skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mediating disputes =/= Government

You need to understand that libertarians are not against mediation or even courts. If someone commits fraud, or pillages the environment, there are plenty of ways of punishing them without government. Appreciate the value of reputation.
Using Chrome 30 on OS X, I am getting the following error when trying to play the video:

"[blocked] The page at https://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/ ran insecure content from http://www.youtube.com/embed/RaRIdLgZTPI?autoplay=1."
I think it's no longer accurate to think of this as "MS-focused attack but only because OS X is not as popular". Today, iOS is used by many more people than OS X as their primary computing device and I would say it's pretty safe from this type of attack.
Would it actually help? Does the ransomware contact the servers prior to encrypting everything?
Supposedly the built in 'Remote Assistance' feature gives you screen-sharing and uses the RDP protocol. I wouldn't expect it to work with this app, though.
Thanks for making me aware of this. This is linux specific but something like this seems to be available on Mac OS X (https://github.com/alandipert/fswatch).

I don't quite understand where in your command you specify that make is executed? Could you expand on that.
I won't argue the less vs more, that's an age old debate. However, this part:

"Explicitly writing out the intention of a piece of code in plain English often makes the concept much clearer in my brain"

I think is critical for me. I actually write code by first doing a pseudo-code pass of comments, where I just write the flow of what I think the code should be doing. Then go back and fill in the actual functionality behind the comments. Naturally, its not always perfect on the first pass, but you just mod the comment thought process to update your approach, and then refill the functionality. As a programmer, you can then skim down through sections just checking what its "supposed" to do, whether you're a newbie diving in, or the original writer who's just needing a refresh.
Could you give some tips or links on how to go about emulating an architecture? I would like to know how to go about emulating an architecture much less complicated like PIC.
Norving missed an excellent chance to title this paper "The structure and interpretation of science experiments"
Doesn't Google Chrome run under %AppData% in a default (non-MSI) install? (This is how it's able to silently update itself, even when run as a non-administrator.)
There's nothing more wishful than hoping the watchers do their jobs, without watchers themselves. Ad infinitum.
Why would ryanisinallofus need to reconcile those things? He is a vegetarian.

I'd say that we meat-eaters are the ones who have to reconcile them.
> The axiom that God doesn't exist is exactly on the same level as the one that he does.

Yes, generally, P and ~P are either both claims subject to empirical investigation, or both claims not subject to empirical investigation. "God exists" and "God does not exists" are not in the class of claims subject to empirical investigation.

That doesn't contradict anything I said (in fact, its barely even relevant to anything I said; Creationism, after all, is not the same thing as the claim that God exists, though it necessarily assumes that claim; to the extent its relevant to what I said, it supports my note that Creationism isn't an empirically falsifiable position.)

> As for being falsifiable, there still isn't any evidence for macro-evolution

Not only is there abundant evidence of macro-evolution, theories about macro-evolution make specific predictions about future observations which are falsifiable. Creationism does not make any falsifiable predictions.

> Evidence of that kind would certainly falsify the predictions of creationism.

No, evidence of macro-evolution (which exists, abundantly) doesn't falsify predictions of Creationism, because Creationism has no predictions to falsify. Evidence of macro-evolution is readily explained within the interpretive framework of Creationism (as is pretty much anything within any interpretive framework which presupposes the existence of an all-powerful supernatural entity.)
This is awesome.

You might want to consider re-ordering the font list in the console though. Consolas isn't perfectly fixed-width apparently, and it made Rogue rather puzzling to play.
"How would you defend murder of civilians as PM?" [Eton app question]
Do you have a specific software in mind you want to work on? Specific task? Interest? Like I said, I started out to fix things affecting me. I would dive into the code a bit to see what went wrong. For projects like angular.js I don't have any knowledge how to fix things so I simply file bug. For projects written in Python I am more comfortable hacking.
You know whenever I see spats like this I feel compelled to point that governments cause such profound economic distortion that we really can't speak of what a 'free' society would be actually be like - it's so far removed from anything humanity has known in a very long time.

We're all (more or less) coders here, right? What happens when we tinker with a big, complex, undocumented system that nobody really understands? Government as a concept isn't so much tinkering as it is a blindfolded child refactoring by typing with his elbows.
I've been asked to change my app name, what can I do?
I've got a kids book on iOS that has a(very)similar name to a BtoB app on OSX (for developers).
I'd like to change it and not be an ass, but its a very generic name firstly. And secondly the name fits my book perfectly as well as the naming convention of my new and future books.
Has anyone else had this issue? How did you handle it?
Thanks,
Dave.
I didn't build my own desk, but I did modify it with a home made cable management system for less than U.S. $12: http://boston.conman.org/2011/07/11.1
Wouldn't a more relevant statistic be trading volume? Stats for that (at least for the US market) are here:

http://www.sifma.org/research/statistics.aspx

It looks like the US bond market daily trading volume is about 25 times higher than the US stock market daily trading volume. However, that statistic is highly skewed by trading in US treasury bonds, which arguably should be a separate category. The same would presumably apply to the stats on market cap.

Also, it's not the relative size of the equities markets that's the problem; it's the amount of effort and talent that goes into what is essentially a zero-sum activity. Bonds and futures (and, to be fair, new stock issues) are positive sum. HFT is not.

(More precisely, HFT is only positive sum to the extent that it improves price discovery and therefore market efficiency; but I have a really hard time seeing how shaving a few more microseconds off trade times changes that significantly. It does, however, significantly change who is able to benefit from asymmetric information by inducing others to take the wrong end of zero-sum trades, which is what HFT is designed to do.)
> Some of these people also believe the government is run by lizard Jews from outer space.

Oh man, see? that's something I could get behind.
Yes, I was able to install Google Chrome on a PC which the user didn't have administrative rights just yesterday. It delighted me to no end.
This really is extremely well done [and I'd like to see the unminified source]. The next feature I'd want to see is networking support. I love the idea to be able to run my entire dev setup in an emulated browser session [e.g. ruby, rails, redis]. That would be a game changer on how I'd develop.
Not only nginx, also Apache.
"Government Grope"
Heh...

So can the American Government.

The difference is...

if your own Government puts you in a cage...

you actually have rights.
Relevant xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/1200/
I'm not sure where you're looking. Page 3, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. Last 12 months ended 6/30/2013, $4.5B CFO, ($5.8B) CFI, $2.8B CFF. Without issuing debt, their net cash would have decreased.

You are essentially arguing that the investment expenditures will fade over time, leaving Amazon strongly free-cash-flow positive.

I am saying that, at present, the only reason they generate cash is that they issued debt, and that we need to look carefully at the nature of the cash expenditures on investments, as I believe many will likely continue (and that some of them are really recharacterized operating expenses).

The question is whether those investment expenses are truly optional/one-time. Neither of us knows for sure.
Thanks for those benchmarks!

You get a big boost by using multiple Puma workers on MRI. Under Rubinius you should be able to only use one Puma worker for max performance, right?

I'd love to see benchmarks with Rubinius... ;)
Now if Microsoft would just update their RDC client for OS X...
I used to do that too. Now I squash my overwhelming desire to leave and I give it a shot. Almost everytime, I leave with a much better understanding of the product.
I tried the freedos image, says something about 400kips and then down to 0. Nothing ever shows. FF 17.0.9 ESR on 1386 freebsd 8.3
Language is part of the tooling. For example, if you have a language that compiles to js which always passes JSLint, then you don't need JSLint any more. Removing the need of a tool is even better than developing a tool.

CoffeeScript generates less code than Dart, it runs faster thus has its strength in scaling.

In fact, you can already do operator overloading in Javascript using valueOf and side effects. It's a bit tricky though. The Dart approach of operator overloading works more sanely.

If two languages compile to the same runtime (Javascript). Syntax is the only thing we can compare. Many so called "syntactic sugar" do fix design problems of Javascript, please don't ignore them.
> Silicon Valley does not need DC, it is hindered by DC

Then why doesn't Silicon Valley exist in some place without an effective government?
Well that's moderately horrifying. I've dealt with ransomware before, but mostly it just used scary messages, not literally encrypting all your data.
Good guess, that's correct
At 2000 kIPS you may have a few generations of javascript engines to go before we get there.

That's not meant to take away from this project - it truly is amazing what can be interpreted in the browser now.
your argument is a strawman: "no evidence => no TSA / no aircraft-boarding security." that is clearly not a rebuttal of the argument that is presented, which is that the TSA has previously presented the existence of terrorist plots against aviation as a reason for sticking their hands down passengers' pants and performing nude scans of passengers. but the TSA's reasons have turned out to be false, so therefore we should not let the TSA stick their hands down passengers' pants nor perform nude scans of passengers
no network interfaces :( boo. rm -rf or halt -f are fun.

this is great work. would love to see source un-minified.
I must have interpreted the "finally" in "on day 7, examine the containers recording whether active/placebo and finally, starting over as day 1 of a new pair of 3-day blocks."

And control: see http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/01/12/what-does-it...
I'll put it online soon. I haven't figured licensing out yet and need to write some technical notes
They have! It's available on the Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id7...
He's saying that he wonders if the point of the article is to give those that deny scientific studies in a non-scientific manner ammo.

Something they can point to to rebuke scientific studies because they don't believe the scientific study is valid.

I too didn't understand the point of this article. Nor how it showed that science is not self-correcting. To me it just talked about some issues with scientific research but didn't support it's headline at all. I've never heard anyone claim that science was self-correcting in the short term, these things take decades and sometimes even centuries to self-correct.

And honestly that's ok. Science is all about having the best answer we can have, not the right answer. It's impossible to know we are right beyond the shadow of a doubt. We need to scrutinize how we research and improve our methods as we figure out how to but that doesn't mean science has some major issue. That's jut how it works and how it has historically worked as far as I know.
A lot of people say this is no big deal because other solutions are available.

However a big value add that Microsoft has is really amazing performance with their remote desktop systems, compared to most other competitors.

Even when other companies use the same RDP protocol the performance is usually not as good, and things like VNC and TeamViewer have much lower refresh rates.

Other solutions have some unique features that are useful, but for pure performance it doesn't get much better than this.
Yep. People generally want to help, but they're also mindful of their bandwidth (especially the successful, busy people who can offer the best help).

So ask for help, but don't waste their time.
In the case of the tooth fairy you ask your parents and they confirm that they paid you money for your teeth in some sort of [weird] ritual. Then the onus is on those who consider the parents to be lying to establish that.

I don't think you can honestly say that is akin to the questions of the existence of a personal God or of a controlling mind or of [merely] a creative deity.
Use http://jsbeautifier.org/?
Establishing and preserving your startup culture
How do mindless ad hominem attacks add to the discussion?
Does it matter if you consider employing several vans running into the airport during holiday rush hours?

If dangerous is present at any moment in time, what do we do? How can we reduce searchable threats? Can we do a scan on entrance to and exit from airport lobby?
You mean zram, right?
I've been using that for months on Gentoo, it gave me about 10% speedup.
Maybe you already have it available too, try:

$ sudo modprobe zram
Networking is on the todo list. I couldn't host the traffic, though.
Well, inevitably its partly that.

But it seems there are is a real finding here even if we avoid the word species entirely. Basically it's evidence of morphological diversity within even a very narrow definition of the word species. If you know that bulldogs and Yorkshire terriers are the same species it's a lot easier to argue that your fossil of a great Dane is too, even though it looks very different. That means you don't need millions of years to evolve it. If the diversity is there in the species, selective pressures can make a different looking variety/subspecies quickly.

Modern humans are not that diverse in size. An adult males weigh 50-85kgs. If you find a population of individuals weiging 120ks, you will conclude that these are probably a different species.
Lower risk, but it probably reduces income: how many people can figure out how to make a bitcoin payment? How long does it take to make a bitcoin payment? The harder it is, the more likely the target is to give up and do without.
> [Dr Nedergaard] told the BBC: "This is purely speculation, but it looks like the brain is losing a lot of energy when pumping water across the brain and that is probably incompatible with processing information."
Yea, Chrome DevTools has a pretty print option too, but if they ran it through something like closure compiler it renames all the vars. Would like to browse source on github or comparable -- also see the history :)
Only because people can't email you apps to run on your phone. Which, last I checked, is why HN thinks iOS is a terrible, freedom restricting walled garden of evil.
To be fair, they might also compete by having wider lanes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq3w7RVnvc
[Seinfeld - The Pothole]
Yup. That's been the standard practice for the past 10 years, to avoid having to request media from an offsite vendor. Used to use VSS on SANs.

(Tested backups are the first three rules of IT.)
while read; do make; done
Why do you care what version Ruby Ubuntu uses? Using ruby from repos is essentially unsuppported by the ruby community.
Totally in agreement. I've emailed business owners relevant questions to projects I'm working on and 8 times out of 10 they reply back. I keep it short, to the point, and thank them up front for their time.

Also, I see too many people that say something like, "No one wants to help me." Everyone WANTS help; to get help you need to give some. Start networking like crazy, find out what someone else needs and provide that. It takes time and dedication, but you will be reciprocated.
I wonder if amount of $300 was determined via A/B testing as optimal for bringing maximum profit.
Consoles isn't perfectly fixed width? That sucks. Till now it was my go-to fixed width font.

I assumed something named consolas would be a font suitable for consoles.

Which font do you like to use?
The question on everyone's mind now is, can you bypass that need?
The other big deal is that an Official app means a lot more when talking to some management people. "We are using Microsoft software to talk to Microsoft software" is a pretty easy statement. Also, if you work at one of those places that have approved vendors[1] then this is great.

1) did that once, oh my but it was more bureaucratic than some government agencies
Pretty slick and usable for first version. A few more tweaks like ability to pan the desktop so you could actually click the close button on maximized windows would make it the perfect RDP client on Mobile. (I used PocketCloud for some time but the recent versions are not updated for some time and thus buggy at least with Android 4.3.)
This isn't actually a new development - the (wonderful) Photosynth mobile app started out on iOS before being ported anywhere else.
Dark pools exist because these "real investors" you speak of are muppets. If you're a market maker out in the big bad world you are exposed to adverse selection risk - i.e. you're up against smarter, better informed or faster traders who hurt your profits. If you set up a dark pool, you can pick and choose your customers, and keep these people out. You can quote tighter in the dark pool than the wider market, so your customers think they're getting a great deal, but in reality they're only getting this deal because they are (collectively) great big juicy marks who you can make a fortune from.

This is why you see the big investment banks setting up dark pools, they can't compete in the technology race or with smaller more agile firms, so they retreat to these pools.
In Tech, Age is the Great Equalizer
It would be interesting to see the images that would be generated if you took that system and "ran in backwards", insofar as that's possible.
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They are trying... https://blueseed.co/
Modern humans are not that diverse in size. An adult males weigh 50-85kgs. If you find a population of individuals weiging 120ks, you will conclude that these are probably a different species.

Haven't been in the U.S. much, have you? :-(
Then and now: On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog (updated) (image)
FBSnapshotTestCase, Facebook's open source test cases for iOS UIs
I do like the "set the resolution" feature that was absent in the old one.
Creator here.

This is the first version, and as a designer pretty much my first open source project, so let me know if you have feedback or something that should be done better. I wanted to push it out though if it helps other people to design their blogs, or startups that just want start blogging quickly.
> Backups are, obviously, a much better solution but require extra storage and usually cost money.

And the virus will encrypt anything writable, so the backup needs to be "pull", if the infected machine is the one doing backups and has write access to a non-cold-storage backup location it will may encrypt the backup itself.
Tarsnap is the only sensible backup provider given the recent history of warantless secret searches in America. SpiderOak is also a contender for file sharing. Both use end-to-end encryption knowable only to the end-user.
Wow, very impressive! What are your plans for this? Any plans to open source?
Much of Wireshark uses not only GTK, but Glib as well. I'm wondering how the move to Qt will affect plugins that manipulate the Glib structures, as I'm assuming these will also be migrated to Qt.

What I'm trying to get at is: as the maintainer of a Wireshark plugin, what should I be doing to prepare myself for the switch? Will I need to start maintaining to versions of the plugin, one for Glib and one for Qt?
you don't even need to improvise - first class passengers get metal steak knives for their meals...
Because airplanes are so highly leverageable from a single act into overreactionary freedom-stifling societal damage. One shoe bomber and now billions of traveler-hours are wasted shoeless at the checkpoints. Airplanes have so many eyes on them and every involved entity must overreact to prove We Are Doing Something.

Grade schools wouldn't have the same impact because the control is more localized. There's no federal Education Security Administration imposing gropefests everywhere in response to Newtown. Some schools and places will overreact, but a small proportion.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you'd have previous versions to work with. It would be important to check though.
Absolutely. This would be awesome.
...wow. Just, wow. You, my friend, are awesome.
"you need to pay 300 USD / 300 EUR / similar amount in another currency"

How about 300 VND? Seems similar to me. :)
Very impressive.

Interesting bug: I can't seem to type '-', '=', '+', or '_' into the Linux image. Missing '-' in particular makes it hard to run commands with options.

Elaborate workaround:

/root% eval eq$(dmesg | grep 'e820 update' | sed 's/.*) \(.\).*/\1\1/')
/root% echo $eq
=
/root% eval dash$eq$(uname bad 2>&1 | grep Usage: | sed 's/.*\[\(.\).*/\1/')
/root% echo $dash
-
/root% uname ${dash}a
Linux (none) 2.6.34.14 #44 Tue Oct 15 20:50:15 CEST 2013 i586 GNU/Linux

The first command grabs an '=' from dmesg and sets "eq" to it (without typing '='), and then the second command grabs a '-' from the usage message of uname and sets "dash" to that (without typing '-'). The last shows how to use ${dash} in a command.
Or drive several vans with just gas and rush into the airport during holiday. You don't even need a bomb. Just leak the gas and light a match and boom.

I think you have made a good point that others are ignoring. Surely TSA scan is not very effective, but what the heck else do we do?

* intel is too powerful, stupid PRISM is hurting everyone's privacy

* TSA is destroying privacy

* I don't know what else to do

What else do we do? I am constantly afraid of someone hijacking my flight.
Would you consider posting a screenshot of what the initial (infection) e-mail looks like?
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Nothing needs to be done about overreaching state surveillance? Are there any historical examples of states that didn't use state surveillance to quash dissent?
> Use ZFS and make read only snapshots

IIRC ZFS snapshots are read-only by definition. Clones are the writable ones.
> One important part of StoryWorth is that these stories are saved for future generations.

Is this actually promised anywhere on the site? What happens if you stop paying the $49/year? What happens if they go out of business?
I'm testing in Firefox 24. If you could tell me what the error console outputs, I'll try to fix it.
The only virus I ever got was the SevenDust 666 virus on Mac OS 8. An infected machine would have a "666" extension that couldn't be deleted (it would instantly replace itself) and then start losing files. So losing files as a target has been around for many years.

The interesting change to me is that now viruses have been effectively monetized.
Dynamic translation of x86 sequences could give you some boost, as could use of asm.js.
Yes, and we should ban cars for the sake of horse and buggy drivers.

How can anybody take mandated inefficiency seriously?