skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this new or just a reposting? Seems odd that it's driving people to a jobs page that lists no jobs.
I believe some disposable batteries have elemental lithium foil in them (opposed to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries).
Alan Turing’s Earthshaking Philosophical Insight
You could stop using the Internet and really make a change.
The overbloatiness of YouTube and the artsy-fartsy nature of Vimeo have left a vacuum for something that would be similar to the imgur of videos. I wouldn't be so surprised if someone applied to a venture capital firm with this sort of thing.
> All of these findings have been reported to the Department of Homeland Security (TSA) to help them better detect these types of threats.

The threats that the TSA itself admits are non-existent? (http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-...)

The best I can see coming of this is that the TSA will start to ban braided leather belts and condoms.
Its a reasonable criticism that he wasn't able to follow through or execute on his vision for the company, like Apple couldn't follow through on its Ping vision or Google its 'iGoogle' vision. Any I still disagree on the narrative that he 'lost billions.'
Yup, they can block your domain from embedding if they want.
This is great, but I can't hear the student's. Any transcript of this?
PS4 doesn't have any form of OpenGL. In this case, WebGL is probably translated on the fly to calls to the proprietary low level graphics API.
> I also think that there are cases where legitimate businesses have been seriously damaged by competitors, or just difficult customers writing unfair bad reviews.

This is a big problem for small businesses and people alike, but the actual solution to this is the opposite of what most people's first instincts would be. Ironically, it's the existence of laws against libel/slander that makes fake reviews and false negative content online such a big deal for people going forward.

Because these laws exist, people are conditioned to believe that most of what they read online is true because otherwise legal action would be taken and it would get removed. But few people and small companies have the resources to track down every false review or fake negative comment and find out who did it and make legal challenges.

If you're an average small business, you don't have an easy way to mount a serious challenge against a site like RipOffReport when an unknown competitor starts writing nasty fake reviews about you online that you never shipped a product or whatever. If you're an average person, you have very little recourse if somebody goes and falsely writes that you have an STD on a site like Dirtyphonebook or whatever. People and companies with large amounts of resources are protected by libel/slander laws, but the average person or small company isn't really.

In a society with no laws against libel and slander, people would be a lot more skeptical about the veracity of negative comments that they see online and do a lot more research before buying a product or believing some negative comment was false.

We can talk a lot about better reviews and reviews of reviews but all of these are susceptible to the same issues.
They reported it to credit bureaus, destroying their credit. They should be sued and penalized for that (in normal dealing that would be fraud if not extortion), however the threat and consequence is very real.

http://m.kutv.com/article?id=106632
Wow, Awesome link, LMDB always seems to fly under the radar, SkyDB+LMDB. Genius. (and written in go! I'm sold... well will at least give it a bash)
How do you take the batteries apart without crushing the foil, shorting them, and causing a fire?
The real villain here is the dental floss.
Google grants cloud servers IMMORTALITY (during maintenance)
It is my understanding that the company has actually sold the fraudulent $3,500 debt to a debt collector. The woman in this case has an excellent defamation case against the companies and a claim for treble damages (I believe) and attorney fees under FDCPA. She should contact an attorney and file a claim against this company. Between that damages and attorney fees, they may be looking at a $50-80k bill at the end of this all, plus the bad publicity. And I hope they are made to pay, because this is outrageous.
Record Label Owner Playing Along With Tech
That's fair. However, by putting them in a cell you're effectively disabling them from everything else in their life just to take away their ability to hack. Treat the crime accordingly.

His crime is in the internet domain. Monitor his internet traffic or take away his personal computer rights.

It's treating the symptom by eradicating all possible causes by throwing the man in prison for a decade.

It's like the russians, bombing and burning all their land so the enemy stands no chance. I think it's wrong to take that approach in this case, but hey, I guess I have some semblance of empathy.
Carefully. ;)

People cooking up shitty meth apparently do it (http://health.utah.gov/meth/html/ToxicologyofMeth/Lithium.ht...) but I don't know how they do it. They might be using tools that wouldn't be available in an airport, but I'm not so sure of that.
Note that GPU-mining Bitcoin these days is unprofitable. However this motherboard is still very useful for GPU altcoins such as Litecoins.
What if the reason you get to have a nice vacation at a particular time of year is that you are able to join important meetings from wherever?
I've been doing the same for a while, despite the fact that C-\ is in fact sort of already "taken" by default (SIGQUIT). That's not something I use often, but when I want it it's still easy enough to get by just sending C-\ twice. The only downside is occasionally (whether by accidental double-triggering or hitting C-\ out of habit when not actually running screen) killing foreground processes by mistake.
Do you have a point? Sounds like you are looking to berate.

Oh he did actually build some stuff? But it doesn't meet my arbitrary criteria for notability/novelty!
I don't see the word vacation anywhere in the article.
I think it's the heating element in a thermos; "fraguccino" uses the same technique.
> There is absolutely no evidence that Microsoft could have done both, regardless of who was at the helm.

I don't buy this argument. Anyone can say "no" instead of saying "yes." It was Ballmer's responsibility to green-light major products for launch, and he decided wrong time and again.
I guess one counterpoint would be Alfred Einstein and him famously not knowing his own phone number.

He stated why would I waste brain cells on something that is alphabetically sorted in a book?

I agree you need to know things like how malloc() works, how a function (lets say c) is allocated on the stack into frames, etc....

Just wanted to throw that out there. I love not knowing everything, but that has come after many years of learning what I don't need to memorize/internalize.
s/bias/relevant knowledge and experience/
200 years from now, The world will look back and Alan Turning will be considered one of the greatest Mathematician & Philosopher the world have ever seen.

And if we would have passed Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity) by then, Alan will be the true father or all the Super Machines and Super Intelligence.

I wish I could live up to that day and see what's ahead.
In the future you ought to avoid telling people how to communicate their thoughts. I didn't ask for your advice and from what I can tell you understood my point. To me that looks like successful communication.
Another fundamental quality: Always trying to find faults and errors everywhere and in everything. Especially in random blog posts.
I'm guessing this may have been an early draft of some of the statements of the theorem:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fTxlRmb...
In the same vein, and according to leaked TPP documents (incidentally also leaked by WL), simply linking to infringing content would be grounds for forcing ISPs to notify you of your infringement and subsequently disconnect you.

It's certainly quite clear that submitting such links to social media services would permit retaliation against you.
Oh, sure. It's not "new" in that you'd see it on magazine covers or whatever. And it's not any more appealing in this context, either.
If you had to define yourself without a reference to work, what would you say?
Looks like the YouTube specific autocomplete uses an undocumented Google API at suggestqueries.google.com

Someone documented it here:

http://shreyaschand.com/blog/2013/01/03/google-autocomplete-...
> Essentially if you are newly investing in Bitcoin now, you need to believe that (a) ... or (b) Bitcoin will increase in value so much that even a small number of Bitcoins will be very valuable.

If you can't mine profitably, yet believe that the value of a bitcoin will increase, then you're better off just paying money directly for bitcoins rather than inefficiently mining them.
I've heard the term before but this is the first time I had cause to look it up.

And now that I've read it: shouldn't you be offering condolences rather than congratulations?
Voices of Trey singing "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars
That's an optimistic way of looking at it. The pessimistic way is that people eventually see enough authority figures endorsing new stances that they change their own stance.

Obviously nobody explicitly thinks their morality is dictated by the state/church/parents/authority-figure, but in reality most people would agree with virtually everything an authority figure would say, especially if you look at what people actually do rather than just listening to what they profess.
You can log in with your Facebook account now. Tells you pretty much all you need to know.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if there are any consequences to having Belarus have domain over your--well--domain. It is a modern country with a well educated populace, but its government is Europe's last dictatorship. I imagine there aren't consequences, but you have to wonder if the founders considered any of the legal issues with spinning the globe to find a country with a matching top-level domain.
>Because they let you avoid garbage collection and data races while remaining safe.

Yes, and as I wrote, I think there's a very significant place for Rust among embedded and systems programmers. But for someone who's just looking for a fast alternative to C, Nimrod has been quite nice.

> ...handwaving...handwave....

I was trying to give you the specifics you asked for, not handwave. I don't think I could have answered your question any clearer. And I don't think pointing out the complexity inherent in 3 different pointer types is handwaving. It's a very specific statement.

>...but be informed with your criticisms

You asked me to elaborate on my criticisms, and then you criticize my criticisms? Look, I understand that Rust is your baby, and apologies if I've treated it unfairly, but why ask for why I found Rust complex if you're just going to discount it?

To be clear, I'm talking from the perspective of an intermediate-level programmer, with a couple years of experience, who taught himself to program in his 30s. I can certainly see the value of the design choices you've made for an expert programmer like yourself, with many years of experience, who can benefit from the kind of fine control Rust provides. But to someone like me, who's just looking for some caveman-level (but very significant) speedup from Python, and something I can call from Python, Nimrod has proven more than adequate and a whole lot easier to use than C/++.

>This is a perfect example of how single benchmarks can be misleading

So to be clear, are you saying Nimrod can't reach ballpark C/Rust/D/Go speeds?

EDIT: Wow, I've made comments critical of Apple and Google and not gotten as many downvotes as I'm getting here. But just to be clear, I'm not at all being sarcastic when I say "expert programmer". I'm aware of that pwalton is a very talented programmer and language designer.
Not a question of 'if' but 'when'. It will happen at some point though unlikely in say, 1 or 2 years from now.
The more ludicrous the TSA gets with its bans, the better. In the long run doing that will only make them look like clowns and make the general public resent them more.
Wow. I wonder how much I miss while using Adblock. That sounds miserable.
Conspiracy to commit murder? What are you talking about? Do you even know what Stratfor is? They're a glorified news organization. They're no more involved in the Mumbai terror plot than CNN is. As I said, they stand to profit because people will want more information about these events, which they provide. The stuff about supplying weapons is clearly a (bad, stupid) offhanded joke.
3D bouncing ball example in pure CSS3
Samsung Makes $6,486 Per Second
The benefits of partnerships between Silicon Valley and government agencies
I think if you believe people should go to prisons, your morality is dictated by the state.

If you find that offensive, maybe you should make an effort to clear your cached thoughts[0], and recompute everything you think about prisons. If you haven't done this at least once in your life, it's probable that you have a thought in your cache that was just inserted there by some authority figure while you were young enough not to know better.

[0] http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/
Needs a reface
Isn't there yet another way the contract is invalid (since they go through a few already)? It's stated in the article that the customer never received the item they paid for. Isn't the contract contingent on both parties following through (the customer paying, the business delivering paid for service or goods)?
The BSOD screen needs to be more ugly. The font is too pretty to be convincing.
Anyone can send written correspondence to anyone. Whether or not the recipient takes action is up to them.
How TapTap is turning the wearable into a new gesture-based user interface
Y is in set X, and Y is worse than the typical member of the set X.
Show HN: Thriftr
Yeah, we're gonna stop what we're doing, and make a montage just because you have a slow internet connection.
> I'm pretty sure there's no law against any of that.

Agreed. Unfortunately there is no recourse until a power center rises elsewhere. They say written history would have been very different in case Germany had won their war.
I don't know how effective any of these techniques would be to a terrorist, however cool and ingeniously constructed the weapons were. The whole security TSA thing is mostly a show anyways.
He shows this in the Fragguccino video (http://www.youtube.com/embed/TZ5a4ycwsig): by using a small pipe cutter (on a lithium AA battery). He notes that it can be done without the pipe cutter but would take more time.
I love any technological approach to getting me to the bar sooner.

I've always wanted a 'timed SMS' app where you can queue up text messages and set a time to send them. That way you can be enjoying happy hour while sending off 'stuck late at office' and 'leaving soon' messages without thinking about it.

Even better would be an app that plays background noise during your phone calls: airports, offices, taxis, stadiums. Dial up where you want to be for your call. Great for the 'still stuck at office' call, provided you could drown out the noise of the rowdy bar you're in. Last I checked, Android didn't have an API for that.
Fasten webhooks to web sockets
"Unconstrained from reality" is an understatement for your example.

I'm not arguing that Microsoft should have abandoned their cash cows and say "put office on the web" as a target.

Instead they should have, for example, actually stove to make money from their Xbox division (it's still in the red from it's inception).

Or made phones that didn't suck back in the early 00s - I had a colleague doing testing for mobile enterprise software for WinCE and each weekend he'd show me his return list - a half dozen or more OQO, HP, Dell, or Compaq handsets that just up and died during his testing - every week.

Ultimately, Microsoft could be making so much more than what they are. Apple's 1st and second most profitable areas didn't even exist 8 years ago. Microsoft's have existed for 20+, they simply can't make a new profitable venture. That's a failure of management.
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If you do not have at least two cards here, you do not understand how the domestic credit bureaus work. It is a major factor in determining your credit-worthiness for everything else you do. In countries with higher levels of home ownership and expensive education, it matters a lot, and it is not necessarily all about using them for consumption.
The environmental impact of cloud computing is hotly debated. To the extent that it's replacing "OldOps" kind of infrastructure it's probably more efficient. OTOH the Jevons Paradox predicts that as the cloud gets cheaper it will be used for increasingly higher volumes of lower-value tasks that previously would not have been done at all. Ultimately I favor internalizing the environmental costs and letting Amazon deal with them how they will.
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These "people" are looking to profit from misery (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6742844).

Wikileaks is attempting to provide transparency in a world where that doesn't much exist so boo-fucking-hoo if somebody's Mastercard gets leaked in the process.

Mass dumps aren't adding any more "ammunition" for their detractors than some sort of filtered dump would. Detractors don't need much of a reason to dislike what Wikileaks is doing beyond the fact that they've been exposed.
I saw Alexis talk at a Google authors talk recently. He is a great speaker and his book is a good read.
Question for game theorists: Is here a realistic scenario under which the entire world could disarm and shift from coming up with better ways to kill people to more constructive pursuits.

Please don't say "A visit from Vulcans"
I use screen/tmux control combos far more frequently than I've used ctrl-a for beginning of line. That's what the home key is for (cue thousands of vim users telling me I shouldn't use any key that wasn't on a keyboard 40 years ago).
If more people funded to hire people or people volunteered to go through the content first, then sure - otherwise it's important to release content like kid0m4n posted in a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6742844
Think (don't cargo cult)
Are files available via torrent/web somewhere? I'd appreciate if someone has a link to share.
If you're using GPG manually, as described in your article, then it's fine, but when you're using git filters you have no control over when encryption/decryption takes place and when it doesn't. Whenever a file is checked out from the index to the working tree, git invokes the the smudge filter, and whenever git needs to check if the file in the working tree has changed (as from `git status`), it invokes the clean filter, even if you haven't actually changed the file in the working tree[1]. If the results from the clean filter are different from what's in the index, git thinks the file has changed. That means the clean filter had better produce the same output if the working tree version hasn't actually changed. GPG doesn't satisfy that requirement.

[1] newer versions of git do some caching here, so the clean filter might not always be invoked, but it's still invoked often enough to cause problems
These people should be hung.
Where did they come up with the amount of $3500?
So you want your HTML to be clean and semantic and your CSS to be a spaghetti riddled @extend-fest. No thank you.
guess what, in the bay area, connectivity up is generally even worse than that. For all the amazing internet companies here, the infrastructure for the public is pretty bad.
Laws are made up by humans - we could create laws that disallow this kind of behaviour, it's a bit surprising that it's not, no? Oh wait, the for-profit military-industrial complex lobbies politicians who are pro-war ...
what makes you think coglan and dryden are speaking on behalf of themselves, and not on behalf of all the people who don't have the time and luxury to write code, and are being unfairly and systemically penalised for it?
I'm not the downvoter (in fact, I upvoted you since you provided a non-emotional, useful, rational comment), but I disagree that those rules are pretty simple. They may be useful to know, but even the heuristic you provide above is fairly complicated for a beginner. But it's nice to know there are parallels in C.
Yes, vacation (or even non-working hours) would be implied in this case? Sunrise to sunset.... is that what we really want? Sure we want to be connected, but not necessarily "working".
This is already a thing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championsh...

It's enough of a thing that there was drama and accusations of cheating/plagiarism a few years back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka#WCCC_disqualification_and...
Reminds me of falling into the pit of success[0]. Make it easy to do the right thing by default. I'm about to embark on a new project at work, and setting up a development and testing environment that others find easy is my main goal right now.

[0]http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/08/falling-into-the-pi...
I think the key takeaway here is that there are two types of people: those who grew up and eventually became TSA agents, and those who were curious about the world when they were kids and learned all of this stuff.
You don't see a problem with this?
It is estimated that most ASICs cost less than $1/GH/s to make and the current prices just reflect demand outstripping supply. Thus by January I expect all vendors (including e.g. KnC who has known working chips) to be selling for $3/GH/s.

AFAIK Cointerra's batch 1 delivery date has always been December.
Grab the URLs out of the page and use youtube-dl on a lower quality setting.
Creativity Isn’t about Ideas; It’s about Execution
This is dumb. If they need a secret, they request them using another key. Therefore they have access to all the secrets they would have needed anyway. What does this gain? It adds a ton of complexity and a major failure point.
I'd have to agree. Stratfor has some incredible analysis in their articles. Stuff the mainstream media overlooks in an effort to make news easily digestible.
I cross my fingers hoping the BLUNDERBUSSness shotgun will be available in L4D3 or Dead Rising 3.
It's particularly tricky when dealing with async code, where you can't simply say "block here till you have 4 bytes." If you're just getting in events that say "you received n bytes and here they are."
Use Firefox Developer Tools for more than just development
I've had the "privilege" of getting access to the paid product via work some years ago. I found that they did accurately predict 100 of the next 2 crises (ie if you say every day disaster is imminent some days really bad things randomly occur). But beyond the quality of their content, Stratfor intimates they have some proprietary pipeline to govt classified intelligence when they have no more access than any other person with Google and a subscription to the NY times. Wikileaks embarasses itself and does Stratfor a great service by perpetrating the marketing hoax that Stratfor is anything but a bunch of guys in Texas rehashing public news sources for gullible corporate consumers.