skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I like about fuzzy logic is that it pushes a lot of paradoxes down a level. Instead of having paradoxes bubble up to the top level and derailing discussion, you instead turn fuzziness into an abstract object which is polymorphic to other logical objects.

This gives you the handles you need to grasp and wrestle with the vagueness of the actual world without either needing to give up rigour or rely on hacks and undocumented conventions about the mapping from the real world into the logical world.

If you've got the patience, I can give as an example a long review I wrote of Sidney Dekker's Drift into Failure, where in part I argued that his argument largely vanishes if reframed in terms of fuzzy logic: http://chester.id.au/2012/04/09/review-drift-into-failure/

Edit: Hmm, I really look like a spammer in this thread. Not intentional. No more than usual, anyhow.
I feel the same way about 3D printing. Now everyone and their mother can produce 3D objects without even committing themselves to mastering industrial design. And companies can now prototype half assed products cheaply without having to invest millions of dollars. This is truly a sad era...
SpaceX is the company that really makes Elon Musk a role model for me. I find everything they do inspirational. I must have watched that video of their employees outside mission control watching the falcon 9 launch a dozen times [1]. You should see the lines of students at my university's career fair when they come, you almost can't even see the recruiters behind the sea of undergrads swarming their booth.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XtD-5L7cLk
Wow, I'm always running late--that would definitely make me miss my flight, 7 times out of 10!
Cool I'll share it on behalf of hackinghealth.ca (We do events where hackers connect with doctors to build similar stuff. So I'll definitely plug that website when people contact me with their new health mobile app :))
Hey!

Yahoo Answers is pretty interesting and it works on a point based system. Basically, the more questions you answer, the more points you gain. You also get points for "voting" on the best answer to each question (not as many as answering though). If the most people vote for your answer as "best answer" then you get 10 points.

That may have been a confusing explanation, but I definitely like the system (which keeps users engaged). And Hacker News does this as well with its karma system, although it works in a different way. Some of my friends are hooked on to this one chatting website (www.zobe.com), and it has a karma system as well. Basically, all the sites i've seen that have a point based/karma system are quite "vicious" as you put it (they have very consistent users).

I also forgot to mention- I also began recently using Quora, and i've liked it so far! Reminds me of Yahoo Answers but it definitely seems newer and fancier.

I'm interested in hearing more about the project you're working on! Please elaborate on what you're trying to do :)
And it's not worth the cost of stopping her.
Looks like the system can be gamed by an artist than listens to his 4 min track 24/7. If it pays about $0.007 per stream, listening to a 4 min song would pay out $75 - $10 of the subscription fee = $65/month/subscription. That wouldn't happen if the royalties redistribution was done on a per subscription basis.
As far as I can tell, Global Entry is for re-entry to the US. Selected members of the program were offered to be in Pre-Check but they don't go hand in hand. And starting tomorrow, you will be able to apply for Pre-Check directly.

EDIT: Okay, I'm not sure about the relationship between Global Entry and Pre-Check. The TSA website says "Certain members of CBP's Trusted Traveler programs, including Global Entry, [...] that have been invited to opt-in qualify to participate." but other sites say that they are eligible automatically.
Yes, some people who do work still need those big things called laptops.
Stackexchange (and to a lesser extent Quora and LinkedIn) are the obvious answers
At $10/hr you'll only attract the worst kind of clients: those who think that your time is not valuable, that will try to scam you, that will try to get you to do stuff for free.

You'll also have the problem that freelancing at $10/hr simply isn't sustainable. Keep in mind that you have to do your taxes and probably need help with that, need equipment, etc. I assume you still live at home so you don't have expenses like rent, food, insurances, pension payments, etc.

That being said, good luck. And keep doubling your prices as soon as you get more work than you want to handle.
Yeah, going straight to GEO isn't very efficient. Instead SpaceX (and most other commercial operations) insert the satellite into GTO and then the satellite's operators take over and do the final burn into GEO.
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It takes less energy to change your orbital inclination (think "angle") from the orbit they are putting it in than from geosynchronous. Once it reaches the right inclination, they will put into the final orbit having used less fuel than they would have if they had launched it directly.
Is it just me or does it seem like the bottle neck at most of the checkpoints is NOT ppl taking off their shoes/coats/laptops out of the bags/etc.

It always seems to me like the bottleneck is the actual xray machine. Ppl seem to always be waiting to push their stuff through the xray machine before going through the body scanner.

The human looking at the screen is either the bottleneck or the machine itself can't run that fast, I'm not sure which.

If a significant proportion of ppl get TSA-Pre then we'll have the same problem no? It will no longer be fast unless they increase the # of xray machines per passenger. In which case, why not do that now, without the need for TSA pre.
Minus the cost of a dedicated server. Minus the risk of getting caught. Minus the probability spotify has a trivial cap in their software to prevent it. Gets you pretty close to $0.
The controversy penalty would be perfect for an article like this that features and builds off a linkbait title, which I now feel a little duped for reacting to.

But after finding out Sam Altman is a YC partner, and reading more about how the controversy penalty and other arbitrary penalties actually work, I don't really buy into anything scoring equitably on this site (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844169) in the long term...
Imagine if the local news outlet did a "consumer watchdog" piece on a contractor going around installing windows or doors in homes and businesses with locks that can be easily opened without a key. Then imagine the contractor acknowledged the issue but threatened to sue the news outlet for hurting their business.
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3.38 oz = 100 mL. Lots of toiletries come in 100 mL containers.
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What an idiot, he could have reacted with gratitude and done his part to convince his customers that he would make the situation right.

Instead, he's opened himself up for a flurry of negative attention not only from the public but from the unethical hacking community.
Microsoft led the standardization process for the Annex K functions.
I tend to agree with you on this.

At the end of the day no one can argue that someone that lives on $20,000 a month doesn't have a better quality of life than someone living on $5000 a month.

I totally appreciate the sentiment in the article but at the end of the day, money equals freedom.

If I had assets of $5 to $10 million in investments throwing off $200k-$500k a year in cash, that would be a nice lifestyle indeed.

Does it mean I would work any less harder? Probably not. But, if I want to take that 3-4 month trip to Europe and spend 50k on the trip, then that's what I would do.

And I think the comparison is wrong. Being billionaire is incrementally better than a multimillionaire (let's say net worth of $5 million and beyond).

Making $100k a year is definitely not close to somebody making $500k a year.

In terms of starting a company and the risks involved, I think for most people that do it, its an itch. The money is the reward but that's not why we want to do it.

I also think that the odds increase dramatically when you focus on building a business where you don't expect it to ever go IPO or be worth more than 5-10 million.
Why don't you just pay him for the service he provided you? Is your bounty that high that you can't afford to?

It seems the negative publicity you are getting is going to cost you more..
I'm not sure it is better than piracy.

In both cases, there's no further incentive for a consumer to pay out to get better access to the music. AFAICT at current royalty rates, artists get about the same amount of money they get from piracy.

Except with piracy, people know the way they obtained the music is questionable/unsustainable, so in some people it probably creates a drive towards future patronage of some kind.

Meanwhile, Spotify gives the illusion that you're involved in a legitimate transaction and have more or less done your duty, while what's basically happening behind the scenes is we have a "disruptor" whose main innovation so far appears to be replacing recording revenues with the fractional broadcast revenue.

Better experience for the consumer, though!
Let's all agree that had Shubham not posted what had happened prezi wouldn't have done anything. This is just a PR stunt to save face.
I also do work and travel with a laptop but it doesn't weigh 8lb. The point he was making is iPads aren't so different to laptops in 2013, so why are they treated so differently at airports?
and RAM, and hard drives, and graphics cards... I suspect 2014 will be my last high-end desktop purchase.
Hacker news mobile client:

http://hn.premii.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn
Nubelo raises $1.3M and acquires a Brazilian competitor
Most of these concepts are things I try to squeeze in for my Calculus students when we have extra time. If I got to choose the curriculum, this would all be standard.

Looks beautiful, wish it would load well.
To which I say, what is the point of words like "only" and "all", if they do not mean what they are supposed to?

I'm not trying to be a stickler. Granted, I work mostly in science research, where broad claims are discouraged and quantifying confidence in a hypothesis is expected. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

At best, I think this rule could apply to (maybe) 80% of "huge" tech companies. 80% is a disingenuously long distance from "all companies".
I agree with this. I have a much better chance being killed by a local cop than anything to do with terrorism.
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He's founded a company. It was talent-acquired, but that's more than most professors of business ever achieve.

Aside from the specific situation - I'm kinda curious what HN readers think "qualifies" a person to give advice. My girlfriend's doing an MBA. I read her coursework sometimes. Some of it is useful with the appropriate grain of salt applied, but I find that blog postings from people who have actually run businesses (or listening to Larry, Urs, Amit, Milo, Andy etc. at Google-internal presentations and trying hard to read between the lines) are far more informative. There is the theory and there is the reality when it comes to running businesses, and most of the theory is bunk.
The fundamental flaw with this analysis is that statistics are descriptive, not predictive.

You can't reliably predict the future with statistics alone. If you could, then technical analysis of the stock market would be the most successful investing strategy. It is not.

Likewise, a lot of folks seem to think that taking an historical statistical trend and extending it into the future is a scientific approach to football coaching. It's not.

Scientists use statistics to understand evidence, but they formulate theories in terms of root causes. In other words it's not enough to know that dropping a hammer has a high correlation with acceleration of 10 meters per second squared. If you want to predict how fast other objects in the future will fall, you need a theory that describes why and how anything falls.

It doesn't look to me like the 4th down bot embodies or implements any cohesive theory of football success. It just finds trends and dots the line into the future.
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I appreciate that the guy's attitude is just awful, but the author really should have given him a chance to respond/react before contacting his clients. Doing so doesn't preclude notifying them eventually. It's just common courtesy.
Contact the vendor, give them time to fix it. Wtf are your contacting his customers?

Sam, you are truly a moron.
LOL

http://www.websmartconsulting.com/profile.php?ClientID='
If you join GE you can add your Trusted Traveler Number to your airline reservations. Reports on FlyerTalk are that most get PreCheck 99% of the time after that.

The other way of joining Pre was to hold elite status on a participating airline and opt-in. This yielded far less success, anywhere from 0-90%.

As a United platinum member I was getting Pre about half the time, traveling weekly. I got GE over the summer and have gotten Pre 100% since then.

Even if you're eligible for Pre, the TSA doesn't always grant Pre as a "security measure."
The article presents this like it's a bad thing. APU-like architectures are the future of computing, and I'm glad that AMD will be focusing on them.

Now if only we had really good GPGPU frameworks to compile generic code to OpenCL and make use of those extra cores for non-graphics, non-numerical applications.
I agree as well - this "apology" sounds so wishy-washy and weak.
I recall coming across a web site aimed specifically at connecting entrepreneurs with engineers, designers, etc., willing to work for equity, but cannot find it now.

There are http://www.equitive.com/ and http://www.kaywebangels.com/, but that's essentially outside funding.
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In my experience both are a bottle-neck. Any queuing theory experts here?
And it is only a matter of time until McDonalds is effectively a brick and mortar sized 3D printer of food-like compounds with a Siri interface...
Trusted Traveler is what you could call the list that Pre-Check vets you against, so Pre-Check is really just Trusted Traveler. Yes, Global Entry is only for returning to the US (you couldn't imagine it would be more, it is a US-run program), but it does also enter you into the Trusted Traveler program. The only reason I know this is a recent client of mine is a travel industry expert who spent time clarifying the programs and how they interact with each other. Their frugal recommendation is, if you travel outside the US, the smart move is to do Global Entry, more bang for your dollar.
It doesn't seem that he felt like taking any action since 2010
I find Websmart's attempt at trying to put this man out of a job absolutely disgusting. No doubt, Sam Bowne will think twice before reporting vulnerabilities next time. Even though I'm not in any way related to this incident, I've send Sam a thank you note because I think the web community needs more people like him. If you want to do the same, his e-mails are in the link, but for ease of access: sam(dot)bowne at gmail, sbowne at ccsf(dot)edu .
This is all fine and dandy but I actually find the approach taken by the professor in the first email to be quite unfriendly and perhaps even unprofessional. The guy from Websmart is actually right, there was no need to immediately contact his customers directly. You let the vendor handle the delicate subject with their customers and then take action directly (with a public disclosure) only if the vendor ignores you.
Rule #1 - Don't be an asshole.

You found a vulnerability in lots of sites so you contacted the vendor who was responsible for it. Cool. They replied and said they would fix it.

Going around and e-mailing their customers is kinda odd. Sure it may result in you feeling great but in the end the customers probably don't have a clue. Better to be mature about it and contact the vendor (who actually responds!)

If they stop responding or tell you to peeter off, then it might be reasonable to do some type of disclosure. But not before you actually give them a chance to respond.
This is a good thing for the average computer because the average machine will have a discrete class GPU on the CPU. That means potentially millions of more potential gaming rigs to sell game software on. AMD's done their best work over the years when they pushed hard in an important area that Intel couldn't match (for a while).

This will make the average CPU a better processor for more users.
Now imagine that the local news outlet displayed a list of addresses of the homes than can be easily opened without a key. That's closer to what happened here. The disclosure was irresponsible. He could have contacted each site owner individually with information limited to their site. Instead, he sent a mass email to total strangers, putting some of them at risk, then blogged about it. That's stupid and inconsiderate.
The problem is that I am not an enterprise, or even a startup. My personal hobby sites are hosted on a proper sane internal network setup :\
Software matters. Here's a historic record of my attempt to eat at uWink, Nolan Bushnell's touchscreen restaurant: http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/05/uwink_a_cold_greasy_pl...
You're assuming that there isn't a shared secret between the sender and reciever.
If you're looking for new opportunities I have openings on my team.
Increasing revenue per install of your apps
Exactly my thought, This kind of math visualization has been on my mind ever since watching the talk "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"[0] by Bret Victor. I would totally be into contributing to this project

[0] http://vimeo.com/67076984
Front End Web Security - Practicing Safe Script
My understanding is that it has to do with familiarity. With so many iPads, they become a familiar pattern to the X-ray operator and instantly recognizable. Laptops, however, come in all kinds of shapes and sizes.

A few years back, my laptop needed to get hand-inspected because it didn't have a battery. It had completely bricked, so I didn't even bother taking it with me. TSA wanted to get a second look at it to figure out why it looked so weird.
This news isn't a huge surprise, but it still saddens me. It seems that I started getting into x86 hardware just as the CPU battle/Moore's law started dying.

My first real build had an Athlon 64 X2, and back then I foolishly assumed that the closeness of the competition was going to last (this was just before Conroe/Core 2 launched). I decided to upgrade to a Core 2 Quad a few years later, and an Ivy Bridge chip about a year ago. None of these upgrades, however, feel quite as potent as that first time when I switched from a Prescott Celeron to that Athlon 64 X2.

Sure, synthetic CPU benchmarks show that Moore's law isn't quite dead yet, but singlethreaded performance just is not the battleground it was a decade ago. I feel that somewhere along the line, people stopped pushing the envelope. Have we gotten to the point where people have run out of ideas to push their hardware with? Perhaps it's because physical limitations are being reached. Still, I can't help but fantasize about what the world would be like if the x86 market were as competitive as it were a decade ago.
Then I'll just use a C-style cast. :P
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I haven't been following this story that closely but I just don't understand why they don't pay him outside the bug bounty.

"Sorry this security hole wasn't in our bug bounty but we'd like to give you the reward anyway. Please sign these legal documents and let us know if you find anything else."

There is so much you can do by just being reasonable. Like if Prezi said they can't officially acknowledge it under the bug program but can just pay out some sort of reward it makes way more sense.

Besides. If the bug was in the code under a subdomain that someone exposed source code it would be the same thing.
If you can skip step two without spending an unjustifiable more amount of time, you're best. Possible? Not for everyone. A great goal? Sure thing.
Are you sure he was notified in those previous incidents? Sure, that's really poor behavior of the company, but you don't know if he was even aware. Sam should have responsibly disclosed the information assuming that it was not already known - his actions were indeed unprofessional and could've been approached differently - if there was still no action taken, then that's a whole other story.
I'm thinking of switching majors. I'm currently pursuing a masters in occupational therapy, but after a semester, I'm realizing it is just not for me. I did my undergrad in math and chemistry, and I've always regretted not doing at least a masters degree in math. Anyways, anyone else here a math guy? I've been out of math for almost 15 years. I'm kind of scared about going to grad school for math.
Really? I've "opted out" on every flight and it's never caused me to miss a flight. I only fly maybe 12 - 15 times roundtrip per year so maybe that is the difference.
Yes, the company has had plenty of time to fix this amateurish error on their own, especially since it has been reported/detailed on exploit sites in the past.
I think he's doing the site owners a favor by contacting the person who could actually do something about it in addition to the owner. Ordinarily, he'd probably only contact the site owner. In this case, he saw that the builder of the site was consistent across multiple sites and chose to additionally contact the builder and not just the owner.
> the provable aspects revolve mostly around concepts like the colour "grue". That is, people whose languages lack separate words for blue and green, using instead a single word for both that could be rendered in English as "grue", take longer to distinguish between blue and green.

What about languages that require the speaker to keep track of their spatial orientation?

And how come thinking and talking in English and German are both slightly different for me? Those languages aren't even far apart, but in my mind one can't replace the other.

> In the human world, the ability or inability to express a thought has a lot more to do with experience and culture than with any limitations that the language you speak may impose on you.

And again with the strawmen. Where did I claim such radical difference as being completely unable to express a specific thought, or seeing the world completely differently? Nowhere.

There's one big difference though, jokes. You can make some jokes in some languages, but they just don't work in others.
It's beautiful but unusable at the moment. Hopefully that will get worked out. I'd really like to experience it when it's ready.
Was Cantor Wrong? Are the real numbers countable?
Hmm, so a function similar to fread, but reading from another buffer instead of a file.
Edit: I meant to say "GPUs are not only in order", they are definitely not out of order.
A note for those who are thinking about making a "real" paint app out of these techniques - which I started on, got the architecture mostly done to a demonstration stage, and then stalled out on UI:

When you start adding in the flexibility of different tool types, differentiating "stroke" and "material", real-time preview vs. final, and other nuances, the internals start to resemble a dataflow system dealing with point paths and canvas buffers. Often you take raw input and derive a new path from it, or take an existing buffer and combine it with path data.

The basic rendering techniques really are this straightforward, it's just the flexibility requirement that adds complication.