skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well you can fantasize of course :-) Actual small flyers with both useful range and telemetry are still science fiction. The number to watch is the energy density / energy consumption ratio. Dragonfly like devices can currently get airborne and fly a few 10s of meters, but that is without any cargo capacity at all.

Not that someday it won't happen, rather that today you could carry a 12 ga shotgun shell around with a camera that lets you see where you are. All of that tech is 'off the shelf' today. Hence the more immediacy of the change.
Good answer.

Although you do not even need pfSense. You just need a BSD with pf. You can run your own customized BSD image with a Soekris or Alix board.

Can you run BSD with Ubiquiti's boards? What if I do not want a Linux-based system? There is no GNU pf.
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Sweet! I was hoping for a nice quick crash so I could buy at an opportune time.
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Looks like an algorithmic or manual bitcoin-sweep of the front page took place. I welcome a programming language article to the #1 spot.
A standard is currently being developed for DC distribution in datacenters and commercial buildings, at 380 volts.

One of the proposals for residential DC is to supply 380 volts and 24 volts. The higher voltage would be for things like space heaters and hairdryers, while the lower voltage would be for electronics.
Put some Mozart on in the background and it becomes quite soothing/fascinating to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0UmrCXxVA.
I have. The NE is the worst because they have the ancient small passenger cars. Out west they have the cool double decker passenger cars.

As far as slow, I slept most of the way from CHC to NYC for a recent HOPE conference (which was across the street from the station, no $45 cab ride (or whatever it is) from the airport for me).

I find taking the train to be very pleasant, although I prefer the rolling stock west of the Mississippi.
> LAPD is testing a special device to remotely stop cars instead of chasing them

This is already a reality, watch commercial for OnStar, this is exactly what they do.
I always wonder what the world will be like with thousands of truck and taxi drivers out of work. I know the same could be said for banking clerks (ATM), checkout clerks (automated checkout counters) etc. But I suspect the demographic is quite different.

Maybe we went through something similar when digging machines replaced people with shovels.
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Your post is so true. My parents still have all their money tied in to their mortgage because the government said it's good for them. Maybe I don't value US currency, because I don't value my US government which is completely broken from head to toe.

But, it isn't just an issue for people in the USA. It's a blessing for people who live in more oppressed region of the world. Look at what happened in Iceland and how the bankers stole from the people.

People don't like the idea of their wallet being on someone else's hard drive. And that's exactly how the current system is ran. Your money is in a vault, and you have to go through an even worse time to get it than I do. And I don't pay fees, and so on etc.
Counterexamples in Origami
So basically Malcolm Gladwell is right after all?
Horses have control issues as well. And a properly designed autonomous car is likely to have a manual override or emergency stop, things for which there are no good equivalents on a horse.
Sem_open named semaphores
The preamble addresses how they think software engineers should handle tensions between different sections of the code:

> In some situations standards may be in tension with each other or with standards from other sources. These situations require the software engineer to use ethical judgment to act in a manner which is most consistent with the spirit of the Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, given the circumstances.

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The simplistic view would be that every unjust sentence served by someone else as a result of her tampering should transfer to her.
It would have provided a single political party with a clear willingness to meaningfully stand up against the authoritarianism that runs rampant in our main two parties. It would have shown that they were willing to fight for the principles of their voter base. It would have given those who care about civil liberties a power base to work with and rally behind. Symbols matter.

To be clear, my view is not that bulk surveillance trends are something that needs a little adjustment, that one might work within the system to adjust appropriately. I see them as a wholesale betrayal of our society, and the idea that I voted for people who won't take a strong stand against this repels me.
Can't forget insurance fraud. I foresee a future where insurance companies will impose additional fees to cars that are "assisted" rather than fully autonomous.

What is assisted? A car fitted with the self-driving computer, but rather than driving the car it instead compares your actions with one the computer would normally do. What is this comparison for? To determine whether you are a safe driver -- a Safe Driver Rating (SDR).

Self-driving cars will become the new gold standard for determining who is a safe driver -- and failing to meet that standard will result in higher insurance rates.

What does this have to do with malicious hackers? They can fudge the self-driving computer to silently and gradually increase your insurance rates by misreporting your SDR.

What about cars that are neither fully autonomous nor "assisted"? Simple: they don't get built/sold anymore due to being unsafe.
Or just the average meth head doing smash and grabs.
Don't worry OAuth made sense to me in this context somehow..
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I don't see `TextMarshaler` and `TextUnmarshaler` mentioned in `encoding/json` or `encoding/xml` document. Are there any reasons not doing that?
I think much of BTC's valuation come from expectations that money velocity and market penetration will increase.

EDIT: Sorry I meant to say the velocity will decrease.
Why not only disappointed in the ones who upvoted it?
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> In July, the AG’s Office began a criminal investigation into the matter after there were allegations of impropriety at the Hinton State Laboratory.

http://www.mass.gov/ago/news-and-updates/press-releases/2012...
That problem is already solved, and it doesn't require light rail: Privately run shuttles and busses.

It'll never happen, as it's opposed by (1) Taxi operators, (2) Mass transit operators & unions, AND (3) Do-gooders who don't want private business to succeed where public service has failed.
Well, what other measure would you use? The markets did, rather quickly, correct themselves with regards to tulips. There was a brief window of mania, but for the last several hundred years the tulip market seems to have been pretty reasonable.

It's just not possible at this time to know whether Bitcoin provides enough value to succeed in the long term. But to survive in the long term, it has to survive in the short term, and our best measure of short term utility is the market.

Again, if the market crashed far below the mining costs, then I would view that as a demonstration of the lack of Bitcoin's utility. And that very well could happen! But it hasn't yet.
Jason, I'm so sorry for treating you disdainfully. June 22nd, the day you sent over your test, I moved from San Francisco to London full time. I assure you that you were the exception and not the trend as I don't always move across the world and sometimes emails slip through. Ask anyone who has applied at Rentify since. I take extra time out to ensure that candidates understand what Rentify is and what we can offer to employees in terms of career growth. I even wrote a few lengthy articles about it here: http://bufordtaylor.com/post/62455729428/how-we-interview-en...

To be fair, I thought that since you didn't return the coding challenge after 18 days that you simply weren't interested in the job.

And if by 'repeated follow-ups' you mean one email, then I am guilty of that as well and you have my apologies.

Furthermore, I'm assuming instead of 'last year' you meant June.

Finally, my name is Buf.
In a place with such tight information controls, why either of you would assume any of these people had any idea what the lives and information access of the others were like is beyond me.

I don't think it's any kind of contradiction to suggest that both of these things are true: That many people aren't given a choice, and that those who are do not necessarily know about the fact that others are not.
Well, I took a couple of courses at UT which dealt with "practical" distributed systems. The first was more on the lines of here is a large dataset, how do we design a distributed system that handles it. There, we learn about principles/paradigms such as MPI, threading, CUDA to address these issues. I took another course that was basically only Hadoop. Both are good. It completely depends on what the outcome of your course is: If you are looking for someone who just needs a flavor of what it means to think at that scale, generating an EC2 cluster and working on a few Map Reduce problems should be fine. If you are looking more to inculcate general principles of how to think at scale, the former should be good.
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Actually, how much do we know about whether a newborn has a compromised immune system or not? As an adult, we may know our medical history and immunity, either through testing or anecdotal evidence. However, we are talking here about newborns and infants between birth and six, who don't have 20 years of medical history that would indicate strength/weakness of an immune system.
No. However, it is interesting, considering Satoshi could have a net worth in the billions soon if (s)he/they own many of the earlier-mined bitcoins.
since that is exactly what she was lying, or confused about, i fail to see how asking it one more time would help.

in fact, the state prosecutors probably asked her that question a bajillion times, as part of qualifying her as an expert witness.

(added: in case you don't know, i'd like to clarify that qualifying expert witnesses occurs in open court. the defense, judge, jury, anyone watching the case, etc would all hear the question asked, and her answer. this would come after a copy of her CV, including relevant degrees, was submitted.)
The author should disclose whether he was interrupted while writing this article.
The "manual override" will just be another button.
This is yet another reason to use a Javascript whitelist in your browser.
wtf is facecash?
Yes, I'm totally impressed by the conciseness of the book and the added code.
I think that's one correct way to think about it.
Chinese train that never stops
I think it's a documentation omission. Please file an issue: http://golang.org/issue/new
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Every second, an average of 1.8 people die. Keep track of how many died while you were having a meeting. Put things in perspective.
If I understand what you're saying correctly, I don't believe you can invokee a constructor defined in one window within another window ever. Javascript code is sandboxed to its current window/session in all browsers. You can't have multiple windows interacting with each other without some form of server-side code being involved. For what you're talking about (a web framework that has real time communication capabilities and can manage updates across multiple instances of the application on the same machine in different windows), you'll need to involve more than client side javascript. Unless you're talking about using Node.js, which you don't mention here.
One interesting side effect of a safe driver rating is you need to balance the cost of having to pay higher insurance with having to find a new job.

Or another interesting problem is how do you push a self driving car beyond its performance boundaries to save your life? "I'm sorry dave, but I can't let you drive during a hurricane/tsunami warning" "hey car, shut up and drive, the storm surge is rising and unless you get moving you're about to transform into a submarine"

If you get fired from your job because your self driving car decided its not going out in 1 inch of snow, how much do you sue the manufacturer? Or the other way around, your self driving car permitted you to go out in a 24 inch blizzard and it got stuck and you died, how much does your estate and survivors get to sue the manufacturer?" Obviously the proud american tradition of screw the little guy means the mfgrs can do anything they want, but the PR implications mean all self driving cars will shut off whenever the chance of precip is above 0%, or the temp is below 32F, etc. And THATs why I don't want a self driving car, it'll be useless in order to be legally intrinsically safe (only valid operating conditions will be 70 degrees, sunny, daytime, etc, which is about 2 weeks per year where I live.)
> My theory is, everyone's expecting it to crash.

If the market is efficient, the collective expectations is what gives the price at a given moment. It is what people are will ing to pay for it and what people are willing to sell for.
Inflation is not essential.

If people hide their money under mattresses, all that means is that they aren't competing to buy the available goods. Inputs for other ventures are cheaper.

If the government weren't trying to re-inflate the asset bubble with cheap money, ventures that make more sense would be flourishing instead.

Resources are not infinite. When someone accepts a piece of paper and just holds on to it instead of immediately consuming what he could buy, the resources are available for other things.

And when there are more people deferring their consumption, its cheaper to borrow money/resources and cheaper to grow new industries.

Countries don't become rich and powerful by consuming everything as soon as they get it. They do it by growing their industries.
pretty typical of SE Asia from what I've seen.
Leaving it on the field.  No more side projects.
I have wierdly come to a place in which I realize that side projects are bad for my career.

Years ago, they nurtured my talents, provided entertaining distraction from my day job and kept me curious.

After experiencing 2 years of burnout and coming fully back to life, I realize that side projects were partly to blame.

I think side projects taken too far not only is a source of exhaustion and stress but degrades my ability and desire to focus on my employers admittedly mundane work.

But since I left side projects behind I can see the quality of my paid work going sky high relative to 5 years ago.

No matter how smart, curious, creative, focused you are, there's real danger in stretching yourself too thin.

Would like to hear others experiences with this.
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I'm glad you bring that up, yes if we triple price, we can expect food and most things to skyrocket as well. Apart from giving them a rebate or some sort of big tax credit, I don't have a solution to bo honest.

I do not live in Toronto or even nearby, population of my city is 130,000. The public transportation is ok only if you don't have kids.

My point is, a majority of people don't even consider public transportation or electric cars, hybrids are a joke, except for the Chevy Volt.

The government incentives have been increasing but they don't seem to convince a lot of people.
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Agreed, although it's worth pointing out than when you steal $15mm+ from drug dealers, some of them may also be killed when they fail to pay off their debts. And I trust Gwern more than anyone else to have done his research and accuse the right person.

Looking through the information posted, however, I feel pretty appalled seeing that there's also details on his girlfriend (photos, facebook link, full name). She may not even know what her boyfriend is up to, and with $15mm on the line, she should probably be afraid for her safety at this point.
See also the reddit discussion http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ruluz/satoshi_naka... and in particular, my criticisms: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ruluz/satoshi_naka...
I actually had no idea that the price was crashing until after I posted it. I've been writing it for a few days. And I have no stake one way or the other.
Dickens never claimed Twist was the story of his own life. What part of fraud is difficult to understand?
This whole thing reads like "Bible Code" logic.

I went looking for an obscure pattern and found an inconclusive curiosity, therefore, apocalypse!
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What did you expect would've happened to it?
>There is an interesting cryptography problem/question which looks at the cost of mining new BitCoins in comparison to the cost of attempting to guess BitCoin wallet keys.

http://directory.io/1
How did you get to NK, and ... why?
This graph may provide a better picture of the number of transactions (excluding popular addresses like satoshi dice):

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popu...

This one shows a much higher growth. (Although this kind of data doesn't mean much, and i agree bitcoin isn't being used much for actual transactions)
Well the chorus of "Meh, tulips" is growing.
My direct interaction with the profession would indicate you'll still need a dude sitting in the cab, because no one trusts anyone WRT inventory control and you still need human body to load/unload.

The main difference is instead of requiring the coveted commercial drivers license plus or minus hazmat certs, you'll have a grunt laborer who optimistically knows how to count in english and can handle a pallet jack and/or electric forklift.
This may interest you:
http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf
Why?

(I'm curious as I know little of these kinds of things, and because citing sources or giving arguments is always a good thing)
A higher money velocity => lower BTC/USD, but yes, the current price implies a huge future growth of the bitcoin economy. This is what sam is saying and I agree. I happen to think that we will not see that growth/adoption, but that is a different question.
One thing I don't like is that Ubiquiti doesn't support real POE(802.3af/at). I would like to plug my 3xAircam, 2x AP, and Airvision NVR into my POE switch. But I have to have all these injectors hanging off my cables if I don't want to buy their switch.
Well, what other measure would you use?

There is no other way to calculate whether something is done at an economic loss or profit than by the loss/profit mechanism of the economy.

Again, if the market crashed far below the mining costs, then I would view that as a demonstration of the lack of Bitcoin's utility.

Keywords being "far below". In cases where gold was the unit of money, there would be times where mining gold was economically unprofitable. As a result, more goods started chasing a fixed supply of money, bringing up the price of money making it more profitable to mine gold.
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Apparently it's because a large number of people don't think it's a big deal ...
What about the prosecutors involved in requesting faked evidence? One would expect some long sentences.
Sorry, I think the legitimate transactions idea is actually one of the stronger parts of this piece.

> As long as there is a large enough community of people who want to use it to transfer value for any reason, it'll continue to sustain itself.

That's precisely the problem.

A community of speculators will only remain stable or increase in number where the price of the asset continues to grow. In the case of Bitcoin, the price can only grow if legitimate transactions increase, or if more people speculate. With every increase in price the number of people willing to speculate decreases, to the point where you run out of greater fools to sell the asset onto, causing a crash.

That means that an increase in legitimate transactions is really the only way to sustainably grow the value of the network, because it is the only method resistant to falls in price.