skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Drone warfare (whether by land, sea, or air) is about using disposable machines to kill and injure human beings'

The disposable machines are built by human beings belonging to a nation (or entity) who are interested in self-preservation and protecting the nation. Of course profit doesn't hurt.

Thinks about this. Lately, the rich nations are facing shortage of men willing or able to risk death/injury. The populace lacks the stomach.

And the 'poorer' nations (ones with little to lose) have no qualms about bloodshed as long as they get what they want.

I see drones in warfare as inevitable. How autonomous will they be? Think no one knows for sure at this point...
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First, it's not why. It's that this is possible. Please don't say "this is impossible because this doesn't make sense".
Second, I agree with you. Normally people don't need to do this unless they hate their hard drives. :-) But there's some special cases, for example when the disk is "volatile", or when you want a huge chunk of continuous physical address and you want to tell the OS to stay away and don't touch any pages inside.

PS: An interesting thing is that Windows people always seek for a way to enlarge disk cache. It's fine on server versions, but on desktop versions such as Windows 7, if I don't remember wrong, disk cache is capped at ~4GB(not sure if globally or per file). Oh well.
Why I Stopped Coding
> You're allowed to leave your apartment if people come to your door.

The FBI and co. are not regular people.

> It's a free country you can leave and enter your premises as you see fit.

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to imply. I mean, if it's such a free country then why did the FBI special agents make note of the fact that they "witnessed Mr. Levison leave the rear of his apartment, get in his car, and drive away" and furthermore why did they include this noted piece of information in the court brief. My understanding of it is that they are insinuating?/stating? that Ladar Levison actively evaded the law. Anyway, it's a minor issue, is it not?
Try: psp - sony + nintendo

Result:

1. Gameboy Advance

2. Nintendo DS

3. Nintendo Gamecube
based on the fact that he gave Fox control to destroy his cell phone surveillance. I think he would be pro snowden
"Worse than", as in "six orders of magnitude worse than"

Hashcat on a single PC (with an appropriate video card) can test over 5 billion passwords/second, and salted MD5 passwords barely slow it down at all (the Joomla result below is for MD5(password + 32CharSalt)). The salt helps, because I can't just look the hash up in a rainbow table (or google for it), but you should expect any password to have ever been made public from any other exploit to be on somebody's wordlist and to fall in seconds to any attacker with a few hundred bucks worth of video card, and any combo of two or three dictionary words with or without obvious letter-number substitutions to fall in well under an hour.

With bcrypt, that comes down to under 4 thousand attempt per second. That makes password cracking one million times harder.

from http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/

MD5: 5144M c/s
Joomla (MD5): 4609M c/s
bcrypt: 3788 c/s
It sounds like they really wanted PostGIS. Though they never mentioned it. Or how MySQL has spatial extensions.

Really, I'm at a bit of a loss as to why they switched, but congrats and good luck. Glad to see another MariaDB mention. Just found Galera myself. Wish WordPress supported Postgres.
this looks like an interesting chess game
Is it a repost if it was before a substantial number of readers were born??
http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/3d-printed-metal-gun/

There are already metal printing processes which can manufacture firearms. Still expensive though. Its relatively straight forward to build a black powder musket in your garage though.
Bonfire 0.7 - For Codeigniter folks
Right, don't bother exposing the biggest Constitutional violation of this century, because you might have to take on a part-time job while you're in exile...

(If you weren't serious, I apologize!)
Mandatory cloud connectivity is detrimental to the usability and security of an automation system. I, for one, will never add non-optional cloud features to my own automation products.

Some day I want to see more systems with a decentralized architecture, where cloud servers, if used at all, only help facilitate a secure VPN connection between the user's device (e.g. a phone) and the user's home network.
Obligatory link to good, reproducible and widely optimized benchmarks: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...
That story just never made it to the front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6694279 (5 days ago)
It would be like buying a car that has to check in with [ed: GM] every time I want to start the engine.

Isn't that called OnStar?
At least flipping the switch would be illegal.

The difference between robots and weapons is that with robots there would be no death toll on one side. If there is no death toll is a country at war? Would the media cover it? Would the public care?
Samsung intel supporting Tizen
Samsung intel, together with 34 companies team up to put effort on Tizen, OS allowing JS/CSS/HTML programming.

For web programmer, I think it is a great news.
The bare truth is "almost certainly."
The NSA has probably already figured this out.
Just because a ship misses an iceberg doesn't mean that spotting the iceberg was a waste of time.
The process is expensive because it's a very low volume product and it's a heterogenous mixture that needs to be stored and processed without separating, rather than an alloy. It has been possible to print with metal clay for a very long time, with every paste extrusion setup made so far, the major problem is material cost and firing. I don't expect an object made with metal clay to handle 5000psi in compression, but it might be possible with some clever geometry. The major issue with metal clay is that is behaves like clay in many ways, severely limiting geometry that can be fired without breaking. You can think of it as very high viscosity solder paste.
Sure if you like to wait 8 weeks for your money.
Sorry, but that's just plain wrong. Everything was being implemented in C from embedded control to PC apps with C++ just around the corner.
Being able to afford it and actually doing it are two very different things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXing

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2013/2000_km_dx_using_...
More disclosure as far as anyone can really tell.

I guess its a metric on its own just not a very good one.
Would that be relevant to people outside the US, though? I guess they cannot legally go around, charging people with aiding a fugitive, all over the world. (Or maybe that's just overly naïve on my part)
wildcard certs only support 1 level of subdomains. they would need to purchase a wildcard for *.download.cyanogenmod.org.
A 600-Foot-Tall City On Wheels, For When It's Time To Get Away From It All
There was an error in my calculations, which are based on freshman college physics I took in the 90s, so never mind.

Attempt #2:
Gravitational potential energy = kinetic energy = .5massescape velocity^2. = .5human bodyweight kg 11,200 m/s. Convert the units and you've got a few years worth of calories (which I think I mixed up with kilocalories the first time).
ReactOS takes an initiative and gets part of its kernel rewritten in c++
ReactOS takes an initiative and gets part of its kernel rewritten in c++
Aleksey Bragin, the project coordinator writes [reactos.org]:
"Monstera is a new implementation of a memory manager (along with a cache manager) compatible with the ReactOS kernel at source code level and providing the same binary compatible Native API through a lightweight wrapper. Monstera is implemented in a subset of C++ programming language. ...
Key ideas:
1. Object oriented language for object oriented kernel. When NT was implemented, C++ wasn't that good.
...
4. Don't drift away too much. It's still based on NT architecture, but think of it as if Microsoft Research would decide to reimplement NT in C++ for fun."
Classical works could take you for a spin. Plato's The Republic is deceivingly easy to follow, its format hiding a wealth of philosophy and political theory.
Like others said, open source it, get a community and profit. But they left out one hugely important step... trademarks. Get your trademark, make sure it is a defensible name and register in every market you think you might ever operate in.

As far as which license, GPL/AGPL are good options, but you may get more mileage out of an MPL or Artistic License 2.0 license.
I have very little sympathy for his monetary plight. He made his bed, let him sleep in it.

Or rather, when your giant paycheck comes from the government, maybe torquing off that government in the most flamboyant way possible isn't the best of ideas.
Sorry if I hurt your feelings, but I seriously think black humor is a good tool to give perspective -- the left around where I grew up pushed tens of millions of dead under the carpet. (E.g. the stories from volunteers that left for Soviet in the 30s were oppressed until well after 1989.)

3000 dead is, sadly, a rounding error for the ideology that gets five percent of the vote in my home country.

Right now I'm in East Europe and shocked at the stories of how Soviet broke the back of any complaints -- just these are worse than Chile in most countries here... And mostly unknown.

It might be different where you live.

But I do agree with what you seem to imply -- one person is too many.
No, "credit ding" is not a factor here - we're discussing situations where you're already defaulting and it should be already marked on your credit. No matter if you're paying x% of the loan to the original lender or y% of the loan to the loan collector - you're still someone who can't/won't repay a loan (not just some tardiness in payments, but a default) and thus shouldn't get any loans in future.

If you're still just delaying and are willing to pay near-100% of the principal - then you might get some deal where "protect your credit" is a factor, but these aren't the sort of pennies-on-dollar deals the original article talks about.
Having a different salt for each account means that identical passwords don't hash to the same value. This prevents low-effort attacks like this one: http://7habitsofhighlyeffectivehackers.blogspot.in/2013/11/c...

Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1286/
Yeh, let's all roll over. Who would want to do the right thing when you can do the easy thing?
I didn't watch PBS since I'm not American :(

I read about Alfred Nobel in a children's encyclopaedia in primary school; I mostly remember him as the inventor of dynamite who got a crisis of conscience and thus created the Nobel prizes (I didn't think of those as philanthropy, and I'm not sure if the "crisis of conscience" part is factually accurate).

John Harvard, purely name association with Harvard University. I guess I should check his Wikipedia page out.

Edit: It's actually Harvard College. Shows how much I know.
Google apps whitelist hardcoded into Chromium open source project
60% faster doesn't sound to me a large enough difference to select a web stack.

Till date I assumed node was probably ~60 times faster than php, mostly by interpreting results of alioth benchmarks.
As a sidequestion, what's a good ressource for getting into the postgres world?
Don't know about 1Password, but LastPass encrypts all passwords client-side. Only marginally less safe than storing passwords in an encrypted file on your personal machine.
At least one major exchange (btc-e) allows deposits/withdrawals in rubles.
While I don't have any ideas, I can at least add my voice to those saying "I will send money to this man if there is a way to do so". I'm dubious of that Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fundraiser that's been posted as it sounds like he needs more than just lawyer money right now.

And I think there are a lot of us out there who will contribute financially as soon as there's a bonafide way of doing so.
Get real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/02/world/americas/bolivia-pre...

I see no shots being fired.
Wow, really? Literally everyone except anarchists and libertarians agrees with my above view. Everyone with the slightest amount of understanding of how the human species creates and perpetuates community and culture shares my view. That includes Communists, Nazis, Liberal Democrats, Whigs, Tories, The Pope, Queen Elizabeth II, Gandhi, Vladimir Putin, Plato, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Kim Jong-Un.

Literally everyone of any consequence in all of human history understands that the entire purpose of government is to be the body that makes decisions on behalf of the community. It's only adolescent-headed libertarians and anarchists that don't understand this. Privileged idiots out of touch with reality.
That's not how it works.

Stealing 100 BTC today is not different from stealing 100 BTC tomorrow.

Their "value" only gets confirmed at the time of the exchange/transaction. Nothing stopped them from stealing that money 2 months ago, and hold it until it reached a high value.

That said, the motivation indeed rises when the value of Bitcoin rises (100 BTC worth $0.01 each is not worth the hack).
I am actually looking at saying good bye to browser (html / css / js and all the madness) and hello to apps that connect to dropbox or s3 or some such cheep server.
Big Data Wizards on Kaggle: Who Are They, and What Do They Have in Common?
I have heard that Gazebo(Simulator) is used extensively for the DARPA challenge, have you had much experience with it? Does it save you any time and how practical/applicable is the simulation compared to the real world?

I had the opportunity to build my own robot in it, the furthest I was able to go was getting 2D navigation working based on some libraries in ROS using a laser scanner. Unfortunately I can't upload that video since my computer was too slow, but I made another one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNGUJjV1zQ
I'm very disappointed with people that share your attitude. He gave up a lot to disclose unethical (and downright illegal) behaviour - for the betterment of society, knowing full-well the consequences. He also explicitly stated that this was not about him - so your flamboyant statements are WAY off the mark.

Here's the tip: research a topic before posting misinformation, unless you endorse breaching the 4th amendment, and lies all the way from Obama down.

But ... i'm heartened that very few people share your view.
So I guess you're not going to say thank you.
I see from another comment that vBulletin uses MD5(MD5(password)+salt) - I'd expect hashcat to be able to still blast through that at something north of 2 billion c/s…

That'll search the entire 32million entry list of Rockyou passwords in under a tenth of a second, and all 9-lower-case-letter passwords in an hour - or two hours if you include all 9char combinations with a single leading uppercase char. The rulesets that hashcat can use almost certainly means that any admin password which was human-created and under about 20 characters in that leak has already been cracked (anything made out of names or dictionary words with guessable letter/number/punctuation substitutions and leading/trailing digits - M1ffyTheC@t is not unguessable)
An ambitious experiment in Data Science takes off
The interesting thing here is if there exist conditions under which you can just disappear such that it is impossible to subpeona you. For example, if they had contacted him prior to serving a notice from a judge and he expected to receive a subpeona soon or eventually, what stops him from simply leaving town for a while on a fishing trip or to visit family and conveniently returning when its been long enough that getting the information is of much less use?
If everyone gets top rated, then the budget gets applied, everyone gets middling awards. Same result as rating everyone middling in the first place.
Did they follow him? Seems like that'd be the logical next step?
Lots of americans wouldn't agree that he committed a treason. And not just americans, btw. Disclosing such acts of violation of your Constitution is a necessity, not a treason. It isn't the case where it would have been better not to know about it.
Based on the fact that he had a cell phone surveillance system, he'd probably be pro-NSA.
The key take away from the article SHOULD be: don't rely on ntp if you don't have to.

There are people who have to. They run their own atomic clocks, and worry about things such as precision delivery of nuclear ordanance.

Then there's you. You should use vector clocks, with a builtin conflict resolution mechanism based on domain knowledge.

That's the point of the article.
It basically depends on the country and your personal situation. If you're the kind of person the US gov't would be interested in going after, then you probably shouldn't donate, as it's an extra and arguably unnecessary vulnerability to an offense pinnable to you.

It's a risk assessment. If you're not sure, then I'd say it's unlikely you need to worry. For me personally, for instance, even if a donation would put me on some watch list, it actually wouldn't change anything in my life or my anticipated plans.
Is there printer that can print itself?
There is not currently a list unfortunately. Would be happy to let you know when we release non social login - ping me at finbarr[]giveit100[]com :-)
Nice. Much stronger than the "you can only manage what you measure" adage I learned from accounting.
what would that solve? ever hear of inflation?
Buchvorstellung und Gewinnspiel: Orchestrator 2012 Cookbook
why is no one addressing the problem of overpopulation?
As I am Italian (who never voted Berlusconi), let me say that Berlusconi is not about the ladies and the fast cars, but a lot about a weak, very weak, alternative (a very shitty left wing). Italy is a conservative, right wing, country and Berlusconi was the only leader in that area for 20 years. How this happened and why will take too long to explain.

Yes, you have a point that Berlusconi is a sort of cultural difference. But to be sure of that, we shall put Danes in Italy for 10 years and see what they vote after that period. Yes, institutional memory is a cultural "feature", but for me "culture" is more the day to day of people, what do they laugh at? What are they aspirations? Dreams? What do they buy? Do they travel? Do they like sunny beaches (ie: Chinese don't like sunny beaches, here you have a cultural difference...)? Etc. In this, in EU we are very, very, similar.
I do love the idea of this. Even immediately downloaded it to my torch browser, but I did want some input before actually using it. Seems like there is some hesitation. How safe is this? And will it be bad for Amazon or the charities involved?
I'm actually surprised he has any access to his money at all. I assumed all of his assets would have been frozen under some sort of murky fugitive/terrorist/organized crime laws.

Or maybe he took proactive steps to keep this from happening?
Roubles? Wouldn't dollars be better?
Git Tower for Mac is 50% off.
Reddit does that as well with PostgreSQL. It surely doesn't show a win for NoSQL if two of the biggest sites on the internet would rather traditional SQL RDBMS as KV stores.
Depends on a lot of factors, including your internal rate of return.
How much revenue top companies earn per second
This is ReactPHP, not the stock PHP version so the title is a bit misleading and should rather be "Benchmarking Asyncronous PHP (ReactPHP) vs. NodeJS".
Easier said than done.

Also, this thread was originally prompted by the idea that it would be good for borrowers if they could get a right of first refusal on any resale of their debt. There's a question of whether more selective lending is in the best interests of such borrowers.

As much as being in debt sucks, many of these borrowers would prefer to be in debt than not have had access to borrowed money in the first place. Moreover, this would make life harder certain borrowers who would pay back their debt but can't get a loan because they fall within whatever statistical grouping or heuristic lenders are using to minimize their losses.
A first step for you to make it cheaper:

Someone needs to have a financial incentive in minimizing cost. For example by paying them based on the number of people in their area, and on good outcomes, rather than by the number of procedures etc. carried out.

GPs in the UK are paid this way - the practices are almost all private, but all practices that takes NHS patients (the vast majority) are paid mainly by a formula that makes it really bad business for to shirk on preventative care.

And since the NHS is not paid by the procedure as a whole either, they put massive resources into running ad campaigns to get people to recognize symptoms of various problems earlier and go see their doctor, rather than wait until things leads to expensive hospital visits.

NHS hospital trusts are given budgets based on demographics, and will find themselves placed in special measures and have their top management fired if they compare too unfavourably with other trusts or keep running over budget, so they too have incentives to minimize cost of providing health care in the areas they serve.

Meanwhile, in the US, for large parts of your health care system there is no benefit at all to reducing health care costs.

Your incentives are all wrong.

The NHS costs each UK tax payer on average less than the US government spends on health care, never mind private insurers....
Tack Steven! :-)
Ask HN: Visas beside the H-1B for working in the United States
I'd like to move to the US and work there. I don't think I would have any problems getting a job, but the H-1B cap continues to be a major roadblock.

Do any of you know of a different visa or immigration status that allows you to work in the U.S.?

Here's some info particular to me, if it helps:

- I was not born in a oversubscribed country (i.e. China, India, Mexico or Philippines). Does this makes getting an employment-based green card easier? Additionally, is it possible for a company to directly file an immigrant petition for you, without you first being in the country on an H-1B ?

- I have a Bachelor's degree (in Comp Sci) from a fairly well-known US university. (I had to leave the country after graduation, for certain reasons.)
The notion of escape is pretty terrifying to a jailer.
Wow, you are a dick. Or completely clueless.
Ninja Sphere looks very cool, particularly the RF-based location. Everyone who's ever lost their remote control wants a way to find it, or just do away with it entirely. It seems this could do both. The future of home automation is in ambient intelligence; things behaving correctly without user intervention.

[Obligatory self-promotion:] If you're planning on upgrading to the XboxOne, have an old Kinect lying around from your 360, and want to get a small part of the way right now to where these guys will get you in June, please check out the link to my startup in my HN profile.
"The principle is old, but true as fate, kings may love treason, but the traitor hate" Thomas Dekker. Last time I was there 3 years ago, vodka was still pretty cheap. I hope he likes it.
As a hobby-projects-only developer, would there be any reason to switch from mariaBD to postgreSQL?
Scalability is no issue for me (I don't have to scale). And lately I hardly write any queries myself because of django..
In Russia dollars are not quite useful.
I don't think this will sell. You can use a cheap printer to print wax in a better resolution. And this printer also needs post processing just as the lost wax method.
"Good luck with that." is all I'm saying.
It's the goal of the opensource RepRap project. To produce a pure self-replicating device.
http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap
I'm enjoying this.
Would a contribution be tax deductible?
No, but printers can print their clone ;)
Wow, one more program installing just a stub then wanting to download from the internet without even _thinking_ about proxies. :(