skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paragraph about the hard link errors propagating from one backup to another in Time Machine is pretty scary.

Is there any known solution to this problem? Would running something like Disk Util from time to time detects the errors and fix the filesystem?
I didn't know this either, thanks for the tip!
This will be even scarier when there are no alternatives left, and the only options will be physical objects that abuse personal data.

I think it will take true pioneers in other fields to extend the open source movement beyond software. With rapid prototyping and manufacturing techniques exploding, how much longer until I can submit a pull request for an open source car?
IBM / Gartner call Watson type tech 'Smart Machines'. They extend that definition out to things like HP Autonomy, Google, and other systems that integrate huge amounts of data in order to make decisions that seem almost inteligent.

The message is that 'this is the next step in / new Big Data'. Huge companies that spend loads on R&D have amassed a base of proprietary technologies which provide them a real competitive advantage.

Like bioinformatics, jet packs, and (well hell, big data), I'd say the vision (presented as current reality) is probably far ahead of what will be possible in reality in the next 10 years.

Clearly, Watson was able to answer structured questions it had been specifically prepared for, with a certain amount of pre-work done parsing the problem to get it into an easily computer solvable form.

This not the startrek computer, which can answer any questions. It needs a programmer to show it how to answer each specific type of question.

But it is cool. The majority of knowledge still lives in word docs and power points, in spoken meetings and peoples heads. If this developing set of technologies allows us to work with that amorphous info bulk, even in a simple way, you can see the potential for humand development.
Technically, I dunno. But I can pick up JVMs and JVM apps for pretty much any OS I want, can't say the same for Mono/.NET. I'd rather use the JVM for cross-platform JIT language work because of this. Further, the JVM has a broad base of development and support; many companies build products around it & there are multiple JVMs. That isn't really the case for .NET.

So in a head to head on tools + community + buyin from multiple vendors, the JVM wins, hard.
I would expect rugby's offsides rule makes it a safer setting for lateral passes.
Lebanon's forgotten space programme
Stop repeating the same task by automating with documented processes
A bit lengthy but interesting look at the value of documented processes.
Anyone know why this is being upvoted? Anything new (in 2013) that is suddenly makes this relevant again? (ZFS changed their license? WinFS back as a zombie?)
Ghost in the Shell but no Blade Runner?

... although I still can't tell if it's a joke list or not because Hackers is on it.
What were you mapping?
I really have zero idea why I should care? I ignored all comments except when I thought it would be funny. So people come to YouTube to comment??????? I thought that was like only .05% who did?

Where am I being an ignorant YouTube user? Just seems like a big to do about nothing.
"Obstruction of justice". Yeah...
I don't know if it is really legit, but it seems there is a patent application from Microsoft, presumably using the Kinect, to count the number of people watching.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
It occurs to me that Bitcoin can either be an anarchist-libertarian weapon against capitalism, or it can have mainstream success, but probably not both.
Here is the difference. CC and other sites do basic aggregation. We create a standard that is similar to college catalog so you know which courses are roughly equivalent. Look at all the courses under Computer Science 101
http://coursebuffet.com/cb/computer-science/101

These are the courses we have examined at and determined they are all beginning computer science courses even though the names of the courses are not the same. For example one is entitled Fundamentals to Computer Science another Introduction to Computer Science, etc. Now you don't have to figure out which specific courses are comparable in an "apples to apples" way. It is done for you. If you go on other sites and enter computer science all the computer science courses are listed with only basic grouping leaving it up to you to take your time and figure out which ones you should be comparing.

This also gives you a basic idea in what order you might want to take the course. We have figure that out for you and made it easier to mix and match from different providers.
Well, she will have no excuse from December onwards :)
Yep, if you read the FAA position, that's the idea. The risk wasn't seen as huge, but since there was a possibility of interference the trade-off seemed reasonable. Just one of the many small things done to improve safety.
It's probably just restoring your previous session. Hold down Shift when starting Safari to avoid loading the old session data.
So the dumb people who get caught looking for that information get screened out, but the smart dangerous people who happen to learn how to avoid having problems with a "lie so-called-detector" test will pass with flying colors? How does that help?
Shouldn't it say top 11?
Thanks. There are still errors and bugs we are working on.
Her video are very educational and attracted quality comments. Now, those quality comments are hidden, and low quality comments are moved to the top.

This is the issue.
For the same reason the above message cites as reasons to think the rules were always bunk, the "reported incidents" are also likely to be bunk. It is very unlikely that any one passenger's electronics are the only electronics left on, and therefore very unlikely that the guy who gets berated for leaving his iPod on is causing any problems.
Green words on black screen look very intriquing and matrix-like, but I cannot wrap my head around what this clustering actually represents.
That would be the opposite of progress.
I just got home from my first trip since the FAA changed their rules, and it was really quite refreshing not to be able to continue using [non-radio] devices. Among other things, I think it generally calms the passengers and makes them less unruly.
Yes. However some people have had trouble with using long extension cords. http://theunderstatement.com/post/18030062041/its-a-brick-te...
"You have access to all of this data – all of their financial records, all of their telephone records, all of their transactions . . . ," Customs official John Schwartz said in a June speech to police polygraphers that McClatchy attended. "Then we can look at that list and determine for ourselves if we are good or not good at detecting these countermeasures."

The countermeasures in question concerned beating a lie detector test. It's a very short step to the countermeasures being any civil protests.
It's not breaking news or anything, but by definition, "Mac OS filesystem still a piece of crap" won't be.

I assume it's being upvoted because it's interesting and (apparently) timeless.
So sad. We've been waiting for ZFS (or similar) for years now to no avail. It's one of those things that you know Apple engineers are hitting their head about but there's so much legacy code keeping them on HFS+ that they need some real institutional push to get things ported.
it should rather be top 8, 16, or 32...
yes currently, its just a summation of all crimes in all selected categories.
We are working on having a weighted sum based on severity of the crime.
I guess Google couldn't resist tapping into one of their only successful social media (Youtube) to promote G+. Of course Youtube being right below 4chan's /b/ in terms of online discussion it was a very risky decision.

Google is very good at sorting the web and finding the interesting content. I think in the long run they might be able to do the same thing with comments and be able to extract the insightful content and weed out all the noise. If they manage to do that it could be a revolution: imagine a website like reddit where you could automatically hide all low-content submissions and comments based on your preferences.

They're definitely not there though, so far this G+/Youtube integration is an unmitigated disaster. It even broke my Chrome plugin that removed all comments from Youtube videos. Life is suffering.
Well, I'm not buying that.
What branches of math are good for people who are bad at calculation?
boogie2988 disabled comments on all his videos because the hateful spiteful messages (personal attacks re. his weight, etc) all bubbled to the top.

Many people are also linking to spam, pornography, and viruses. G+'s algorithm also bubbles these to the top because they get a large amount of responses.
Basically, 10% equity when someone holds 51% boils down to being entirely dependent upon the majority owner's goodwill in so far as the value of that equity is concerned. A majority owner can sell the entire company or some of its assets on whatever terms they choose, whenever they choose, to whomever they choose...including themselves for a song before a profitable resale. Or they can redirect its cashflow to their own pockets via rental agreements, leasing arrangements, consultant fees, or well you name it. And absent a well negotiated contract on the part of the 10%, even lawyering up won't do much beyond draining your pocket book.

Now I mention this because the arrangement described sounds a bit like an offer to come onboard as the hired help. But just a bit since there's not much hiring going on when there isn't a paycheck.

With 51% the Owner remains an owner, and is not someone who is looking for a partner or a collaborator. The value they place on technical ability is reflected in their decision to outsource development. The lack of revenue and runway suggests their level of financial savvy.

That they would even seek four people to work without pay and control?

Well, draw your own conclusions.

Good luck.
It's a really cool project and performs reasonably well but I have issues with some of the interface choices:

1. The navigation controls are non-intuitive and don't follow most 3D movement conventions. I wanted right-click panning and some shortcut for orbiting (not having to change modes).

2. Positioning is erratic. When building something it would randomly refuse to let me draw on top of some cubes even when I precisely positioned my cursor on the top cube surface. Positioning guides would be nice: Highlight adjacent surfaces, draw alignment axis, etc.

3. Conversely, erasing a bunch of blocks would fail because the erase cursor would "hop" on top of (some not all) blocks I wanted to erase.

4. The "thicken" operation sounds handy but never worked for me even once I figured out (I think) that you have to select blocks first. I expected I could select blocks and then pull them up or out to duplicate them.

5. Having a multiuser environment default to fill/drawing mode is a horrible idea since _everyone_ spews blocks all over the landscape destroying stuff before getting the hang of it. Suggestion: Give everyone a protected 30x30x30 home sandbox where no one else can draw. Everywhere else would be free range.

Overall, you have the tech down but the UI needs playtesting. Watch novices and Minecraft-ers try doing something more than scribble with it. You'll know your interface is working when you start seeing more than blobs and piles littering your world.
How do you solve multi-device login? Also, that seems to require JS, which may or may not me a problem.
Easily, he's in line of sight to tons of radio towers.
> Just saying that this 'brickable car' may be worth it for some.

Yes, and I'm sure that taking out huge mortgages on their houses was worth it for some people, especially just before 2007. But that doesn't mean that offering mortgages with no upfront payment is moral, or beneficial for the society. People can't properly value risk and most don't think long-term, so businesses can often trick them into doing things for short-term gain, long-term harm.
At the moment it's really difficult to print battery chemistry.

You probably need real nanotech to print a spring or other item that requires complex metallurgy. I wonder about things like tires, or even seat covers.

So it'll be a while.
Microsoft Is About to Dethrone Apple as the S&P 500's Power Stock
No. FB is hardly a public company, even though its shares can be traded on public exchanges. Zuckerberg owns about 28% of the company, but has ~57% of the votes. Shareholders other than Zuckerberg have no say on the Board.

Even FB itself listed Zuckerberg's voting power as a potential risk on its own S-1 filing. ”So long as the outstanding shares of our class B common stock represent a majority of the combined voting power of our common stock, Mr. Zuckerberg will be able to effectively control all matters submitted to our stockholders for a vote, as well as the overall management and direction of our company.”
By removing the option to buy, and adding the DRM, Renault will have cornered the market in batteries for the car. Perhaps you'd like to buy a 3rd-party battery? Tough luck. Think that the battery rental rates are too high and you'd prefer to rent from someone else? Bad luck again, Renault will be the only ones in the market.
i was pointing out that the list is in fact showing 11 movies.
My policy is to stick to a couple of stacks for projects I will have to maintain 5 years down the road: currently Python/PostgreSQL for server side code, and AngularJS or Unity for client side code (depending on the nature of the project, but really there's not much overlap there). It will definitely evolve whenever I find something warranting the switch, but the bar is set pretty high. At the end of the day it's what you ship that matters, much more than how it's built.

On the other hand, when I get to do a short-lived project I tried to use a new technology: that's still the best way to learn, plus it's loads of fun. If it's great then I start using it for longer term projects: that's how I found (and so far sticked to) AngularJS.

In 2013 I shipped small projects built on top of nodejs, chicago-boss (erlang), meteor, but also RethinkDB and coffeescript. RethinkDB genuinely seems like a great document store: I will probably give it a second shot when it's more production ready.
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Crew and fleet cars, like rentals or corporate cars I would think.
Yes.

The growth of cloud (storing all your important shit on hard drives owned and operated by someone else) has been increasing these past few years.

I thought the world had gone batshit insane even before the NSA leaks, but it appears I was part of an incredibly small minority. Some people may have come to our side, but not many. Because really, if you don't care that Company Y has access to your shit, what difference does another third-party make?

People that think like me are definitely the minority, unfortunately.
Having worked in the pharma industry, I can attest that there is no shortage of extreme risk aversion at the FDA. That being said, we just had an article here where someone claimed to have created a spreadsheet in pure javascript for some absurdly low number of lines of code. When you read through that thread there are all sorts of people pointing out that this isn't a real spreadsheet by any stretch. It merely looks like one, but is missing some pretty complex and necessary stuff. I would submit that what you see here is the medical device equivalent. There are no safety mechanisms, the system doesn't monitor itself for failure, there's no characterization of the limits of the system in various conditions, etc... That's fine because it's a hobbyist setup. But let's not kid ourselves about what it takes to have a reliable device that works in a hospital setting under a multitude of environmental conditions.

Things didn't end up the way they are by accident. The current situation is the result of decades of medical devices and interventions killing people because of faulty design. It's not unlike the situation with the FAA and airlines.
Depends on the cause of the corruption. If the physical drive is going bad, then diskutil should at least report some errors. But HFS+ doesn't checksum anything. If you have a flaky controller or just an errant solar ray flipping a bit, there's nothing diskutil can do about it. A 0 is as valid a bit as 1, so as far as diskutil can tell, all you did was save a change to a file somewhere.

You can verify your time machine backups periodically though.
We use Mitro[0]. We've been on it for a few months now and it works quite well.

[0] https://www.mitro.co/
Standing up in the aisle is more comfortable than sitting my fat butt in a tiny seat. :)
About: http://marumushi.com/projects/newsmap
Is this a fact? It seems like the cells are so valuable that they are selling multiple tiers of battery so they will have a lower cost model. There's real money to be saved in not putting 20,000Whr in the car.
That's the purpose of those rules: To give flight attendants a plausible safety-related task. That takes the passengers' minds off the fact that airliner safety rituals for passengers are absurd and that other aspects of in-flight service are sub-par.
Better ratings and reviews at the Google Play Store
I know :) just having fun.
Watson Is Going To Be Open For Public Use on the Cloud
Technology moves forward quickly. You might see these languages and frameworks as basically all the same from one perspective, but really there are fundamental differences in the way you shape your application in different ecosystems like Go or nodejs or Python or Java, and that ultimately influences the products you build and the direction the industry goes in.

It's important.
I hope Google manage to sort this out some time soon. In the short term, just undoing everything and going back to the old comment system might actually be a good idea.
Relevant line / explanation: two backgrounds, top layer is a gaussian blur inside SVG, second one is the image that will be blurred.

background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%221920%22%20height%3D%221120%22%3E%3Cdefs%3E%3Cfilter%20id%3D%22blur%22%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur%20stdDeviation%3D%225%22%2F%3E%3C%2Ffilter%3E%3C%2Fdefs%3E%3Cimage%20xlink%3Ahref%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fplacekitten.com%2F1920%2F1120%22%20width%3D%221920%22%20height%3D%221120%22%20filter%3D%22url%28%23blur%29%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"), url("http://placekitten.com/1920/1120");
Check out the beta for "lightweight" Youtube, dubbed Feather[1]. It's a streamlined layout without comments or other junk. I've found that the user experience with Youtube has been steadily declining for several years; this seems to mitigate many of the issues I've had.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
can you explain why? DRM might be important for some people, but weighed against their primary mode of transportation, I feel like it's a values concession I'd be slightly willing to make (making it clear I'd be willing to go for an alternative).
Buying a book is now a big red flag?

So to be truly safe I guess the government should know all the books we each buy and those we borrow from a library. They should also track what everyone reads online.
For the adventurous, there's Zevo [1] which is a port of ZFS to Mac OS X that supports all the fine grained details of the operating system:

"ZEVO’s file system is fully integrated into the Mac’s unique OS environment and implements quotas, ACLs, and the HFS+ programming interfaces like search-fs, id lookups, bulk access calls and resource fork stream access."

If I remember it correctly, the company is run by the guy that was responsible for the ZFS-Mac OS X integration at Apple that was canned shortly before 10.6 was released.

[1] http://getgreenbytes.com/solutions/zevo/
I'm not a huge node fan, but these are some weak criticisms. Not sure "CGI" is really appropriate for all tasks.
"The promise [...] was that making people use their real names would incentivize them to behave themselves. It's abundantly clear now that there are more than enough people who are willing to be jerks under their real names. In the meantime, people who have good reason not to post under their own names -- vulnerable people, whistleblowers, others -- are now fully on display to those sociopaths who are only too happy to press the attack with or without anonymity."

Told you so :(

Though I'm personally in a slightly different position, where my online handle is my public face that my hard earned reputation is linked to, but google wants me to use the birth-certificate name that nobody has heard of >:( (And it's not easy to just lie about my real name since I once bought something with google wallet, so they've seen my credit card and they want my profile name to be in sync with that...)
SnapChat does notify the sending user if you take a screenshot in any conventional fashion.
Yeah, some explanation might be in order...

These are a bunch of "word vectors" (generated w/ word2vec https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/) put through a dimensionality reduction/visualization technique called T-SNE and then plotted in 3d. As far as what the clustering represents, check out T-SNE (http://homepage.tudelft.nl/19j49/t-SNE.html), but the short answer is--it's hard to say...

Here's a longer explanation from a webinar I did yesterday where I demoed this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmlj5uTUTFY (skip to 12:11 to get to the applicable section)
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> Copyright is absolutely necessary to allow authors to make money from their work

No it isn't.

Writers can sell books. They can write for magazines and journals. They can write for TV. They can write for radio. They can write plays. Etc.

None of these things require copyright.
maybe if Gillette razors were made of diamonds this would make sense. I honestly don't think they'll be making much off of this scheme.
first of all, it doesn't have to be mandatory. classic auth via user/pw entry could still co-exist.

multi-device auth is possible too: each device could generate a client cert. the authenticator would have to be able to link multiple certs to a user account.
"If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance."
I like it, but I am confused by the interface. How does one switch between navigating the left-side menu and using the crosshair to look around?
Seems clearly to have been done in reaction to, or in cooperation with the change in the US.

I wonder why no European or other country got out in front and made this change earlier?
Really, I sometimes enjoy reading the stupid comments. Do we really want quality control censorship on comments for all the "I Put Fireworks Down My Pants" videos? I think not.

(please ignore this retarded comment, faaaagots)
Why would someone want a non-ssl version?
Could you explain the filtering "their inputs through fixed or random nonlinearities"? I haven't heard of this before.
Yay another car that i will never buy.
Why is it called a "fractal tree"?
Mediagoblin!
There is so much marketing around Watson and so little data. I feel like a broken record every time this comes up, but where are the peer-reviewed research papers with data showing Watson's superior utility in real world settings like hospitals?
you're comparing unsustainable loans with a system to make a patently better (on most fronts) mode of driving available to the masses that can't afford a Tesla.
Browser versions are important. Do you mind pasting a profile from your debugging tool of choice?