then surely so does Bertie.

[1] Contemporary analogs left as an exercise to the reader.
If they're after you in particular, yes. But the standards for seizure at the border are basically at the customs officer's discretion and requires no forethought or preparation. They can just decide you are suspicious and take your machine, making a copy if they like.

Also, you can encrypt all settings and history locally before syncing in ChromeOS. While that won't help your gmail account or search history, those are products you can much more easily use alternatives to while still using ChromeOS itself. That leaves you vulnerable pretty much only to the authorities forcing google to send you a corrupted update, which can't be trivial and is an even higher barrier protecting you from casual and dragnet snooping.
Sure, sure. That's comparable to how to fix communism. All we need to do is change the way human beings work, change fundamental economic incentives, and everything will be golden.

It's just not possible. There's only one way to fix these problems, and it's not something most people are ready to accept. It's to turn the internet inside out, from a client-server model to a store-and-forward model. It's to treat web content more like ebooks than like fliers posted to a cork board.
That's the thing: we still haven't replaced our CO alarm.

Given how integrated it is into the BRINKs panel: it's doubtful the CO alarms would've even worked while the BRINKs panel was powered but unactivated.

Now we are left with keypads [we don't want] and deactivated CO alarms bolted in to our freshly painted walls. sigh

I'm not particularly annoyed by the behavior itself: false alarms don't bother me, and a low battery alert is definitely a useful "error code."

What bugs me is that it should be easy to dismiss the "low battery warning" for _at least_ 8 to 12 hour windows. Long enough that you can actually get some rest and deal with it in the morning / after your shift.
I, personally, expect Kickstarter projects to be later than their original delivery promises. Especially if the scope expanded due to stretch goals. I've backed about two dozen campaigns at this point, and I'm not sure any of them have delivered "on time".

I'm halfway through running my second kickstarter campaign. I'm hoping to deliver the rewards a lot faster than I did for the first one; I learnt a lot about making and shipping stuff during the first one, and tried to structure the rewards in such a way as to eliminate the biggest time-sink on my end.
I have pain in my lower back constantly due to poor posture while sitting. I was hoping to find some good feedback on those who have used lumoback ? Please chime in.

For those like me, I'll recommend this book. It made my life slightly less painful "8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back". Look it up online. I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
> I fear the costs would merely get passed on to tax payers

Yes, if you're proposing the government compensate people for XXX, eventually the taxpayers are going to be the ones footing the bill.
PHP in a Tweet
"After 9.10% House Fees Deducted"

Isn't that a little high?
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Aneutronic, not radiation free.
Is this on the Gmail web interface or on the Android app? I remember ads in the web interface that are placed above the message list for a while now, but putting them in the app where screen space is scarce would be an awful experience. If that happens I'm switching to Fastmail. Incidentally, does anyone know if Fastmail lets you pay for several years in advance?
Except that your shortener service won't last as long as your print issues either. With the original URL there's still the hope that the Wayback Machine is still maintained and had visited the page. It's a hard problem.
Wouldn't this be resolved by setting a data-1x property (leaving the src/background-image property blank)and then running javascript to substitute the data-1x property for non-retina devices and data-2x property for retina devices?
I'm not missing your point at all. People's behavior is reflected in the statistics regarding fire deaths and injuries as collated by the US Fire Administration.

It is collected solely for the purpose of saving lives by the very people who go into burning buildings and find the bodies. Claims on a website hawking smoke detectors as objects of desire are made for other purposes.

The statistics don't support the idea that people disable their smoke detectors permanently over nuisance alarms. And the Nest website doesn't back up their claims with data.
Ah... I see it now. Thanks.
I don't think PMP certifications are any worse than any other certifications, though often, as with other certifications, they often aren't worth the paper they are printed on. And I agree that the project managers often have little-to-no technical expertise in the project they are managing; but that's not supposed to be their job. Their job is supposed to be to manage the job that the experts are working on and let the experts do their thing. Although they (PMs) should have at least enough knowledge to understand discussions at a high level, facilitate when necessary and recognize when one of the experts is blowing smoke out his/her ass.
Raw – The missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics
Terrible title, but one of the best articles I've read in a long time. There are some pretty profound quotes in there.
Archive.org, as cool as it is, does not archive the entirety of the internet. Moreover, it's a bit silly to posit that one website that we can surely rely on to exist always! is the solution to the fact that you can never rely on the existence of any particular website in the future.
The negatives posed in this post are hardly negatives. Companies will be able to raise the money they actually need and not have to deal with shitty advisors or gain great advisors and dilute a little more. To an extent, this separation will weed out the shitty VCs, which is an ultimate win for the industry. Is my logic correct?
:) I was just being facetious.
These idiots keep screwing with their products. Thank god Yahoo is now only a secondary email for me. They removed tabs, the tabs were a great convenience. They fubared their fantasy sports site, recently added back the white theme, amidst a massive backlash.

I just don't get it, why mess with all this so damn often, and piss users off....
The most scary quote in the whole article is this:

THE COURT: You want to do it in a way that the government has to trust you
/.../
THE COURT: And you won’t trust the government. So why would the government trust you?

It was that the whole idea on which US is built on - the Constitution and other founding ideas - was based on trusting the government only with very little that is necessary for it to function and no more, and having the ultimate power reside in the hands of the citizens. Now it comes to trust in the government being implied and if the citizen doesn't trust the government, he is not to be trusted and must be subjected to coercion. And that's coming from courts, that are supposed to be protecting the constitutional rights. America has come a long and very sad way since its noble origins.
It depends on when you place the bet.

> House Fees: To encourage betting early, house fees begin at 0% of your bet and increases linearly to 20% when the betting round closes.

(http://www.futureblock.com/how-it-works)
I remember PC World started doing this back in like 2003. Makes sense, I think. But how are you solving the problem any better than a reader can armed with (1) the date on your cover, (2) the original URL, and (3) the Internet Archive Wayback Machine? Are you aggressively caching every page, even if you don’t make the cache public for a number of years?
nice troll attempt
If you like writing so sloppily that others have to guess your intention, that's your style, it isn't mine; there's nothing wrong with pointing out incorrect usage of words.
> Sadly, I fear the costs would merely get passed on to tax payers eventually anyway, and would perhaps not actually promote more prudent and judicial use of powers.

Well, it would if the signal it sent to taxpayers was that they needed to be more prudent in their oversight of government. Of course, just restoring immunity is an easier way to avoid the issue, and so would be the most probable response.
"expected" payoff is the key, here. He's not just dividing a billion by 3.
He also wrote "Conquest of Happiness".
oh my, I got tptacek's attention.

You probably also missed the part where pallandt said he was american, too. because it also didn't happen. odd that you didn't focus on that part.

When one is basing their understanding solely on documents from the prosecution, one is programming themselves with a bias. do you disagree?
How to go about 'proving' why dynamically typed languages are better. Groups
Full streams ahead
But isn't the DC contracting community involved in other high availability transactional systems? For example, isn't one of the ACH systems a government or pseduo-government system?
I get an empty download file… is that expected? (Must be a Wayback Machine glitch, maybe caused by the surge of popularity, I figure. It was supposed to have content about school shooters)
The 4-Hour Hackathon
I'm sure it's possible, but there are several other large-ish data centers within a 15-mile radius that don't seem to have the same problems. Ebay just built one that's running off of natural gas fuel cells.

Source: I live about 5 miles away from all of this.
Many links usually 301 redirect for a while before dying. Maybe it helps in those cases to update the shortened URL to point to the new link.
Machine learning behind the Moves activity tracker app
Eric Schmidt calls Android more secure than iPhone
After they had SSL keys and tap system, they won't need a warrant to access specific data - they could just look and see anything they want. Of course, some of it would probably be inadmissible in court, but who cares - they'd just use different evidence in the court or "parallel construct" it. If they already have the data, the warrant requirement is useless.
The statistics don't support the idea that people disable their smoke detectors permanently over nuisance alarms.

Is that because the statistics show otherwise, or just that we don't collect statistics on it?
In that case we should probably go ahead and throw out the word "evolution" as well. After all, etymologically speaking it's a metaphor with strong teleological connotations. Worse yet, it also hints at predestination. All in all, I'd say it's much more troublesome than "meant to".
Oh yes they are, but not anything with a web-front end. They do really well with mainframe and back-end, just don't expect anything that has to touch a web stack.
I would like to think this would begin to gain ground against systems like Jira (oh, how I loathe thee). Sure, Phabricator is a bit of a pain in the ass to set up in its current state, but it seems to be head and shoulders above many in both features and ease-of-use (not to mention price).
The World of Mathematics
I think that there are about 15 events in the 125Gev bump.

Just sayin'....
Well, you know, if there is a chance that something goes wrong ...

Anyway, cool site, great idea and thx for the links above!
http://web.archive.org/web/20110629140903/http://ssnat.com/
*>So, for me, the override is very much a welcome feature that improves safety. In fact, I think I'll be buying one.

You had an improperly installed fire alarm, so the safety-improving feature for you isn't to properly install a fire alarm, but to simplify the overriding of the alarm so you can continue to ignore an improperly installed alarm?

...
You guys make it sound like Bluffdale, Utah is akin to the Mojave. Here along the Wasatch Front the weather's fairly pleasant most of the year. This July we got an abnormally large number of days in the 100s, but usually it's quite livable.
It's even bigger than most lotteries.
Isn't that always going to be true?

These systems are entirely built on code, and code is malleable. If you have control over the code that gets executed at every point in the stack (which the operator of a web app certainly does), there's always room for the operator to change the code and therefore change the behavior to do anything, including log things that were previously considered secure.

> The entire security of Lavabit depends on Ladar and his principles.

That has always been true. If he was a less scrupulous individual, he could have run an off-the-shelf e-mail solution with 0 fancy security, but claimed that it was all secure on the backend in his marketing. You wouldn't know the difference, because you can't audit the source code.

Unless you have the access, time, and expertise to perform your own source audit, any claims of security are always implicitly built upon a foundation of trust that the operator is doing what it claims.
meant for x = "narrowly optimal for x with a lot of dependencies on x"
Full disclosure - it's not actually a 4-hour hackathon, but we're looking for mentors/programming experts to help out remotely, which can just be a few hours at a time.

All thoughts on the general idea would be awesome as well.
Several years ago, I switched to electric and never looked back. Less irritation, no cuts, no need for cream, faster.

Shaving is not as close, but if you think it's a problem, ask your friends if they can see the difference :)
I don't have any clocks that need manual changing. Haven't for years. And I rarely know what the date is unless some external stimuli makes me check. It's just not relevant to my daily life.

Your experience is not mine, and mine is not yours. Why is it so offensive that someone has tried to make my life better? Is it just jealousy that they didn't work on one of your problems?
Anecdotal evidence time: I'd never in my life had "good posture" - I was able to sit/stand that way if I focused on it, but as soon as my concentration slipped I'd be back to my old slouching or hunched over ways. So I never understood how people with good posture were able to do it.

Then, about 1 year ago (age: early 30s) I started experiencing pretty bad back pain. I'd get out of bed and it would take 10 minutes before I could stand up straight, due to lower back pain. Similarly, when I stood up after sitting for more than 30 minutes or so, it took a while to "straighten out"

I tried stretches and a new mattress to no avail, before trying the advice of a co-worker: powerlifting. And holy shit! Within 3 months of deadlifts and squats, my back pain was totally gone. Furthermore, I now understand how some people have good posture - It just happens when your back and supporting muscles are strong enough. No focus required.

Anyone else having my kind of problems should look into that. If you've never done it before, pay a trainer so you can learn the proper form. Remember, it's a marathon and not a sprint - if you start at a lower weight than you can do, it's not really a problem, because the goal should be to make gym-going a lifelong habit.
The prosecution is trying their hardest to make the case fit uniformly on Ulbrecht. One often omits facts and information that does not support a claim in court when making a criminal complaint. If we ruled only on the information provided by the prosecution, we would be a fascist society, guilty until proven innocent. Seeing as we are all presumed innocent until proven guilty, Perhaps you should not form your opinion based on the documents from only one side of the debate.
> "If you’re reading this on any desktop monitor that exists in 2013, you’re on a legacy display (72 pixels per inch)"

The 22.2" IBM T221 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors) 'becomes retina' when you are 17" away from it, compared to the Apple Macbook Pro Retina 15", which 'becomes retina' when you are 16" away from it. The former has a PPI of 203.98, the later 220.53. (all calculations done by http://isthisretina.com/)

High DPI monitors prior to 2013 have also existed for years for use in hospitals, though admittedly most consumers have probably never used one of those.
Avg.com (AVG anti-virus) DNS hacked
Hmm, I'm not sure what you meant, but it does occur to me that, obviously, one has to trust the house to be honest here.

I'm not sure there's any way to be sure the house is really paying out the entire pot -- let alone to be sure the house isn't intentionally manipulation the actual market itself!
You are citing a source. MLA and other schemes require you to give an access date, and the only way to definitively prove you saw content on a given date is to provide the content you saw. Web servers don't magically give users a way to go back in time.

Whether PDF is an appropriate format is a different story.
No, because the situations where you do want to shut the alarm up (usually when you've burned something in the kitchen), you are basically saying "yes yes, I know, leave me alone"

But if you were asleep and were woken up by an alarm, you obviously don't know what it is.

Plus, the added benefit of the smoke alarm saying "Smoke in <some room>" is much more useful.
I really like the concept for your company, and I wish you the best.

That said, I have to admit I read your explanation of the name of your company three times before I understood that you are changing the L in URL into an X. In my head, I guess I had latched onto the URX as something like "You Are X", and then that opens up all the possibilities to what I can be, where I am, etc. That may happen to a lot of people.

Is it possible that, by skipping demo day, you also skipped the communications training that allows you to transmit your idea in two minutes? Since you are going to be asked to explain your name dozens if not hundreds of times in the future, maybe you could iterate on the three paragraphs above until you can get the URL->URX connection into an ordinary persons head.
Already posted 20 minutes before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6516587
>The point is that it would be hard to retrieve evidence from one.

This can already be achieved over the public internet through the use of FreeNet or other darknet programs. Duplicating the entire communications infrastructure is the least efficient or covert way of doing this.
Same anecdote! I hate hearing friends tell me that they don't squat because their knees hurt. Dude, your knees hurt because you don't squat!

Mine did too, until I learned 1) the proper way to perform complex human motions like lifting something from the ground and 2) increased all of the muscles from my core to my legs that are involved with those complex movements.
> The user interface for current smoke detectors is very thoughtful. It is based upon experience.

Is that so? It's not because it's a commodity device built with "lowest bidder" mentality out of the cheapest possible materials?

There are a lot of things that we are stuck with that are just plain stupid -- like emergency exits that are illuminated RED, the universal color of "stop", and only written in english. But the function of a smoke alarm doesn't have to be one of them.

I think you're spinning straw men here man. Reading the documentation it's clear this device sounds an audible alarm at the same concentration as old fashioned devices. It just has an add'l feature of an early-warning spoken alarm. And the wave to dismiss is no less safe than the push-button-to-dismiss that is commonly used.
You've linked to the same post.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem does not imply that NOTHING can be objectively true or false.
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This seems like a good way to grow adoption. If more web developers build for Firefox first, it follows that clients/customers/company employees would also be encourage to adopt it.
To be fair, your government should be working to protect you from foreign threats like this. You should not rely on foreign powers to protect you.
"on Their Own" isn't correct, there is still legal liability, even if it's distant, someone has to ok the algo, someone has to fund it, people have to start the process off... Heat seeking missiles aren't new, and are also automated yet lethal...
I think if you want to maintain the image of a respected journal you should probably disable commenting on the site..
You can get secure offshore email, hosted in Switzerland for less than that at http://NeoMailbox.net

I have no affiliation with them whatsoever other than the fact I use the service.
The plans should be static site content. You shouldn't have to initiate the sign-up process just to see what's available.
facetious? That's a good humor.
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A definitive work on this subject that started the trend:

http://www.amazon.com/Chair-Rethinking-Culture-Body-Design/d...

It is also worth noting that Humans were not meant to stand for 8-12 hours a day non-stop either.
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