skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep:

gpg: Signature made Sat 30 Nov 2013 21:47:11 GMT using DSA key ID F7E5D682
gpg: requesting key F7E5D682 from hkp server sks.keyservers.net
gpg: key F7E5D682: public key "Gwern Branwen <gwern@gwern.net>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
gpg: Good signature from "Gwern Branwen <gwern@gwern.net>"
gpg: aka "Gwern Branwen <gwern0@gmail.com>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 85F9 9FDE 8F20 898F 59BC DF32 BE90 E8E4 F7E5 D682

Although anyone can create a key with the uid "Gwern Branwen <gwern@gwern.net>" and upload it to the keyservers. There's no email verification involved.
Of course - the reverted commit seems to be much more likely the result of personal differences rather than sexism. At least to me.
'maybe the GQHC (or whatever it is called) and the NSA wouldn't have bugged the entire planet.'

Yeah let's not be hyperbolic...

Its GCHQ BTW
Ask PG: Do you still consider character count a good Prime Directive for an HLL?
I was just about to code an IF and used COND instead, even with the extra parens, and thought about Arc and the principle I recall Mr. Graham stating rather unequivocally (hope I get this right, but it made a strong impression at the time) that any syntax suggestion that made code shorter was A Good Thing.

My non-trivial exercise in Arc gave me syntax anxiety, because the shortening was usually achieved by syntax cleverness requiring a pause while I reminded myself of the shortcut's usage.

Now that I think on it, I recall Mr. Graham saying another big design principle was that the language be small enough to keep in one's head, and it seems to me that would argue against cleverness as well as specification index page cont.

I am just wondering if Mr. Graham has any follow-up thoughts on language design based on his Arc experience, and specifically on the "shorter is better" rule.
Pronoun Power
There are two India's now. The 100 million upwardly mobile middle and richer class living in walled inner cities and the 900 million+ poor and desperate people who need all kinds of poverty alleviation that the government can provide. The 100 million class wants better infrastructure, more tech jobs, open and corruption free democracy, space programs and more and they'll(we'll) get some of it. The rest cannot be helped easily. Even pouring money in rural tech cannot help most. Bulk of the poor now live in urban slums/poor suburbs around big cities. Money that goes to space programs would be a pittance for alleviating the poor masses. For the most part, the poor uneducated people cannot be helped from their own voting decisions that bring corrupt and inefficient politicians and crowd pleasing policies.
Communication? Check
Ubiquiti devices all the way [1] [2]. They're the hacker's choice!

Before I discovered Ubiquiti, the Linksys WRT54Gx series was my goto. The problem with them is that, as a given WRT54Gx line matures, they usually shave down the specs. You can see that in action with the WRT54GS series here [3], which debuted with 8MB of flash and now only sports 2MB. Good luck getting anything useful into 2MB.

The other problem with the WRT54Gx's is that there's quite a lot of hardware and architecture variation under the hood. You're usually fine, but I do have one WRT54G-RG at home here that wouldn't even take OpenWRT. It's running DD-WRT, which is a ghetto. (I see some other commenters here feel similarly).

Anyway the Ubiquiti PicoStation 2HP, by contrast, has

- 8MB of flash
- 32MB of RAM
- a nice Atheros SoC which transmits at the legal max of 1000 mW
- can easily be outfitted with high gain external antennas
- works perfectly under OpenWRT, and
- is competitively priced at $78 [4]

The only downside: if you need extra ethernet ports, you'll want a separate switch or possibly a wired router. But I think it's worth it. You shouldn't put an all-in-one wireless / router device on the public internet. The commenter who runs pfSense on an x86 system has the right idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829315

Source: I started a live entertainment company 4 years ago. We use Ubiquiti equipment in all our shows, and we've deployed about 50 PicoStations with our own OpenWRT packages to date.

[1] http://www.ubnt.com/picostation

[2] http://www.ubnt.com/nanostation

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series#WRT54GS

[4] http://store.netgate.com/Ubiquiti-PicoStation2HP-80211bg-100...
'currency' and speculation never go well together. You really only get one or the other.
http://www.calwhine.com/lessons-from-spains-bullet-train-the...

http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/10/bullet-train-brings-americ...
I disagree with that entire premise.

Yes it requires technology to collect the tolls. We have that down to a pretty efficient science these days thanks to cameras. They don't even slow down traffic to collect tolls.

I've never encountered a toll road that wasn't a major expressway. The coffee house argument is non-sensical.

Toll roads have a very attractive benefit to me. I don't drive. I'm kind of happy to have the people who make the decision to live far away from their work to actually pay for the cost of their commute.
It's because they're using Scala :-)
If that's the true number, then yes, absolutely.
well, usually the state government has some body which certifies these labs. that works for shit (see colorado).

the only real audit is defendants having the evidence retested by their own experts. reputable privately operated laboratories doing this sort of testing for forensic purposes do exist.
Not the same. At all. And I highly doubt they are coming to Montana anytime soon.
The sum of those 40000 sentences.
Your second paragraph seems to answer the question posed in the first one. If patent trolls actually produced nonobvious inventions and infringers were mostly copiers instead of independent inventors, then patent trolls would not be much of a problem.
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I think the market for trucks will be far more disrupted. The idea of having "drone" containers seems far more easily realized and higher value added than civilian passenger autos. The average A->B distances are longer (miles/trip), the routes simpler (turns/mile) and the roads are less complex (fewer on-grade intersections). It seems an automated "carpool lane" would be a huge benefit. As would the avoidance of speeding and drowsy driving by semi/lorry drivers. Furthermore, removing this rolling stock from passenger car rights of way would itself be an improvement in safety (if for no other reason than > visibility).
You have my vote for next patent commissioner.
they do deserve a new trial.

if their offense was not sufficient to warrant holding in jail before the trial I think they should be let out on ankle bracelets or such.

The simple matter here is, the evidence was faulty. Hopefully no prosecutors were in on it, but if the evidence was used to convict then any conviction is suspect.

Numbers don't matter when justice is determined. The government should have better means to validate its employees are doing what they are supposed to do.

I would have liked to seen the Chemist sentenced to life, or at least the cumulative number of years of all sentences with tampered evidence.
People with a conflict of interest are often the best to criticize something, as they have a bigger incentive to do a good and thorough job. Treating them with heightened skepticism is good, but dismissing them out of hand is bogus.
Relevant Futuram clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbCk1XNfTs4
"Perhaps we differ on what sort of texts count as essays, but I would note that many people on this site find Paul Graham's essays to be compelling, and in general his essays do not comprise a collection of disparate examples surprisingly linked through a common thread."

I think you need to go back and re-read the essays. They're almost exclusively composed of the assertion/example style of argumentation (which is not a dig; again, this is pretty much the canonical essay format), and I think you'd be hard-pressed to hold them to the standard of "statistical validity" (again, this is fine: we're talking about literature, not a math paper).

What's going on here is that you don't agree with the thesis of this piece, but you're unwilling to engage on the merits of the argument. It's much easier to just attack the form of the essay than to counter each example.
Actually society adores and idolizes women. I suppose you had some unfortunate personal experiences that made you believe otherwise.
While I've never been there, my impression of LA is that it's very sprawling. Maybe not everyone has to go to one central area to work. Unlike Chicago's Loop or lower Manhattan where a lot of the commutes tend to converge in one general area. If few people have the same commute destination, individual cars would be more effective than mass transit.
No, David Miranda has not been charged with anything. Before you suggest someone else "spend some time on Google", perhaps you should do so yourself.

He was held under the Terrorist Act, section 7, a section which allows the police to hold people for a limited time for the purpose of establishing whether they may be terrorists.

If he had been charged under the Terrorist Act he would have been currently residing in a high security UK prison, not been allowed to continue his flight after a few hours.

And I stand by what I wrote. Greenwald and Miranda has acknowledged that he was carrying data related to the Snowden leaks. While I believe using section 7 is a blatant abuse of the Terrorism Act in this case, and that the Terrorism Act itself is a travesty, he was carrying documents that, regardless whether we think the should be public (I am all for their publication, and I'm a big fan of Greenwald and Snowden), are classified and originated from a high profile leak.

Now despite this, and despite their willingness to abuse the Terrorist Act to detain him and search him and confiscate some equipment, they did not do anything else.

When you can carry confidential intelligence documents through a UK airport and only risk being detained for a few hours and having them taken off you, that is a prime demonstration that the government is still thankfully quite impotent when it comes to touching journalists or those working for them (I'm not willing to assume it'd be safe for someone not linked directly or indirectly to a major media organization to do the same).
How is this post different from any other thread on the bitcointalk.org speculation forum[1]?

[1] - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0
Prolog is ancient but awesome.
M. Odersky: "Scala levels: beginner to expert, programmer to designer" (2011)
Add some "parallel discovery" courtesy of the NSA and you've got a recipe for tyranny.
You're assuming too much about academia and the people in it. We're not all automatons driven by the need to write papers. Plenty of people (eg grad students) are willing to commercialise research work given the opportunity.

Also, please don't assume that whatever can get published in a Nature paper is ready for mainstream use. It can take years of further R&D (that's not paper-worthy) to actually create something for the market. Dis-incentivising that process would be detrimental in the long term.

Note: my comments relate to science-based patents, not software ones (I don't really understand those).

Edit: If the problem is with the Patent system, that's where a solution must be found. Identify and deal with the actual problem, not the symptoms.
Question: why isn't gold the international reserve currency?
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What is this, divide and conquer? Grow up.
What We Need in a Next-Gen Social Network
'just words'? Take away words and what have you got? Don't belittle them.
> How hard would it have been to insert a random cross check in to the system? So every 300 tests, the sample is retested by another lab?

the states are barely willing to pay for this sort of testing in the first place, let alone having it performed repeatedly.

defendants are generally able to get the evidence retested themselves. very hand wavily, that sort of thing will tend to cost $100-$1000.
Not at all! This is just what in the olden days they would have called "Internet Time".
Every time I read about life in North Korea I'm reminded of "Meeks," a spooky little novel by Julia Holmes. Nothing in the book says it's about North Korea, but I think she must have been inspired by it.
It is. However it has nothing to do with the protocol, it's just a fact that a lot of people are extremely money driven.

This can happen to housing, precious metals, bitcoin or anything else. Doesn't mean that the concepts of housing, precious metals or bitcoin are flawed. It's just people that are flawed, but we carry on with that reality.
By forming a majority.
The way I value bitcoin is to take the fully diluted market cap (21 million * $850 ~= $18 billion) and apply a money velocity which I assumed to be similar to US M2 velocity of 1.6 ($18 billion * 1.6 ~= $28.5 billion). Since global ecommerce transactions are about $1 trillion / yr this implies that bitcoin should penetrate 2.85% of ecommerce. Big assumption here is that bitcoin does not work for real-world transactions as the confirmation time is > 15 min. This may be oversimplified because a lot of real-world transactions don't need to be real time. I'm also excluding time value effects which you can insert back in if you like.

From the data I have seen, the bitcoin real economy could be orders of magnitude smaller than that implied by the current price, although there is no way to know precisely how large it is. This is including "illegal" transactions (I'm not sure why sam is discounting drug transactions, unless he means to imply that these will be shutdown. It does make sense to exclude gambling transactions as they are extremely high velocity).

Note that sam's point about merchants immediately converting BTC back to USD serves to increase the money velocity (perhaps by >10x). This would mean that BTC is pricing in a real economy even larger than $28.5 billion. Based on current BTC-denominated real transactions, fair value of BTC is at most only a few dollars.
This is different. This is a horse you ask nicely to take you there but once you're locked inside it can take you anywhere. The issue is not safety, it's control.
I don't see why QoS is such an important feature for a personal router. If he is (and I assume he is) the primary user of his network, then why is QoS control necessary?
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Somebody Put a Camera on a Toy Car and Drove It Into a Pride of Lions
I have to wonder what the difference in BOM costs there is between 8MB of flash and 2MB of flash? Consumer USB flash prices in the 10+GB range are around 0.05 pennies per MB. Surely at the point, the cost of the enclosure dwarfs the cost of the actual memory for flash chips in the MB range.

It seems like the cost of retooling would far outweigh any cost savings from spinning a new rev with 6MB less flash.
His article is premised on this:

"The estimates I’ve heard from smart people that really follow bitcoin are that legitimate transactions are up only about 2-3x from a year ago"

That's hardly scientific. I've used Bitcoin for several purchases of "legitimate" things, and look to continue to do so whenever possible.
There were many cries of "It's Crashing!" a week or two ago when it mtGox hit $1000 and then started falling. It stabilised around $800 before climbing up again.

This may be the same, or it might not. I can't tell, and probably neither can you. What you can be assured of is those who scream "It's a Crash!" at the first sign of a drop have generally been wrong more often than right. Some will be right when it does crash, but how much of that is luck, wisdom, or the fact that they got it right by calling it enough times that they were bound to hit the mark when it did happen.
A word of caution regarding Rentify: I had some email correspondence with their CTO, Buff, last year when they had previously advertised on a "Who is hiring?" thread here, as I was then looking for something new in London.

They asked me to complete a coding exercise, which I spent a Saturday afternoon doing ( https://github.com/jasonl/property_search )and submitted it to them, and then I did not hear back - not so much as a single email reply! - despite repeated follow-ups.

If you're a Rails coder in London, you can definitely do better than a company that treats prospective employees as disdainfully as this.
Comet Ison may have survived
Me too re: jail times, but since being "hard on crime" is the politically convenient position for politicians, why not be hard on the right kinds of crime?

What's worse is that the system didn't detect the problem for such a long time. Why isn't laboratory analysis blinded? We already spend truckloads of money funding an elaborate appeals process, why isn't there a check on lab analysis? With the drug industry imploding, chemists (real chemists) are struggling to find work, so they could even call it a jobs program if need be.

How can a voter rock the boat over an issue so far down on the political issue list?
These days everything changes everything. It's a dreadful phrase that should be retired.
I have a question. Is BTC inherently crash resistant right now? Due to the difficulties of withdrawing large amounts of money at once from BTC, wouldn't that make the currency pretty resistant to a crash?
How does being offshore make it more fungible?

I cannot buy groceries, pay my mortgage, put gas in my car, etc as I do with the USD right now. Because I can't use BTC as easily as USD it is by definition less fungible.

It also seems seizable. Didn't Silk Road have their stuff taken?

It does seem more safe in BTC form but again to use it for most things requires an exchange back into a popular currency and state actors can easily control exchanges.
He sold at $300, I bet he regrets that decision.

https://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/398865551730036736
Sure, but there is reason to believe it is different this time around. We are close to automating away all blue collar jobs outside of the service sector. We are also making inroads in white collar jobs too like law and medicine. At some point, minus an apocalypse, we will be able to automate away most meaningful work for everyone. This was not the case 150 years ago.
> Then, as has happened before, it will climb back up to $1200 and beyond, probably up to somewhere between $4K and $10K before the next big crash. If you do want to speculate on crypto currencies, wait a day or three and you’re about to get a great deal on Bitcoin.

These kind of statements are a red flag for me. The majority of the people trading bitcoins seem to be interested in capital appreciation or alternative assets (e.g. Chinese stashing assets), rather than using it as a currency for transactions. Currencies are embraced for their stability and predictability... that's why the USD is a reserve currency for the rest of the world.

The Economist sums some of this up in their recent article:
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21590901-it-looks-over...
See http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/01/silk-ro... for background information.
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How many of those 190,000 pose a risk of harm to other people? How many of them were violent, or sexual[1], offenders?

[1] Laws are different in different places, but here I'm talking about actual sex offences, not things like public urination. (Which is gross, but usually not a sexual offence).
I'm pretty sure there are still people that genuinely enjoy riding horses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasers_and_aviation_safety
Honestly I think this is a situation where the death penalty is entirely appropriate. I don't like the idea of more suffering when there is already plenty to go around here, but I can't see how you can call it "justice" if she is allowed to live. An example must be set that this kind of thing is so repugnant to civilized societies that it WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

EDIT: The scale of her crimes is thousands of person-years of human life in jail. Some of them probably deserved it, others probably didn't. There is a serious asymmetry here, she has only 50-100 years that she can be imprisoned and that's not a strong enough message to people in the government who would think about doing the same to further their own careers as well.
I remember around 12 or so years ago, the concept of being "in the zone" appeared (in the mainstream) and was talked about in relation to athletic performances. Since then the term seems to have been more and more loosely applied to more and more subjects. As such I think the meaning of the term has been lost to an extent (the way I understood it as applied to sports). I mean does programming actually have "clear and immediate feedback"? Most of the time it doesn´t even seem to have "a clear set of goals and progress" in my place of work.

The way I look at it "riding a bicycle" could fit the description given above. But I would see a world cup downhill mountain biker as being in flow. As such not everyone will achieve a state of flow, so many people will use the term without having actually experienced it.

For programming, maybe uninterrupted concentration would be a better term, or maybe I just haven achieved a state of flow while programming, whereas I feel I have in some sports.
It is retarded that this has been upvoted to the main page. I am disappointed in all of you.
> Edit: Goes to prove that a _GOOD_ defense lawyer would have dig that up during cross exam. (if that is a thing)

sure, the defense lawyer can ask questions, but what series of questions do you think they could've asked that would've done anything here?

they would've needed to perform pre-trial investigations of the lady (such as the state police performed) to discover this. which isn't out of the question, but isn't very likely to be worth it for the defendants. (cost high, likelihood of useful information low.)