skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't this be solved by offering different tiers of service? Say, keep the existing service but add another one at a higher price that allows you to select your preferred carriers. People pay more for first class seats on an airplane, better seats at a ball game, more channels with Comcast, business-grade service with Verizon..
I think the margin of error for this kind of printing is usually only 3mm though, so they could still put him pretty close to the edge if they wanted to
I had to disable voice navigation because I'd be watching a youtube video or whatever, and my daughter would be talking to my wife across the room or the next room, and I'd randomly get restarting or skipped videos or whatever. I decided it was misinterpreting conversations in the room as me saying "xbox, next" or whatever. I don't recall if I software disabled it (is there an option?) or the old fashioned hardware disable using duct tape and stuff. Its been months since I've had a problem, so I have no proof (logs or whatever) but the correlation is interesting. (Edited to add, I'm not even sure the yt app supports voice... but the correlation with "I got really pissed off and shut off a bunch of features" and "it works better now" still exists)

Once kinect and voice are disabled, it is a pretty decent console.
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Have you ever been to Israel? Israeli style screening would mean interviews for every person flying to the USA. It would be more inconvenient and expensive than even the current TSA.
Me too! Many thanks for finding and linking it. (Not complaining. Both are good)
I miss the simplicity of the old consoles. Why did game systems evolve into some distopic nielsson box?
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I hope you educated your users not to forward any of that mail.
Except 1,2,3,4,5,6 is actually bought way more (by hundreds) than would be bought by random.

It's best to use a source of random numbers. Any rules you construct just makes it more likely someone else is using the same constructions.
wow you really missed that one..
A distinguishing mark of many great tyrants is "good intentions". The worst tyrants are true believers in their causes.
Yep, this time is different [1].

In all seriousness, if you really believe this, I suggest you pick up a copy of that book. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme, and you'd be surprised just how similar this time is.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Different-Centuries-Financia...
Thrun didn't really fail. Public education failed. You can't educate someone in one semester. Thrun is trying to actually teach understanding. But in all their lives, students never needed to understand anything. They just needed to memorize formulas and apply them so they could pass the stupid tests that teachers made up. And that is the real failing.
Following up - this fixed it! (Took a while to get a virtualbox set up with my old config and simulate the upgrade a few times to make sure everything was the same)

Thanks, eh!
very nice. please add IronPython & F# if you get a chance :)
compilify seems to take a long time to compile code :(
I just verified you are right in most cases it won't use int 0x80.

sample C code where you would expect to see int 0x80:
#include <stdio.h>

void main(int argc, char argv)
{
char name[2];
name[0] = "/bin/sh";
name[1] = NULL;
execve(name[0], name, NULL);
exit(0);

}

when you build it and then use objdump -D: the relevant code is as follows:
8048419:	8d 54 24 18	lea 0x18(%esp),%edx
804841d:	89 54 24 04	mov %edx,0x4(%esp)
8048421:	89 04 24	mov %eax,(%esp)
8048424:	e8 eb fe ff ff	call 8048314 <execve@plt>
8048429:	c7 04 24 00 00 00 00	movl $0x0,(%esp)

But if you use something that executes a payload it uses int 0x80.

Sample C code :

#include <unistd.h>

char shellcode[] = "\x31\xc0\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\xcd\x80\xeb\x16"
"\x5b\x31\xc0\x88\x43\x07\x89\x5b\x08\x89\x43\x0c"
"\xb0\x0b\x8d\x4b\x08\x8d\x53\x0c\xcd\x80\xe8\xe5"
"\xff\xff\xff\x2f\x62\x69\x6e\x2f\x73\x68\x4e\x41"
"\x41\x41\x41\x42\x42\x42\x42";

int main ()
{

int (func)();

func = (int ()()) shellcode;

(int)(func)();
}

objdump -D will give you that:
0804a040 <shellcode>:
804a040:	31 c0	xor %eax,%eax
804a042:	b0 46	mov $0x46,%al
804a044:	31 db	xor %ebx,%ebx
804a046:	31 c9	xor %ecx,%ecx
804a048:	cd 80	int $0x80
804a04a:	eb 16	jmp 804a062 <shellcode+0x22>
804a04c:	5b	pop %ebx
804a04d:	31 c0	xor %eax,%eax
804a04f:	88 43 07	mov %al,0x7(%ebx)
804a052:	89 5b 08	mov %ebx,0x8(%ebx)
804a055:	89 43 0c	mov %eax,0xc(%ebx)
804a058:	b0 0b	mov $0xb,%al
804a05a:	8d 4b 08	lea 0x8(%ebx),%ecx
804a05d:	8d 53 0c	lea 0xc(%ebx),%edx
804a060:	cd 80	int $0x80
804a062:	e8 e5 ff ff ff	call 804a04c <shellcode+0xc>

I guess you can force it, but in general the compiler will replace it with calls to libs.
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Definitely a problem, but mostly for those in a large city. I have never had a package come via USPS in Utah.
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If you put the bands here instead, you get a whopping 54% of the points, http://imgur.com/kkqdyNR

So, I'm not convinced. Other than a slight void in the centre and at the edges, it looks like a fairly random distribution to me.

I'd love to see a more in depth examination of the clustering of those points.
Jamiroquai but no Incognito? How do these people sleep at night? ;-)
I second these and also recommend the new QC20's. Neither offer the best sound quality, but hands down the best noise canceling capabilities. The QC20's are in-ear and much more wearable outside of the office.
Former New York entrepreneur here. There's a simple solution to this: don't incorporate in New York. You can incorporate in any state you want simply by having someone to receive your mail there (known as a "registered agent").

The laws in New York are absurd. I incorporate in Florida now, and it costs $70 and takes filling out a 5 minute form.
> All you need is a thermocycler, some eppindorfs, a sequencing gel apparatus, some photographic film, and all the raw chemicals.

And brutal amounts of tedious, flawless precision (I have tremendous respect for people who can do this stuff...)
One consequence is that many people don't understand just how hateful the WWW is for some other people.

Sure, anyone can be the victim of really unpleasant attacks from others on the Internet, and it's been going on for years. But try creating different online characters. Give one a male name, give the other a female name. And make that the only difference. Now see the different ways people interact with you.

Having more diverse workforce can help you understand the problems of not having good blocking tools or reporting tools or privacy controls.

But then again, Google has a ton of women working for them and they've fucked up real names and G+ integration. So maybe I'm wrong.
I get what you're saying, but Dropbox is not a back-up service. The distinction is that Dropbox didn't exist before Dropbox. There are unique aspects of Dropbox that were new when Dropbox was introduced.

There is nothing new or unique in what you described, with the exception (maybe) of automatic initiation of VPN services when you're on "public" wifi. I would argue that this is a differentiation of little or no consequence, because there's no reason to not use a VPN all the time.

You basically described every personal VPN provider in the market as a start-up idea.
I'm not being pedantic for its own sake, but I have noticed many people using terms that have definitions for other things that already have terms defining them. Esp. the term architecture.

node.js is not an architecture, is a "software platform" for running a "language" (javascript) server-side.

An examples of a computer architectures are x86, amd64, MIPS, ARM, SPARC, POWER.

"For example, at a high level, computer architecture may be concerned with how the central processing unit (CPU) acts and how it uses computer memory." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_architecture]

Now there also is a software architecture which is the abstract design of a system:
"The word software architecture intuitively denotes the high level structures of a software system. It can be defined as the set of structures needed to reason about the software system, which comprise the software elements, the relations between them, and the properties of both elements and relations" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architecture]

But node.js is neither of these.
Privacy may be an anomaly, but security is not. I'd like my financial data well protected, thank you.
Perhaps philosopher has a different connotation in UK English. Sorcerer just seems more appropriate in a book about magic.
Sure, but if you have that level of access to the machine, what's the point you're making?
Linked article is just over 11 years old. Is the author's rounding of 11 years down to 10 that offensive?
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Except his name is changed in almost every country, so it's not "dumbing down":

Germany - Walter

Norway - Willy

France - Charlie

Denmark - Holger

Israel - Effi

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/22414/wheres-waldo-and-whos-w...
It's made in a partnership with RealMac software, who makes Clear, a pretty well known iPhone To Do app.

In my experience, no new iOS app is going to get any attention unless there is some connection to existing popular apps or popular developers. It's rather annoyingly incestuous.
This is really awesome, good job!

I've found a minor glitch. Seems that the Intellisense (auto-complete) does not work when I try to call a custom class method inline, like:

Console.WriteLine("Hello World, " + new MyClass().PrintTestSentence());

(Public methods of class "MyClass" does not show up there)

See here: http://www.dotnetfiddle.net/5oF8oR
This reminds me of high school English class: let's obsessively analyze this book/play/whatever, trying to discern the secret meanings and fundamental truths the author has elaborately hidden inside his or her work.

When in actuality, the author was probably just writing what they wanted to, and what sounded good on the page. As in this case, where the author literally says, "I add Wally when I come to what I feel is a good place."
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As stated elsewhere linqpad is really great for testing ad-hoc, throwaway C# code (much more than just linq expressions). It kind of like a REPL for .net.
As a "database guy" who uses Python for most things not bash, is this an approach for viz apps that would eliminate (most) of the need to muck about in JavaScript?

D3 and its children produce some awesome visualizations, but the bandwidth does not exist for me to begin developing apps in a language I don't have much experience in.

If something like Bokeh allows me to live mostly in Python, it becomes even more interesting.
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"hey Steve, we see you've eaten Hamburger Helper and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese three times this week. Would you like to learn more about dating services in your area?"
#SmallestViolin
Saying the router is a single failure point is a backwards way of saying, let these "things" talk to the internet in other ways too!

If the router is properly configured (i.e. the way the owner wants it), it can be a single point of control - and that's the best case.

The real threat, mentioning which would have justified the title, is that people may not be able to opt out of all the "things" reporting to outside parties.
but will it work for anything other than startups?

I do like the idea though - there is a lot of value in getting an audience to a critical mass
No -- it's an artificially-added delay. By switching the option on, your emails are delayed by the time period you choose.
This does a really good job: http://ifyoudig.net/dark-moor

Last.fm does alright: http://www.last.fm/music/Dark+Moor/+similar

Last.fm puts Galneryus on page 3, and Galneryus is sufficiently different that I wouldn't trust the recommendations that score lower. Last.fm correctly places Stratovarius above this cutoff, but Helloween, Sonata Arctica, and Blind Guardian don't make the cut, and Ayreon is all the way down on page 10 with Van Canto and Turisas. Van Canto and Turisas are great, to be sure, they are just way less similar to Dark Moor than Ayreon is.

Of course, Last.fm is better than nothing: http://ifyoudig.net/mohican-sandbag vs. http://www.last.fm/music/Mohican+Sandbag/+similar

Last.fm just reads tags, so a lot of artists have multiple names. モヒカンサンドバッグ is the second result for being similar to itself! Last.fm also does a pretty awful job by putting ORANGE★JAM and 3L on the first page, with dBu closely following. Much more similar producers and circles like 和泉幸奇, Alstroemeria, or IOSYS are nowhere to be found. Izmizm and Shibayan on page 1 are sensible. So maybe Last.fm isn't all that much better than nothing...

I think this can be good, and I might even pay for it, but ultimately it will be just one of a handful of half-solutions that need to be combined to get quality discovery. Pandora and Google Music's instant playlist do better than I would expect any people-who-like-x-also-like-y similarity system to do. Unfortunately Pandora has like 7 artists in its library and Google Music's instant playlist requires you to already have the music you are discovering, which sort of misses the point.
Mandatory related non-xkcd comic: www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1883
I've always known him as Wally, it looks like "Waldo" is an american thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where's_Wally
That's what it's for, that's why it's called ALERT.

Jokes aside, having something show up on the page would probably work better.
This is pretty cool. I'm impressed with the quality of the recommendations and really like how simple the site is. Some info on how you calculate the recs would be interesting. (at least for this thread). I only wish the layout was a little better on my phone. (Sent from iPhone)

PS I also second the other comments that the type ahead could be a little more lenient.
Just positing that these things _might_ be true and should be investigated was a key factor in Larry Summers getting drummed out of his position as President of Harvard.

The world at large isn't ready to hear these statistics, and overall that is probably a good thing. We shouldn't accept these disparities as driven by natural forces until we've tried everything we can imagine to try to bring the differences in line.

Over the course of history, far more bad has been wrought by assuming differences were innate than assuming they were the result of bias. Given that, we should assume and act as though differences are due to bias long after the differences are well proven to be natural. It is a case where being wrong in one direction is not very costly, but being wrong in the other direction (and thus institutionalizing bias) is disastrous.

Tldr: we should err on the side of caution.
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I don't mean to go all Richard Stallman (who is looking less and less like a crackpot every day!), but the moral of the story for users is, you should not install anything that is not open to the scrutiny of the community. If the source is not available, anything could be in there. Intel decides to give include a virus that wipes your hard drive in the next update? Yeah, well, good luck.

I'm not saying that having the source available is a guarantee because every user will definitely read it. I'm saying having the source available is a guarantee because, when a developer notices a weird service on his computer, he can immediately check out what it does instead of depending on Intel for it.
I agree. He comes across as a great communicator, cheerful and outgoing, and is genuinely driven by his interest in science, as opposed to being forced by his parents (who seem nice/normal) to be "a genius" which can often lead to bad things later in life as an adult - burnout, depression, substance abuse etc.

It's a shame many HN'rs on this discussion thread can't see the bright side of things with this kid. Yes I agree he didn't build a full blown power generating fusion reactor, but what he did get to work on (and understand how it works) is far beyond what most kids get up to at age 14. Good luck to him and I look forward to seeing him contribute good things to humanity through his science and research.
Has hipmunk been compromised or are they selling customer emails?
It's interesting that Tesla says they will pay regardless of fault. That must make the insurers very excited.
The engineer who fixed his own heart
If you physically operate out of New York, that does still require paying NY State a $300/year "foreign corporation doing business in New York" fee, plus a one-time $225 filing fee: http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/publications/corporation/pub24.pdf

("Foreign" in this usage means out-of-state, not necessarily international: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_corporation)
Oh I know. :) That part's only semi-automated, though, I bring the new data in, in manual batches. If the overall artist popularities in the new data don't match the existing data to within a certain degree (and also watching IP addresses and submission time patterns), then that data won't get counted.
I guess it all depends on the meaning of of?
If I understand correctly, the idea here is that IQ is measurable (even if the measurement is noisy) and real (has predictive power, doesn't change). This is accomplished by studies that look to test individuals at different points in life. Secondly, IQ is mostly genetic. This is evidenced mostly by twin studies. Thirdly, math tests are okay IQ tests.

Note that I'm not saying that things are one way or another, or that the reason there are so few women in tech is genetic. Just explaining how the ideas go together. It COULD be that way.
But then you have to go back to the original question: what is it about maleness and femaleness that makes it possible that in so many societies around the world, the same patterns exist? You can't have culture without brains to create it. And the brains of males and females in different cultures seem to be producing similar patterns.
3-5mm is standard, but if I remember this books rightly they're fairly cheaply bound (it's been a while since I've seen my copy of the one in that post, saddle stitched or stapled). Assuming a 5mm bleed, you can have at most 1cm cut in from the edge, which is substantial.
Whether you're a Bitcoin hater or fanboi, you can't ignore that there is "something there". Every time someone predicts the Bitcoin bubble burst, and it's correct, it comes back faster, harder, more profitable, and becomes more resilient after the fact.

Personally, I'm enjoying watching the anthropological and economical impacts of Bitcoin on our culture. It may end up doing nothing long term, and just a crypto kiddie hobby, but it may also turn heads, and cause concern for legal regulation by law makers.

/me grabs the popcorn.
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Simple solution: Don't ever incorporate in NY.

I know our C-corps are always done in Delaware. Does anyone know the 'best' place for LLC's?
Great stuff! I happen to really like all recommendations that came in for me.

Some suggestions: this pure social graph approach could be vastly improved for music recommendation by aggregating tags, à la last.fm, or adding music-related features yielded by some waveform analysis.

For instance, I typed in Tame Impala and got these results in this order: Real Estate - Girls - Beach Fossils - Toro Y Moi - Washed Out - Wavves - James Blake.
The first three relate well to modern psych rock of Tame Impala, but then things get a little strange: two chillwave acts, one correctly similar psych/noise rock act and a dubstep/downtempo artist!
Outlook 2011 for Mac has a setting, under Reading.
Automatically download pictures from the Internet:

*In all messages
*In messages from my contacts
*Never [I think this is the default]

Your contacts list could act as your whitelist.
We switched from PHP to Python a few years back and the one thing I consistently miss is the documentation. I feel that PHP has far superior documentation in terms of clearly showing arguments, returns, examples etc.
I invited three women to be on the board of my corporation. All of them turned me down. All of the men I invited onto my board accepted.
But there are costs for registered agents?
If a house is on fire, one bickers about wether that was malice or stupidity before putting it out, they're nuts. That as a foreword, a note to self and everybody.

> not to mention the body bags.

Unless you have a specific set of bodybags in mind, I would actually say, the way civilians get attacked with drones (including a second strike to hit first responders, yay), and also going to war with Iraq for exactly zero good reasons, including niceties such as Abu Ghraib, would make it obvious that "the government" is fighting for terrorism, that is, the creation of more terrorists, while ignoring warnings from both experts in the field as well as random strangers who happen to be able to add 2 and 2.

Of course they wouldn't want to actually get overtaken by terrorism, but at the same time, NO terrorism would be nearly as useless. All of this is huuuge business, taken in total. All the gadgets and wars, all the dead people ("even Americans") and all the people being spied on ("even Americans"), may not do anything to prevent terrorism, but they represent a real cashflow, that's one big, fat fact. They also do provide a justification for total surveillance and the militarization of pretty much everything. That doesn't mean it's all made up and just a scam; terrorists are real, and they're not all "created by being mean to people", sometimes people are terrorists because they're dicks. But that doesn't mean that a.) other parties can't find ways to profit off all that, and b.) they can't find ways to fuel the fire, either on purpose or by being so stupid and full of it, that there isn't a meaningful difference between that actual malice, and the question becomes moot.

Why is terrorism objectionable? Because it destroys lives, and the lives of all those who live in fear. Not "because it's terrorism", but because of those and related things. So something done "in reaction" to that, and to "fight" it, especially when it is zero effective in actually fighting it, that does those same things, is a sibling of terrorism, not its counterpart. Which is unrelated to the question at hand but I wanted to point it out anyway. That you and I are not activists that "goes to sleep each night worried they might wake up with a gun in their mouth" (to paraphrase Appelbaum), or kids in Elsewhereistan whose grandmother was killed in a random drone attack and who can't enjoy a sunny day without fear ever since, or any day for that matter, makes it easy to underappreciate how real and fucked up this is. The terrorism it "fights" does not cause as much pain to the American people as the actions of the military-industrial complex causes others, and, as sick and sad as it is to say that, it's a thousand times cheaper.

You know how some people don't light fireworks on NYE because they realized that's just blowing money and dirt into the air for no reason? Now consider all those drones and carriers and rockets, consider the data centers, consider the TSA, and stop pissing the future of your children away. Even if you can't be arsed to feel empathy for others, consider the damage it does to you.