skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonsense. All were essentially volunteers. Nobody held a gun to their head; they just put it on a schedule, and the freshmen lined up to comply.

Its actually amusing; these captains of industry were such sheep when they were young. Makes you wonder when they grew a backbone, if at all.
I don't know what's worse - the patent application or the patent illustration.
as an amateur athlete, it's time you learn about sports supplements. if you had, you'll come to realize there are many meal replacement products that can easily satisfy your needs and that has been around for decades. EAS myoplex is the first that comes to mind that not only has a lot of important nutrients, but actually tastes pretty good in my opinion.
Same here. On Windows/Chrome 30 with a window size of about 900x950px, I can't scroll down. Increasing the windows's width or decreasing the height makes it work again.
So maybe a relevant question as we move away from desktop computing is whether your mobile device can be identified through online activity, such as commenting, searching, email etc. This would be useful for locating dissidents.
Similarly, the open source implementation of the Firefox OS RIL daemon can be read here: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/system/go...

(Sadly, it's not used in all production devices.)
No, but you could clone or change your IMEI. Of course, doing so without care might also arouse suspicion, or otherwise betray your ID.
It looks like the author prides himself on reinventing ideas. I've read a handful of his other posts, and he's "reinvented" the Y combinator, the proof of the halting problem, and other such things. It appears that, perhaps partially by a perpetual mishap with diction and connotation, the author claims that his reinventions are original ideas, his opinions are fact, or that his insights are somehow deeper or his arguments are better.

I see this happen all the time, with myself and with others, and I think it's a common thing in mathematics (the author is in CS, so he might not get exposed to this as much as I do). I've seen undergrads finally realize that calculus makes sense and explain how much deeper their understanding is now that they've really thought about it, and I smile and nod my head. I've myself touted my own deep understanding like it's not completely trivial to somebody with years of experience.

I think this article shares that sentiment. The author has thought of on his own accord what we all consider a dead and beaten horse, and is shouting his thoughts from his proverbial mountaintop: no paradigm is perfect for every situation.

Best of luck to him for all his thoughts, but he'd better learn when and where to curb his enthusiasm if he wants others to take him seriously. For the record, this doesn't apply to his personal blog. I expect sooner or later he'll have a post talking about how Haskell's pure style is all about giving the sculpter more clay.
Or any AES-GCM RSA cipher suites for that matter. I complained to Marsh Ray of MS about this.
Give the original poster some credit. He's obviously not a luddite, he's just trying to push through the popular self-delusion that getting a big job, making money, and donating to charity can actually make a difference.
Bitcoin can be even safer to spend online than credit cards, since you're not handing the merchant your card number which they can turn around and use at their whim.

For that to be a reality, we need to combine hardware wallets (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet http://www.bitcointrezor.com/), the new payment protocol (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070), and escrow transactions (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Escrow_Service), but the result would be pretty awesome.
Who can I contact about this?
The "undesirability index" is seriously just google search popularity for random popular songs, plus whether or not they pay.
Japan - Tokyo + History = Kyoto was what I was expecting but I guess the corpus isn't quite there yet. This was the answer .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atpara_Upazila At least it's geographic!
I say it all the time. I camp with the Scouts. One day at work there will be a need to work through the weekend, someone will insist its necessary for the good of the company. What will happen then is, I will go camping with the Scouts. I have my priorities straight, and work is somewhere around number 12.
Because it is "blogspam" and against the policies of this site.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

It is already at least the second submission of this story in the last 24 hours. The previous one is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722938
This is such a fascinating topic because the field of robotics outside of industrial applications is still so nascent. I'm not here to weigh in, just to drop off some useful tidbits for other people interested in this ethical gray area as well.

This theme of "terminators" and "killer robots" has been really prevalent in the field lately because of the DARPA Robotics Challenge[1], the latest in DARPA's Grand Challenges, which I'm currently participating in on one of the Track B teams. Many people see the break away from bomb-squad bots and factory floor robotic arms in to humanoids as a really scary thing, and the DRC seems to amplify that (if a robot can hold a sawzall, it can hold a rifle).

Just last month in Atlanta, the IEEE Humanoids conference took place. Dr. Ronald C. Arkin[2] gave a talk exactly on this topic from an ethics perspective, titled "How to NOT build a Terminator", and it was exceptional. It was a plenary talk and not a paper, so I can't really find any record of it to share. Unfortunate.

Tangentially, the lab that I work in (the robotics group at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition[3][4]) has employed and continues to employ a principle that we call "co-active design"[5] where we actively work to keep a human in the loop at all times; we're definitely not looking to build a "killer robot". It's an interesting design problem that overlaps a lot with UI and UX, popular topics here on HN.

And lastly, a shameless plug for the field itself; a lot of people don't realize just how software-oriented robotics research (especially humanoids, where the fun problems are) is. A lot of people are stuck on it being a hardware endeavor. While it's true that a chunk of robotics falls in the mechanical engineering domain, there's plenty of room for hackers from tons of different disciplines to get involved. There's interesting people solving interesting problems, from the Open Source Robotics Foundation (the Willow Garage spin-off) to private groups like Boston Dynamics, yet so many people still see the field as a black-box that only opens up for the hardware inclined. I could see a talented group with the right hacker mindset doing some really interesting stuff in robotics with the right impetus and execution.

1:http://theroboticschallenge.org

2:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_C._Arkin

3:http://ihmc.us

4:http://robots.ihmc.us

5:http://www.jeffreymbradshaw.net/publications/20101008_Coacti...
Fantastic work and is relevant to something we are working on in this space. Thanks.

On a lighter note I tried "sarah palin + sexy" and I got John Mccain, Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.
If you've got a medbay upgrade (which I like because it offers many 'good' choices to events) then you can easily defend from Mantis boarders, just make sure that you fight in your medbay where you get healed all the time, they'll teleport out when they're almost dead, though - try to disable their teleporter for that moment if you can.
Parting with billions and a reversion to the mean
re: #1, don't you think it would be newsworthy if someone robbed a bank of all its customers' uninsured deposits? That doesn't really happen commonly, and if it did, it would be huge news.
Because they classify it as blog spam, despite explicitly requesting it if you have your own comment to make.

> If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.
sadly, no one.
It's not "blogspam" - it gave a nod to the place I saw it originally, while providing a unique perspective on the subject because of my experience.

1 - The Pitchfork article didn't mention any numbers relating to what the license cost.
2 - I gave context into who David Lowery is
3 - The headline included RapGenius, which most people find news on interesting

That information was provided by me, after discussions with song publishers & research. Changing the title & URL is extremely disrespectful.
I think Opera was the first browser to do so, but Windows SChannel implemented it in the original Win7 RTM release so was not far behind.
NoFap hits Brazil
Thanks man, I'm really glad you like it.
>But NSA wasn't there, and in fact couldn't have cared less, because the nascent Internet wasn't where their adversaries were at.

Yeah, so that pretty much completely undermines your previous point. And again, it's laughable to say that the NSA was just minding its business when a bunch of Americans suddenly got in their way.

>The end goal of an action is definitely part and parcel of the morality of that action. It's inseparable.

You're committing a flagrant logical fallacy here and with your subsequent examples. Intent may help to determine the morality of a thing, but the absense of intent does not necessitate that something is morally appropriate. That is, of course they are completely separable.

>Also, your Gitmo example demonstrates much the opposite point.

It really doesn't. See previous comment regarding intent. Also, you completely miss the point and you seem to be confusing yourself. Your previous assertion was that the NSA's not setting out to violate detainee rights as an end goal absolves them (or matters at all) to some extent. If you agree that "prisons are [or even could be] used for an evil purpose at Gitmo", as you say, then you have conceded my point. That is, whether they intended for Gitmo to violate detainee civil rights as the end goal, the evil that now exists is unacceptable and there are people who are responsible for it. No one is talking about the rightness of prison as a concept or whether serial killers should be incarcerated. That's just strange.

In general, you seem to just throw out a bunch of pedantic or semantic arguments as red herrings and strawmen. You are missing the fundamental points that started this thread.

>Would you be OK with some of those programs then?

See what I mean? I think my feelings on the matter are pretty clear.
Grattis Finbarr!

/Steven from Videoplaza
No disrespect intended, but you are way off here. I eat, and eat more healthy than most, it's just not something I get excited about.
I'm hoping that Rap Genius will fight this as I'm pretty sure Hofheinz v A&E Television Networks sets the precedent for them. The ruling there was that a documentary on Peter Graves was okay because clips from the actor's works were used "for the transformative purpose of enabling the viewer to understand the actor's modest beginnings in the film business," and that "A&E's biography of Peter Graves does not merely purport to supersede the original movie at issue, but to create a new copyrightable film biography."

Each of the annotated Rap Genius lyrics are used to explain and understand where the original artist is coming from and the point of the site isn't just to let people know the lyrics (which is at best half of the work being used, if you were concerned with the 3rd of the criteria on fair use) but to provide original content that explains everything. I don't think they would have a problem winning, but the will and money to win might be a problem :s

I'm not aware of any more recent case law that might supersede this as it has been a few years since I've been in an IP Law class. Anyone know more?
Experience with JW Player or other recommendations?
Anybody have experience with JW Player or other recommendations for video player that plays across all formats and devices? We would be using their enterprise level account...any feedback would be appreciated!
I did appreciate finding out who David Lowery is in the context of research.
Or a full-on cynic/paranoiac would suggest the poorly-done websites are part of a gaslighting scheme.
"I feel so strange posting this comment, since those who would benefit from this advice are probably of dubious character"

I don't think there's too much social harm done in pointing this out. It seems to be so well known that it's referenced (visually or even verbally) in movies and TV shows like Breaking Bad, where the criminals take the batteries out of their phones as an extra precaution against being tracked.
RG, and the others, rely pretty much exclusively on song lyrics to pull traffic from Google.

It's impossible to know who possesses what song in audio form, and it's up to RG if the pass that cost on to their users if they wish to.
A friend of mine has always said that if you want a big f-up in projects then get the government to run it. But if you want something carried out with precision then get the military to do it.

Funny thing is, it doesn't seem to matter where healthcare systems are carried out they always run over time and over budget and end up in a big mess!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24130684
High number of DoS attacks in comparison to what? Sites with equivalent traffic...or? I feel like it's hard to come up with a fair comparison here because each site/service is so different and those characteristics play a big role in whether they are hot targets for attacks.
While operating under the same corporate umbrella, the engineering divisions of WDC and HGST are being kept separate for now as part of an agreement with the Chinese to get their approval for the acquisition. The upshot of this is that HGST drives are going to be a completely separate product line for at least the next few years.
That's the irritating thing -- that so much money is being spent for such poor results. The NSA isn't very cost-effective at preventing terrorist attacks, and healthcare.gov isn't very cost-effective at providing health insurance.

When confronted with my government's incompetence, I never know whether to be pissed off or relieved.
I think true arbitrary-size bignums, because that's what Dart has?
If you remove the SIM you are usually still able to make emergency calls (911, 999, 112), which means it can still connect to cell towers.
pfft, I care as much about Quora as I do Expert Sex Change
Brand-new Unicode REST API
This is a great example of how open source hardware can be sexy.
Protip to all non-sociopaths: You can't fake sincerity. Trying will backfire in the long term.
All examples of people who claimed to owe less than they did. You need to provide an example of "I owe $10000; I don't have it" going to prison. Re: [1], at some point they start freezing assets and collecting the owed amount on their own, but you remain free to walk the streets.
It supports sprites and I also wouldn't play without them - try, for example, the 'lazy newb pack'[1] which includes the popular sprite packs in the installer. There seems to be a newer kit [2] but I haven't tried that.

[1] http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/?topic=59026.0

[2] http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126076.msg425...
capitalism is the idea that the accrual of property (or assets, or 'capital') is a virtue unto itself[0]. Possibly in opposition to others in the 'free market' umbrella who may see the acquisition of assets as a sign that you are providing a social good efficiently (but not necessarily a virtue in and of itself).

[0]there are different styles of this, on the conservative end there are those who tend to value the individual accrual of assets; on the liberal end you might find nationalistic types who measure the greatness of society by how much in assets it accrues or trades (indirectly, by measuring GDP).
Text is horrible at getting emotions across, granted, but it seems like you're more upset (about GP's post) than he is about the Vice piece...

To me, the Vice article was okay. It certainly wasn't a smear piece, but it did (deliberately?) structure things or not talk about important stuff that would cause controversy. For me, I think Soylent isn't for me at all, but for such an extended article on it it sure missed some very important information. This gives the impression of trying to smear Soylent.
We probably should ban them at some point. However, personally I'd like to see an arm's race for the next couple of decades. Massive military spending could fund the R&D needed to get us to commercial uses. Jet fighters, and breaking the sound barrier were driven by the military, for example.

Having said that, I must say that I'm actually quite uncomfortable with machines deciding when to pull the trigger. Robocop is etched in my mind. Hope the remake keeps that scene.
> These are the sorts of nuts-and-bolts reproducibility issues that drive researchers crazy, because they can be affected by things like the specific strain of mice you use, where you buy your chemicals, and even the pH of your lab's water supply. No amount of statistical thinking is going to change any of that.

This screams systematic error and error propagation to me. It's possible that we don't need to up the p-value, we just need to make sure researchers aren't stupid and can properly account for all sources of errors. The problem is that's often an acquired skill over time, not something younger researchers typically think about, especially those who aren't multidisciplinary.
I think this campaign suffers from something of a branding problem in that "killer robots" theoretically includes human-controlled robots.

They need to be extremely up-front that what they're opposed to is autonomous battlefield robots. From the title/link, I assumed they opposed all battlefield robots (like the ridiculous drone) crowd, which is an absurd and extreme position.

Their actual position, of opposing autonomous robots, is a lot more sensible and should be their sole focus.
Well, I certainly am biased, in a way I'm probably not aware of :-)

How? He wrote a ton of great code in a short period of time that worked amazingly well. How else would you tell somebody was productive and skilled?

But, think whatever you want!
"Hill pleaded guilty last year to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8 million between 2005 and 2007."

Not filing your taxes is a step beyond not paying your taxes.
My diet isn't anything out of the ordinary, I just don't get very excited about it.
well, keep in mind that debt forgiveness is deflationary, so if you are obsessively worried about a great depression caused by a deflationary spiral, these people are causing some serious trouble.
Fireside chat with Paul Graham at #GMIC2013
I have a friend that can beat that game every other time it seems. Me? I've beaten it twice with 60 tries. I've never felt accomplishment quite as great as when I finally beat the game for the first time after the 52nd try. I literally stood up and shouted! Don't think I've ever done that before...
Well, to say everything I was sceptic. Then I saw your video of you learning to dance - you should definitely look at that if you didn't already. After one year your progresses are absolutely awesome. That's what worked for me with the video and what might worked too with giveit100: see people starting from scratch and then become awesome into something. Good luck, that's pretty cool.
I've only seen fridges that are made with steel or aluminum. They would still leak RF around the door gaskets, but probably such a small amount that you'd have to be very close to a base station to be vulnerable, and it'd still be mostly soundproof.
Isn't it just the first behind-the-scenes look at food production for most of us? A rat scurrying by on camera just looks worse than what frequently goes on in the storage room of your or my local food market.

As far as the "beta testing on strangers" aspect, I'd point you to sneak's comment[1], which sums up the slight absurdity of requiring one food to be rigorously tested and adhere to some hypothetical standard. I frequently eat MetRx "meal replacement bars"[2] and I don't assume they are held to any rigorous trials. After some cursory research, I don't even know if Plumpy'nut[3] is held to any standard, aside from beta testing it on starving children and seeing if they improve.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722836

[2] http://www.metrx.com/protein-bars/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy'nut
No, not really. The actual answer is more complex.

Camera:

The high data rate required for imaging module means that it doesn't run on a shared bus. There's a number of standards, some proprietary and others loosely defined, but they all use direct connections to the image processor (which is in many cases part of the SoC).

Microphone:

Probably not going to access this one, because microphone wouldn't be on any sort of bus. They'll have a direct connection to a ADC, which would have a direct connection to an audio signal processor in the SoC.

Other sensors:

This depends on the implementation. If they use I2C, there's a good chance they'll be on a shared bus on which the baseband processor is also located. However, accessing that data requires details about the specific sensor. If a particular model of phone is being targeted, this isn't too hard. For example, I know the iPhone 4 uses the LIS331DLH Accelerometer. I can find the datasheet for that part, and then write a simple driver to access it's data.
If they use SPI, which isn't a bus-based protocol, there's little chance of accessing the information directly. SPI devices can be daisy chained or separately selected to put more than one on a single port, but in such a configuration there's only ever one master (which would be the CPU).
The condescending tone is unwarranted and distasteful.

Especially when you so totally miss the point of Soylent vs. sports supplements like Myoplex: The latter are not in any way trying to provide the same. They generally aim for roughly a certain mix of proteins, carbs and fats + various mixes of other ingredients that often seem to be chosen mostly to be buzzword complete.

In fact, here's some sales copy regarding Myoplex:

"EAS recommends supplementing your diet with 2-3 high quality Myoplex nutrition shakes along with 3-4 whole food meals a day to ensure that any nutritional "gaps" are filled. "

I use a lot of supplements - for my protein intake I use or have used a variety of shakes, bars, muffins (yes...), cookies, to complement my high protein "real foods". To date I have never found a sports supplement that tastes nice without being way too high calorie for my use, but I can tolerate that for the convenience.

But more importantly: most sport supplements are very limited in their overall nutritional profile. For a reason - for protein heavy products people tend to focus on whey and to a lesser extent casein, and most products aim to minimize other ingredients unless that are products for specific other purposes, such as weight gainers etc. They're supplements for occasional meal replacement. They are not intended to replace food in general.

And exactly what appeals to me about Soylent is that it might provide a good alternative to fill those "nutritional gaps" mentioned in the Myoplex sales copy, which are pretty much inevitable if you were to stick with only regular sports supplements. As I said: I'm not interested in replacing food entirely, but having something available that I can have reasonable confidence is reasonably complete, that I know the calorie content of by volume, so it's easy to measure and keep track, and that is quick and convenient for when I don't have the time or want the hassle of sorting out a proper meal would be great.
I've suspected this is probably part of it, but wouldn't know where to begin proving/testing it. At this point, I'm not sure I even care.

There are some definite positives, though. I'm not tempted at all by junk food/soft drinks.