skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet another is David Mackay, who taught me at undergrad:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/

scroll to the bottom for the free PDF.

(the book is about all sorts of stuff, but compression is the main example used when defining information theory.)
And the infrastructure in those countries is quite crappy, relationship?
An efficient study method. (A product idea)
surely no one wants to rely on a third party service that is only available online and at the service's whim for their photos.
I SO second this, and I raise you an excellent web-interface to boot. I have it running on a (headless) server and it's simply wonderful. On the tablet, I installed Torrent Manager which can connect to Deluge (and other daemons like Vuze) and it actually handles magnet links from the browser. I'm very happy about this setup.

uTorrent... I had to stop using uTorrent because it just stopped working. All torrents failed before they really started. I don't remember the error but I installed Tixati, which is also very functional (but now I have no Windows machine that I want to use for any torrent-related things anymore).
As someone who just had occipital nerve decompression surgery due to a whiplash injury, I can say I am very excited for self-driving cars. The amount of scar tissue the surgeon removed from those nerves was horrifying, and it was a relatively minor accident.
Totally disagree. the complete work is the source code and binary together. It's irrelevant that the copyrighted work happens to be made out of two CD-ROM's. A movie on two DVD's are not two movies, its the same movie, the same copy of the copyrighted work.

But if you are not happy with that answer, lets look what an US judge said about first-sale doctrine and software licenses:

("Generally, if the copyright owner makes it clear that
she or he is granting only a license to the copy of
software and imposes significant restrictions on the
purchaser's ability to redistribute or transfer that
copy, the purchaser is considered a licensee, not an
owner, of the software.").

(http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/10-15113-7908340.pdf) in the case of Apple v. Psystar

In EU law, there is simply no sale for first-sale doctrine to trigger. The GPL obligations are simply not compatible with what defines a sale transaction.
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If I read this right, Visistat itself says that they aggregate visit data provided by a list of websites that include LinkedIn:

http://www.visistat.com/visistat-solutions-social-media.php
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What's the best work-around to avoid this price jack?
What a mess we've made of this planet over just 100 years.
What scenario would they use [this] info for?

Economic espionage, sabotaging foreign trade talks which aren't judged to be in the interests of the US, gaining the upper hand in negotiations. The potential utility of this sort of SIGINT is high, if you are willing to engage in amoral behaviour on a massive scale, treating allies as enemies.

So the question it raises is, why were they collecting this information? You can be sure they would not collect it for no reason.
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Yes a very poor choice of phrase, esp when he could've used anything else.

He's not alone ; this issue came up just yesterday: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/davidbolt/100071146/how...
They can't be official because we don't have any official projections. We never know in advance how many applications we're going to get, or how many of them will be good enough to fund. We do interviews in 3 parallel tracks; we couldn't accept a specific number of startups even if we wanted to.
40Hex was an ezine about viruses. People might be interested in reading documents from back then. http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/40HEX/
If I had to guess, one thing that makes services like Dwolla less risky than traditional credit cards is that credit card security is built around end users keeping secret a string of numbers written on a plastic card that they hand out to random strangers on a regular basis. As a secondary fraud-prevention measure, merchants may ask you to sign a receipt that may or may not match the one on the back of your card.

To be fair, there are a number of fraud detection algorithms at play as well, but those algorithms often have wholes in them or come into play only after the fraud has occurred.

As an online service, Dwolla requires users to authenticate directly with them, where they can take steps to mitigate fraud by requiring two-factor authentication, etc. Authentication with merchants is handled via a token-based method. In addition, fraud detection may also be substantially easier because Dwolla is privacy to additional information about its users (IP address, purchase details, cookie tracking, etc.) that may not be available to traditional credit card providers. Dwolla may also be privy to additional information that allows them to assess the credit-worthiness of their customers and minimize the danger of default.

This probably doesn't totally explain how Dwolla dropped the cost of fraud detection down to a flat 25 cents (e.g. it doesn't explain why PayPal charges a percentage-based fee), but I bet it's part of the story.
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> All sovereign states--be they allies or rogues--have a legitimate claim to and expectation of privacy where their internal dealings are concerned.

They're governments. They don't have any rights and as local monopolists of violence certainly don't have any expectation of laxity in others' vigilance.
You know what has millions of people and is entirely unlike an individual human being? A country.

The convenient narratives spun to explain international politics seem entirely lost on people and are being treated as literal relations of how countries behave rather then shorthand.

"China" doesn't act like a person. It doesn't have emotions, moods or opinions like a person does. When we talk about "China thinks this" or "China feels that" we are not describing the moods of a human being, we're not even describing necessarily the aggregate mood of it's government except in so far as we're using a shorthand because we want to talk about trends in policy making or the types of people being appointed as advisers/policy-makers on whichever issue we are actually talking about specifically.
relationship > You can't expect governments to do everything. And these countries used to be in authoritarian regimes, so don't blame the private sector, it didn't exist there until recently.
God is perfectly just.

A company made the original Farmville. They had the tremendous ego boost of seeing it succeed. Zynga stole it. Did you think you would never have to work again? Do not covet and get back to work.

Zynga expanded. The CEO must basically manage an office and do payroll for a thousand people. Does that sound fun?

How would you like riding the downside? That would suck.

God says...
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go_ahead_make_my_day once_upon_a_time Watch_this hang_in_there
this_might_end_badly what_would_Jesus_do oops you're_so_screwed
not harder_than_it_looks completely never_happy comedy
hypocrite That's_my_favorite just_lovely
> What if the driver deliberately modified a self-driving car to cause injury to a target?

The same as what would happen today if someone mess with the brakes?
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Do Germans really associate that phrase mostly with Hitler? I find it quite surprising because despite not being German (nor German-speaking) I know that this phrase comes from the first verse of the Deutschlandlied.
The bulk of the 2% goes to the bank that issued the card and they are very reluctant to give up that revenue. One big problem is cardholder affinity for rewards (airlines, cashback and such) which apply on 30-50% of processing volume and is pretty expensive.
Can life-saving gadgets be made in garages?
clearing cookies, or just using incognito mode in whichever browser you are using usually does it. They've been doing this for at least a decade now, IIRC.
I don't think this can be seen as a possible replacement for PC disk because of it's high latency. Beside unless you are very rich Ethernet is only 1Gbit/s.

On the oher hand I see an opportunity as shared storage for mobile and ligthweight devices. Using a single and simple protocol, compared to NAS, could open a new technology domain and market. Of course it requires also a good integrated authentication and access control system because on Ethernet this data might be open to the world.
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It was litigated in the courts in the USSR too. Not so much discussed in public but I am not sure that matters.

The whole issue of making such a taboo topic is that it makes it hard for opposition to mobilize. However in the US we have other ways of doing that. Hyperpartisanship is something which has a remarkably similar effect while at the same time allowing us to say with a straight face that we are not a police state.....
I'm an European and I didn't see a Segway in person until I visited Florida. There I saw loads of security personnel riding Segways.

And they looked so incredibly dorky with their plump bodies and tucked in shirts.
Feel free to maintain a fork and/or discussion forum yourself, I can put a link to it at the very top of the readme.
I agree that oauth is a better solution, but more broadly on this issue account/password sharing is pretty common in the business world because many services don't support multi-user access to accounts.
Network storage macht frei.
Every American will think it's California...

Start typing Uber A... into google and what do you get?
You realize the first thing you do if you're going to attack someone is tell them one thing and then do another, right?

And that a country's leaders are replaceable components - the country doesn't have a personality, it has a government of thousands of individuals, all who subtly bias its aggregate behaviour in different ways, and whom the replacement of various members can fundamentally alter the country's goals, agenda and long-term interests against other countries?

How then, do you intend to maintain your own security if you've decided to simply take the word of one country's government - again, a shifting gestalt of thousands of individuals and millions of citizens goals - as naively true, when there is absolutely no reason or even motivation for that country not to simply lie to you - likely in many cases without even realizing it, as the messengers don't have the situational-awareness to understand the context of the message.
Communication between "smart" cars opens up some good possibilities to increase safety even when the inevitable accident occurs.

Consider: Car #1 suddenly realizes (for whatever reason) it is going to impact car #2 or car #3 at approximately equal energy for either crash, pings both, #3 isn't "smart", no reply. #2 pongs back, car #1 heads for car #2, reports this to #2, car #2 deploys air bags proactively using a lowered-energy inflation mode since there is some advanced warning of the impact and sets its own transmission mode and braking (or lack thereof) to be optimal for safest possible (to inside occupants and other detected cars in the impact area) energy transfer.
this sounds like a hybrid of ataoe[1] and 9p[2], an interesting idea for a protocol

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATAoE

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P
Hegemony depends on the tacit consent of those ruled.

If the US treats the rest of the world as an enemy, and a playground for its war machine and surveillance apparatus, it can expect at some point to earn the enmity of the people in all the countries where it has interfered. This has already happened in the Middle East, East Africa, and South America.

By these actions the US is undermining the only friends it has in the world, and is becoming increasingly isolated.
Because they had no clue that a calculator could be used for other things than calculating :)
oops sorry I thought the story was older, I didn't check the time frames.
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While the origins of the phrase are not tied to the Nazis, it has become associated with them. It was originally about the unification of Germany, but it is viewed quite differently now and certainly associated with the far right or the extreme right.

The verse of the Deutschlandlied that contains it is also no longer used, only the third verse is the national hymn.
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Hm, no power-over-ethernet in the design? I guess that really is a good thing. Maybe.
That's a nice stroll through memory lane. Well, a quick stroll. Those are painful games to play by today's standards.
No. I have no relationship with LinkedIn other than as a user.
I love it, but I'm a bit worried about how it will fare, how stake will be distributed, etc.

They barely started, and some projects already have 86 people registered to work on them... how would that work? If this works out; you'd see projects with 8000 people 'working' on it; I wonder if that would make it worth your while (besides being fun).

It isn't discussed, but I think there should be some management where you can steer the project/members a bit.
(some years later) Apple finally catches up with Jenkins
I upgrade my hardware once in a few years. For the last 3 years I've been using Core 2 Duo E7200 + 1GB RAM + 500 GB HDD. Before that I'd been working on Pentium 200 MMX + 64 MB RAM + 20 GB HDD for around 8 years. Before that I had Amiga 600 + 20 MB HDD. There's an adage saying: develop on old hardware and you'll get a free profiler. ;-)
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The empirical data is not about constantly increasing income. It's about a number of things, but the most striking is that in a deflationary environment, wage (and other price) changes have an abnormally large peak at a change of zero; this peak does not fit into any simple assumption about how price changes should be distributed (in particular, it is clearly not a normally distributed effect).
Co-workers always! You know their most recent + relevant strengths/weakness.
Tech here:

What did you scan your bios with?

How did you format your laptop?

What system are you running? Windows 8 or 7?

How did you activate your windows OS?

What is the exact model number of your laptop?

answer as much as possible so I can help
If you run a VPN server on a VPS you control, why can't you then run a DNS proxy on it too?
> Compared to what you got 5 years ago, they might be smaller and have better power efficiency. But on the grand scale, how does that matter?

This is insane, wrong, and dishonest. How old are you? I'm 30 and during my adult life (the past decade, basically) we've gone from phones that were essentially unreliable walkie-talkies with shitty battery life to ultra fast portable computers with 10 megabit internet connections and 4 or 5 different onboard technologies (gps, camera, etc).

WTF are you talking about sir. Do we live on the same planet?
Gaining a decision advantage for the Nation should not trump morality - some advantages or ways of gaining an advantage are clearly immoral.

For example, releasing a genetically engineered virus which killed the entire population of the South American continent would gain a decisive advantage for the US nation, because it would open up lots more lebensraum and could be invaded and settled, but it's not usually seen as an acceptable way to behave.

Unacceptable actions include cheating on your allies, treating your enemies like animals, massacring civilians in or out of wartime, etc. Cheating on allies is particularly damaging because it means no one will trust an American from now on.
A bicyclist must adjust his weight to handle the bike. That seems tough to automate away.
Well, junk^Wfast-food chains also growing, so what? What is popular ins't even good in the most cases. Just a Bandwagon + Peer effects as it is in case of Java.

And, of course, defacto server-side OS is Linux. So-called Desktop will be theirs for a long long time, but not because the OS is of any good - it is meaningless a bloatware, but because of word.exe and excel.exe which it seems to be here forever.

As for their services, well, forcing sheeple to use IE and Bing by re-writing their browser's settings doesn't account for even for popularity. IE is crap compared to Chrome, and even some sheeple could see that, but most of them just doesn't know any better, so they got stuck with IE and Bing.

And to appreciate the absurdity, just look what is happening with all those Java apps, which are supposed to run everywhere, with each new release of Windows, which are supposed to be 100% backward-compatible.)
Merkel is reacting this way because it plays well with a group of people who don't realize that they're actually wildly outside of their field of expertise on an issue.
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If the car crashes, I don't see how it would be easier to replace the offending physical part, or replacing the offending digital part.

However, its true that you might have a easier time to see a giant crack, but would you see material fatigue? would you see improper engineered breaks? Would you notice if instead of using steel in a critical point, they happened to use a more weaker metal like aluminum?

I guess the big difference is in user behavior. No one would go and buy BillyJoe's breaks from some alleyway, especially if it looked like they manufactured the stuff out of paste. However, some people might happily install breaks from an email attachment, sent by fishy Joes Nigeria email service. Especially if it said "Cheep UpGrade to the car braks!".

Im not sure if that should matter in the long run. It shouldn't require that government create a new law, like a Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair software Act.
Very neat article. This is essentially calculus with infinitesimals (also called "nonstandard analysis") implemented on the machine. If you like the approach, a more general and rigorous investigation can be had by reading H. Jerome Keisler's book Elementary Calculus, which is freely available online in the 2nd edition here:

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html

The third edition is now in print. I've been studying calculus with it off-and-on for a while and I find the approach very intuitive, though Spivak's Calculus is probably a better book, the "standard analysis" is a little less intuitive (and now, evidently, harder to teach a machine).
Yeah, I was excited until I got the point about "our servers". Why would they need any data on their servers just to know when I need to read email?

But it's a good idea, hopefully easy to copy and release as an actual app (something I define as an executable that runs *on' a device, not a glorified json interpreter and exchange system).
Brilliant stuff! Hack the physical world with peanut sized motes :)
Countries and the people who make them up also form alliances, hate betrayal, and hold grudges. If your country thinks it is acceptable to betray allies, you will soon have no allies. If you say one thing and do another and the gap is wide enough, eventually no other country will believe a word you say, even when you tell the truth.

Alliances between countries are not formed in a rational way just on a specific issue normally, but based on previous actions and previous issues, and old loyalties. To betray those loyalties just means no-one will feel any loyalty to you - that may work in the short-term if you are big enough but long-term it's a terrible strategy.

So in that sense countries are like people, though I agree in many senses they are not.
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I think this is an incredibly interesting approach, and I hope Seagate open it up a little more. If we could run some computation on the drive, that could be incredibly powerful.

I can imagine that once these are SSD drives, paired with reasonably powerful (likely ARM) chips, that we'll have massively parallel storage architectures (GPU-like architectures for storage). We'll have massive aggregate CPU <-> disk bandwidth, while SSD + ARM should be very low power. We could do a raw search over all data in the time it takes to scan the flash on the local CPU, and only have to ship the relevant data over (slower) Ethernet for post-processing.

I'd love to get my hands on a dev-kit :-)
Yea, I have a ten year old Toshiba P26-S2607 I still use on a daily basis.

I have a one year old MBP that I haven't used much; I'm
not sure why, but the screens seem the same?

I do know one thing about most old laptops; they were made
to last longer than 2 years.

That said--HP--as made crappy laptops for quite some time.
I bought one a few years ago and it was horrid on an
engineering basis, but it looked Slick.
But why did I have to read HN to find this out? It destroyed the good vibe, as did the disappearance of the simple method to change lists.
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Yeah, but can you trust capacitors nowadays?
Gigabit ethernet used to be ungodly expensive. Once 40G or 100G ethernet starts hitting production switches, 10G will start to become economical.
I've never needed a hugh hard drive. External HD's work
fine for me.
Attribution for that analogy should be given to Citrix http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/01/09/do-ultrabooks-mean-ultra-...
Why wouldn't sociopaths have facebook? It's an excellent arena to play out little mind-games.

I don't doubt some HR departments would act on something like that, although they probably wouldn't stop hiring people that have a resume with strong leadership positions even though there are studies showing a correlation between attaining management positions and sociopathy...
As Bismarck (although I came across it on 'Yes, Minister') apparently said

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
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You have a coworker who burp loudly? or hijack your meeting? a neighbor who practice drum at night.. let them know modestly without facing them.
Meh, in an ideal world google search results would only result in one search result: the one I am looking for. This seems to go along with what's happening when someone searches "southwest airlines"
visakanv wrote this good comment: "This is correct. The better our flight technology gets, the more we push our planes to fly in rough weather, etc."

visavanv, it looks like you got hellbanned between 10~14 days ago, possibly because of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6548892
> Right, and... what would the harm be there? Is that just a fundamental value for you?

For those that haven't read it, I still recommend this as a good introduction to some fundamental ideas around why privacy should/could be considered a basic right:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
I agree, so we can't make any inferences about them at this point. The problem with the libertarian hypothesis is that it lacks any reasonable examples to support it. There are however plenty of examples of governments that do work pretty well; even the USA is not as dysfunctional as many would like to believe.
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If you don't want people to know where you're going, why are you taking a cab? How would you prevent the taxi driver from knowing where to send you?
I've been playing with it too, and have written my own API using Flask & Python for a local company application. I've based my architecture on most of their designs. Very impressed with how clean and intuitive Parse API seems to be.
Thousands is kind of downplaying it too. 32 thousand in the us alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

Probably in the hundreds of thousands globally.

Self-driving cars can't come fast enough.
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