skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice to see some scientific work going into the causality count in the Iraq war. Most of the surveys/official estimations are way off, the Opinion Research Business survey reported over a million deaths while most US sources stated around 100k mark.

This report is somewhere in the middle, which is most realistic.
Security doesn't have to mean inspection lines or profiling.

It could mean guards walking around, like in an apartment complex or mall. It could mean people watching CCTV.

This could all be done by the airline. They don't want bombings just as much as you or I. The only difference is they don't have an incentive to create a regulation that forces people to subject themselves to embarrassment or harassment.

Where is the TSA's incentive? Justifying their existence. In one hand, you have an anti terrorist, governmental agency, which will always try to justify itself, and on the other you have a necessary expense for the airlines mandated by their public relations and to reduce bad press/events from happening.
The only issue is that Coinbase data lags behind the more active markets by a few days. Live data is better seen on sites like http://bitcoinity.org/markets
I am sometimes amused to read failed replication studies which do not calculate their own statistical power -- so they do not know whether, assuming the original study was correct, they will have the sample size to reliably detect an effect. A failed replication then says nothing about the original conclusions.

Statistical error is a hobby of mine. The Economist mentions a few pervasive errors, but there are many more. I've been writing a guide:

http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/

One amusing example is the oft-quoted statistic that 3 million Americans use a gun in self-defense each year. The true figure is several orders of magnitude smaller. Follow the link for more details:

http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/p-value.html#taking-up-ar...
It contains so much speculation I'm not sure that what the author was trying to say even matters.
I think the article mentions that it's small businesses that are at risk. Most mom and pop shops don't have the greatest IT infrastructure.
Hmm. If only it supported SSH tunnelling out of the box. Seriously, RDP is not exactly "safe", and SSH gateways are common in mixed shops. I use Jump Desktop because of that alone.
Microsoft, you're more than a little late to the game. It'll have to really blow away Jump Desktop for me to bother using your app. Jump has a lot of very nice features, especially the one where it'll open an SSH tunnel for the RDC session to go through without me needing to launch another client first. It's perfect for setting up behind a router running DD-WRT or other variant, so the Remote Desktop port on my Windows box isn't exposed to the rest of the world.
That won't work, it could be prevented by a man-in-the-middle attack on the victim's own computer. Just spoof the blockchain signatures required as if the payment was sent on an ad-hoc network and the program would unlock itself.
I agree and have run into that problem myself. Unfortunately, fixing that impression takes time and to my knowledge there isn't any real way to explain the problem with "Platonic truth" as a tangent off of a discussion around research journals, for instance. It requires a full step back and a couple hours of discussion to explain it at all, if you haven't been exposed to it before.

If anyone has any recommendations on that front, I am all ears.
Does anyone know of something like this for Facebook?
I've never done it before myself, but this looks simple enough; like a paypal donation:

http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate

Now, how the malware-writer goes about verifying payment is beyond my understanding...
"I'm generally not very receptive to arguments along the lines of "OK, this show isn't great now but you owe it to the universe to give it six months" but I also don't really disagree."

That's not really the argument I was trying to make. I apologize if I wasn't clear enough! Usually my fault. Rather, what I was trying to say is that hindsight is 20/20, and at the outset, nobody at the network -- hell, nobody in Hollywood, including Tina Fey herself -- would have imagined that 30 Rock would outperform Studio 60. I was simply making a broad illustration of the difficulty of predicting winners, even based on (ostensible) quality of a script.

"Are there good examples of a really "knock them dead" pilot that didn't translate into a halfway decent show. Smith might be one possible candidate although I liked the show as a whole more than people in general apparently did."

There are some fantastic pilots that never even got made for various reasons. As for "best pilot that became a bad series," I think Studio 60 is up there. I'd also nominate The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a show with an ostensibly built-in fanbase and a great pilot that just ran out of places to go. Also, call me completely f'ing crazy, but I thought the pilot for SeaQuest DSV was really solid. The show itself? Kind of a massive, bloated embarrassment for all concerned (including Spielberg, one of the show's executive producers).

I'm sure there are plenty of others, but the problem is that -- as with most instances -- we suffer from a bit of a hindsight issue here. Also a bit of a selection bias. Because a lot of good-pilots-turned-crappy-series got canned after a few episodes, we don't remember them as much as we do the shows that lasted a season or longer.

"Related question. For a relatively big budget show, how expensive is making a pilot relative to non-pilot development costs?"

Pilots are usually more expensive than episodes of a show, for a number of reasons. The biggest reason is economies of scale. A running show has its scripts planned out in advance, a regular staff, a cast, and a series of continuously operating parts that reduce the marginal production cost of each episode over the course of a season. A pilot is more like making a small movie: you incur a lot of ad hoc and one-time costs to build something, and you gain no economies of scale. You set up the production, make the episode, then tear everything down and put the whole thing on pause until May.

Another big reason is talent costs. It's not uncommon to convince a prestigious film director or major actor to work on the pilot of a show to help sell it to advertisers and audiences. These folks won't stick around for the show itself, but spending money on them for pilots -- basically, as a form of insurance -- is an age-old tactic.
Why do you think a la carte content purchases are going away?
Windows 8.1 Enterprise 90 day trial
Idea for startups not accepted in Y Combinator, Techstars or 500 Startups
I think their Bitcoin payment method is actually to facilitate international payments (funny in a dark way) - they also take the popular shady prepaid-debit/cash-wire service GreenDot Moneypak and I'd imagine most US victims paid up that way.

There are a couple of anecdotes on Reddit about Canadians and other non-US residents scrambling to find a physical Bitcoin storefront or Craigslist contact to pay the ransom for them since Moneypak wasn't available in their area.
Cure BASH with Sparforte Programming Language – by Ken O. Burtch
What's the advantage of using Sword over, say, compass watch?
Yes, but this is somewhat like saying you could mark the banknotes used to pay off a person that's blackmailing you. If you catch someone with a marked note that doesn't prove they are the perpetrator; it just means that they received your money somehow.
Awesome - congrats on a very impressive hack.
And that's just as good an idea as executable data segments in a binary format (ie. not a very good idea). It's taken MS literally YEARS to get to half-decent default filesystem permissions in Windows 7 and this kind of thing just undermines it totally.
CamelCaseIsNotTheOnlyWay(); Or why snake case might be a better option
> That sounds like an IDE/editor feature, not a language feature.

Being toolable is a language feature. You can't do these things with JS or CS, because your tools don't have a clue what's going on. You can only do some guessing.
Microsoft acquired iTap which offered Android, iOS, and OS X versions. I'm assuming we're probably seeing that same rebranded product which is why there isn't a Windows Phone option.

http://itap-mobile.com/desktop/rdp
No you had plenty of time to work in your twenties, you just choose to use it dating and partying and backpacking.

It is absolutely true that life adds its demands up - family, parents, Ill relations, children with special needs.

If you have none of these count yourself lucky.
> You could imagine the Bitcoin community deciding to blacklist any wallets to which funds like this were demanded and disbursed.

I can imagine lots of things, but I don't see any reason to believe that that's likely.
Science is slowly getting to those conclusions:

> Taken together, these changes in brain and body are further evidence that sleep deprivation is a chronic stressor and that the resulting allostatic load can contribute to cognitive problems, which can, in turn, further exacerbate pathways that lead to disease.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026049506...
Big Data Checklist: The Difference Between Engineering and Big Data Engineering
Wait how does this differ from JSLinux? Aren't they doing the same thing?

Also, this isn't just an x86 emulator, right? If it can boot linux, it's emulating the entire PC platform, not just x86. Very impressive of course. But I am interested in a comparison vs jslinux (also not open source).
This variant seems to - it needs the command and control servers to get the public key.

Particularly evil malware could probably encrypt the data irreversibly if the command and control servers were unavailable, since as long as the decryption works some portion of the time lots of people will pay, but thankfully this particular example doesn't seem to be there yet.
g3: Probably you have seen my emulator.
http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/
It does more or less the same, but emulates a different CPU.

Your emulator is impressive and especially fast. I think it took a long time for you to optimize it.
I tried to start TinyCore, but it stops after decompressing the kernel. So still some work to do ;)
Chromium and Firefox send different key codes for `-` and `=` (see http://unixpapa.com/js/testkey.html).

Regarding GPFs: This is one of the few things that are not completely implemented yet, I'm working on figuring this out.
That article was unreadable. Like. It made me nauseous reading it. Like VR from 1990s. Like word vomit! I love it! I hate it! I don't know its trying to say.

More articles should be unwritten in this ungood (FABULOUS!) manner.
Very nice and great job. Im always thinking that desk for computer must be wide and glassy wood.

Thanks for posting.
I started cutting my own hair a few ago to save money and because I also hated going to hair dressers. A started doing small trims, but after a while was confident to try whatever I felt like. Guys hair really isn't that hard to cut if your just doing the basics, and I've found it is really convenient to be able to do it myself.
Couldn't agree more. It's not just speed, but design defects that should not have existed even 15 years ago. Look at this review of some of this crap:
http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/05/visual-studio-is-it-g...
Contrary to public claims, Apple can read your iMessages
Even if it encrypts regardless, preventing the perpetrators from profiting will remove their incentive to keep spreading this stuff. Once antivirus catches up to the copies in the wild, the problem would be solved. Of course, whether it's actually possible to shut down enough servers to prevent them from profiting is another question. But it seems to me anything that makes it more difficult is a good thing, even though it does suck for those who lose data.
What happens when someone makes the assumption that the comments are up to date
, correct and unambiguous? They get fired.
The soul-crushing bugs are the ones where you run a program, and nothing actually goes actively wrong, but the program overall just doesn't behave quite like it does on the real hardware.

Simple defects where a key is being ignored on certain systems are usually quite easy to fix ;)
I said "dissidents." All of the above three leaked classified secrets; countries like China will arrest you and subjugate you to inhumane conditions just for criticizing the government, or trying to start political change.
صور الجماع 2013 , احلى طرق الجماع , اوضاع و طرق الجماع للمتزوجين فقط
اوضاع و طرق الجماع بالصور للمتزوجين فقط الطريقة متعبة للطرفين بحيث
صور الجماع 2013 , احلى طرق الجماع , اوضاع و طرق الجماع للمتزوجين فقط - http://www.alhqeqa.com/?p=22145
I'm totally impressed.
The Myth of Passion and Motivation
They may be the first to announce it, but several Catholic Silicon Valley Churches are set up to take donations that way.

Non-Catholic churches are doing so more, but Churches are pretty quick to figure out that taking online payments in multiple forms is a good deal for them.
Google Chrome Updater certainly does have a few virus like characteristics.

Every time my interent connection slows (WiFi) I know it's Chrome Updater so I kill it via Task Manager and everthing is good again.

There doesn't apear to be away to turn it off inside Chrome itself and turning off updates via the registry does not seem to stop it.
Stress and Diabetes "not" a match made in Heaven..
Nassim Nicholas Taleb :
"Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs. Top-down modifications to the system (through GMOs) are categorically and statistically different from bottom up ones (regular farming, progressive tinkering with crops, etc.) To borrow from Rupert Read, there is no comparison between the tinkering of selective breeding and the top-down engineering of taking a gene from a fish and putting it into a tomato. Saying that such a product is natural misses the statistical process by which things become “natural”.

What people miss is that the modification of crops impacts everyone and exports the error from the local to the global. I do not wish to pay —or have my descendants pay — for errors by executives of Monsanto. We should exert the precautionary principle there —our non-naive version — simply because we would discover errors after considerable damage."

Mathematical Definition & more -> http://blog.longnow.org/02013/07/08/the-artangel-longplayer-...
I really like Jacob Bijani's (ex-Tumblr) new desk. Looks simple but it's very spacious.

http://jacobbijani.com/post/63757715317/me-and-tidas-desk-bu...
You can't go around writing comments for the lowest common denominator. Insanity ensues.
I'm amazed that we are still finding new fossils all the time. What is the story usually like of how this happens? Farmer digs a hole for a fencepost, finds a weird skull, calls 1-800-ANTHROPOLOGIST? I'm being flippant but I'm genuinely curious how fossils like this continue to be discovered.
According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein'..., estimates of Iraqis killed by Saddam range from a quarter million to a million, and estimates of Iranians killed in the Iran-Iraq are in a similar range. So, let's call his death toll a half million to two million.

About a decade after the Gulf War, which had pretty much put a stop to Saddam's killing spree, the US decided to invade Iraq again, on the pretext that Saddam was building weapons of mass destruction. The evidence was quite flimsy, and it turns out not to have been true. In the process, the US and allies, plus the destabilization of the country after, managed to kill another half million Iraqis.

Think about that for a minute. A half million people, killed based on a flimsy pretext, that anyone with half a brain could see through (and no, I don't just say this in hindsight, I thought the justification was flimsy at the time as well). Somewhere between a quarter as many and as many people killed by the Iraq War as Saddam himself had killed.

How did we come to this? How is it possible that we have gone so far astray that we are slaughtering as many people as someone we vilify as part of the "axis of evil"?
Ha ha, OutputDebugString. Heaven forbid that printf go to the goddamned console like a normal system. And that's just one of many asinine deficiencies in VS. It is indeed going backward: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/05/visual-studio-is-it-g...
My radical pedagogical program
Plan 9 iso [0] CD image fails

Unimplemented: #GP handler
Execution stopped

[0] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/
I want to write an emulator as a learning experience. Any tips how should I start?
I can't believe this
Easy to use this in octopress

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16289012/theme-developmen...
This is one reason why I really like Doxygen, in the areas where it's supported. It's not only very easy to generate easy-to-read documentation for the code while writing it (specialized comments, with operators to call out special meanings and so forth), but it's also very easy to create high-level documentation from exactly the parts that contribute to it. (Section, page, etc. commands.) Not to mention, then generate a nice, easy HTML stack of it all with pages, search-ability, etc.

I've never really agreed with the whole "code should be just be obvious when read." The problem with any large set of instructions is that both the instruction, order, combinations, and other artifacts reflect the experience, background, and environment of the author. Two developers of largely equivalent experience and talent rarely come up with the same set of instructions for the same task.

Consider if I told you how an engine functioned as a means of telling you how to change a head gasket.
Would have been fun if it included some interface to execute assembler code on it directly in some way (without booting an OS).

In any case, super awesome! Great work :)

EDIT: Whoa, the dos one has games on it! Can you make Wolf3D work? :)
Actually bitcoin has many strengths, but anonymity is not one of them. There have been multiple papers that go into how easy it is to trace, and even laundering style services like SRO used aren't very good.

http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-3.pdf
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
I get annoyed when people are warned not to open some attachment. The real problem here is that in 2013 we're still using the flawed language of "opening attachments" -- as if running a native executable with full permissions is an action that belongs in the same category as viewing an image, reading a text file, or listening to music.

Well, it doesn't. This is a problem that should have been solved at the level of OS permissions/UI long ago. Why does a modern OS include UI functionality allowing a standard user to run an uninstalled executable in a non-sandboxed environment? There's no good reason for it.

In some cases the problem been solved (e.g., restrictions that allow only signed apps to be executed). But I guess none of those cases include Windows, its standard UI, and popular e-mail programs. :-(
This plus https://github.com/kif-framework/KIF would make a great pair: FBSnapshotTestCase to protect against presentation regression, and KIF to protect against interaction + integration regression.
Agreed (and upvoted).

I have yet to use any other remote desktop system that feels nearly as responsive as Microsoft's own RDP implementation, and I've used many. The others I've used are workable (especially over very fast links), but with every interaction there is just enough lag to continually remind you that you're running over a network connection, whereas Microsoft's RDP feels pretty much like running locally as long as you avoid gaming or high-frame-rate video.

I haven't tried their Android client yet, but I'm hoping it works nearly as well as their desktop implementation does.
Sounds like a lot of effort just to watch some crappy movies.
For reasons of consumer convenience and marginal purchase costs. Right now, I believe the reason iTunes is so competitive with Netflix has less to do with a la carte's strength as a model, and more to do with Apple's strength as a platform and ecosystem. I would not be shocked to see more subscription-type offerings from Apple, especially with the whole migration toward iCloud.

Here is where I'll put on my Purely Speculative Futurist hat, and I'll wade out a little bit into the choppy waters of broad generalizations. But I think that a la carte purchases, especially for entertainment products, are in many ways a relic of physical media. That's the way you had to buy physical media, for the most part. But it's a relic that cloud technologies and streaming services are obviating the need for. From a consumer standpoint, I experience zero marginal cost to watch an episode of Breaking Bad on Netflix (whereas I very much experience the feeling of paying $2.99 for it on iTunes).

Netflix is in a tough spot because it has lost a lot of great content, as well as competitive windows against services like iTunes. iTunes is (currently) a much better place to get the new stuff while it's new, and that's a big liability for Netflix or other subscription services. All other things being equal, subscription is a better value proposition than ownership for many categories of goods. It's also more convenient.
Yes, the service doesn't have a 'space limit' setting.. So it's essentially infinite storage. It is deduplicated, so there is some savings there.. And the log only saves your changes.. So the space used would be 100% + % changed during period - % duplicated

We are working on a 'space limit' setting (should be finished shortly).. But if that were enabled, and you exceeded it, you would just get a write error when new data is written.. It wouldn't delete the log.. So if that setting were finished, an you got this virus, the virus might get a write error halfway through.. But your old versions would still be safe.
I'm getting here
> speed 1640kIPS
on the old Nexus 7, don't you mean 8kkIPS?

(This value was the average while booting Linux)
2015 Ford F-150 to shave weight with aluminum
New evidence suggests Ford’s next-generation F-150 pickup truck will indeed rely on aluminum construction to help reduce weight. Reports have been circling the internet room mill for over a year that Ford’s all-new 2015 F-150 will incorporate aluminum in order to cut weight, but the Dearborn-based automaker has declined to comment on its next-generation truck.
If you're forgetting to update the comments frequently enough to be a problem, you're probably forgetting to update the code that consumes the API too. That quality in general falls by the wayside when you're crunching is no reason to abandon quality altogether.
Not such a new change, for it's been known since at least 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(trojan_horse)
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...
Nobody has yet mentioned a very well known negative result... the Michelson-Morley experiment, a complicated and time consuming endeavour.
Some moderator has evidently taken it upon himself to change the title and append "[video]" to it, and I would very much love to know where the fabled video is on the submitted page, because I haven't managed to spot it.
I put it in my startup script, it runs every login.
The economy is itself a distortion caused by government. In the state of nature there are no economies because as soon as you accumulate a little capital someone clubs you on the head and takes it away. This is why most libertarians are of the statist variety. They talk about the economic distortion caused by government, but what they mean is the distortion caused by the parts of government they don't like (I.e. besides the police, courts, etc). This is a perfectly fine position, but is susceptible to the economic arguments I listed.