skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you missed including these items:

As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified
documents show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint
Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN
airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the
switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist
acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans
in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the
following ABC news report; the official documents; and
watch this interview with the former Washington
Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with
Peter Jennings.

2 years before, American Senator George Smathers had
suggested that the U.S. make “a false attack made on
Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually
fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to
go in and [overthrow Castro]“.

And Official State Department documents show that – only
nine months before the Joint Chiefs of Staff plan was
proposed – the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-
level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the
Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of
that country. The 3 plans were not carried out, but they
were all discussed as serious proposals

While he included the disclaimer at the end "the 3 plans were not carried out", he mixes this in with a list of actual false flag operations, and if you didn't know better when reading these items, you may believe that these were actually carried out by the US government.

Mixing real false-flag operations with things that were at some point discussed as possible options is fairly misleading at best; couple with all of the other examples you quote, I would call this post downright dishonest.

Between the paranoia about "false flag", and the line "People are slowly waking up to this whole con job by governments who want to justify war", this is veering dangerously close to "wake up sheeple!" territory.
I really like how Gradle has solved this problem. You check in the Gradle wrapper (http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper....) into your source control (it's only 56K), and it automatically fetches Gradle for you if you don't have it. Updating the project's Gradle version is just a matter of changing one or two lines.

It's cool to think that the only requirement for anybody to jump into a Gradle project is to have the JDK installed. "git clone <project>", "./gradlew assemble" is all it takes for you to fetch all your dependencies and build the project.

I think it'd be interesting to see if Vagrant could incorporate something like this; it sounds like it would help your use case.
This is truly great work by Moxie, CyanogenMod devs and everyone else who may have contributed to this project. Kudos guys/gals!

One important implementation detail question that comes to mind is "How does the system detect and fix the issue of key exchange errors?"

While using the TextSecure app from the Play store, I've experienced a situation twice where a key exchange would have to be re-initiated manually after a friend and I got out of sync (he was receiving my messages garbled in TextSecure). I imagine it's possible for this to happen in the built-in Cyanogenmod version, and I don't see any documentation specifically addressing it. Without visual notification of a "secured" connection, the user could end up inadvertently sending plain-text messages.
3 Ways Bitcoins Could Be Worthless?
Public sector unions and corrupt/incompetent government workers in SF Bay Area is the root cause of the atrocious public transportation in this area, money is not. There are plenty of cities around the world that spends less per capita on infrastructure but still has a way more effective system.
I've been following the guy for some time... If his stuff works, he deserves to get rich. a lot. fast.
Cold fusion has been THE controversial science field since Pons & Fleischmann, but some scientists work on it anyway. Not sure I'll count Rossi among them.

Maybe it's just a dream... but it's worth dreaming.

And if Rossi doesn't make it work, I hope someone will...
The Bay Area tech sector is not to blame, here. It's those opposing densification: Paris is beautiful and has a density of 21,000/km^2. San Francisco can thus clearly remain beautiful and functional while increasing its density from its current paltry 6,600/km^2.

Want an affordable San Francisco? Increase the number of housing units.

- low-density
- beautiful
- affordable

... pick two.
Made up largely of older professionals, working married couples and more educated singles, the new rich are those with household income of $250,000 or more at some point during their working lives. That puts them, if sometimes temporarily, in the top 2 percent of earners.
Even outside periods of unusual wealth, members of this group generally hover in the $100,000-plus income range, keeping them in the top 20 percent of earners.

This range gets hit the hardest by personal income taxes, so sibling commenter's observation of income, not wealth, is astute. 20% of the population may be in the top 2% of earners in income for one or more years, but they'll be hard pressed to sustain it AND overcome taxes.

Also, I noticed that those interviewed in the article have inherently volatile earning profiles. Stock brokers, day traders, art gallery owners... And early startup employees are a part of the cohort too, with spikes one time payouts.
CoinPunk* always mix those two up.
You should start at the basics though. And validation sets were the start of the literature
Yeah I wouldn't argue that BTC works out better at the moment. But one of the ideas mentioned in the original bitcoin paper was about reducing the costs of having trusted central parties, and the corrolaries of that. It has the potential to be a more efficient system overall. Maybe.
Several years ago I worked at an adult entertainment company. They were involved in pretty much every vertical of adult content except perhaps print. When I read articles like this one I'm always amazed at how well the tone of numbness carries through. This is the essential characteristic of the adult industry, as everyone involved in it, top to bottom, is numb or becomes numb.
Well, the naïve way is to allocate a big block of memory for your C program and manage it using malloc/free like normal (basically, use the LispOS equivalent of sbrk(2)). Alternatively, since pointers are pointers, nothing stops you from having malloc(3) call out to the Lisp runtime's GC. (free(3) is a no-op.) That's basically how the Boehm G. works. I'm not a systems programmer so I'll admit this is a bit hand-wavy. Also, note that malloc/free are not part of the core C language, per se, but the standard library (a/k/a the C runtime). Even if they were in the core language spec, you as the compiler author can implement them however you choose. They aren't magical.
Extreme realizations and exploiting workers is a problem in any industry. People have died farming gold in video games. Its why we have labor laws.
It's hard for me to take seriously an article that uses yearly salary to measure wealth. Beyond the fact that money is an extremely poor indicator of wealth due to cost variance across the country, simplifying someone's liquid assets into a direct relationship with yearly income is absurd.
That article is down right stupid. It's not the rich people's job to invest in public infrastructure, it's the government's job. Wealthy people contribute to that by paying large amount of tax. All those hip restaurants and fancy parking spots in the city? Those are tax revenues.

Can't help it that the city is so poorly/corruptly run that it has one of the highest budget in the country yet still can't manage to fix a few potholes before the heat death of the universe.
Honestly, calling validation a trick isn't helping.

Understanding the motivation behind validation is an absolutely fundamental concept, and lack of coherence on the topic shows an inherent lack of understanding of the goal of building the model in the first place; GENERALIZATION.

This is synonymous with one checking in code that has no issues locally, without testing in the stack or a production environment.

I work and hire in this space and it's actually a bit shocking how widespread this lack of understanding is. Asking a candidate how to evaluate a model, even at a basic level, is this field's version of FizzBuzz. Just like Fizzbuzz, a lot of candidates I've encountered who are "trained" in machine learning or statistics fail miserably, and my peers seem to have similar experiences.

These issues are expected, given how popular data science is these days. We all win when more people are getting their hands dirty with data, but it's extraordinarily easy to misuse the techniques and reach misleading conclusions. This can potentially lead to people pointing fingers at the field and it's decline. The only thing we can do is correct the wrongs and do our best to limit incompetence that only serves to tarnish the field.
That was a fascinating, well-written, and yet incredibly sad read. It's easy to lose touch in the relative comfort of the first world, both geographically as well as virtually. I loved the comparison to the red light district. Desperately lonely divorced Western men spending a fortune on these young foreign girls and boys for companionship and sexual gratification, and the young folks drawn into whoring out their bodies over the internet just to make rent and buy food. Or, evidently, to squander their money "Gangnam Style" on luxuries to feel rich. The whole thing reaches a level of depravity almost to the point of absurdity. Interestingly enough, Romania turns out to have among the fastest average broadband connection speeds in the world [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Romania#Average_Spe...
> In its most extreme realizations has been shown to cause severe emotional harm to exploited workers.

Care to share these findings?
Reddit has a pro-suicide sub reddit. It is illegal for people in England to aid someone who is attempting suicide.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/60

> Criminal liability for complicity in another’s suicide.

> (1)A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

This law is mostly used to prevent more active assistance in suicide, but it is also used to prevent people giving advice about how to complete suicide.

So, that's one current sub reddit.

In the past there were jailbait subreddits. I never visited so I have no idea about the content, but English law is stricter than US law around images of people under the age of 18.
Please no. iMessage is terrible when one side is offline. You send iMessage, but the receiver isn't connected, so it will not receive the message until it's online. iMessage and SMSs should keep separate.
$200k for a household is not affluent. Its just two people with good jobs.

The way the economy is, that often doesn't last. Then you have one person with a good job, and you better hope you saved. But you can easily eat up all of that previous income with things like urban housing which can be very expensive, an extra car, or a child's college tuition.

So anyway suggesting this situation occurring at some point for someone today is 'affluence' is not very realistic.

Maybe a few decades ago with less inflation those numbers would indicate 'affluence'.
Good. There was a problem and they decreased the amount of people affected by it. Since when is that a bad thing? Let alone worth protesting.
The people getting rich off of this industry are the cam sites, such as MyFreeCams or LiveJasmin, typically taking half of the earnings brought in (models get the other half, often split down to a quarter if a studio is involved). Several of them are generating tens of millions in revenue at this point, and are among the top 500 sites globally in traffic.

The founder of MyFreeCams runs a VC business in the US with his cam wealth.

I wouldn't be surprised if in another five years the cam business is larger than the traditional porn industry, including the large porn sites.
Looks like Fisk and Gould were relatively unaffected by it, the country at large suffered a great loss, and nobody was punished for it.

My word, history does repeat itself, they were just shy a government handout and a multi-million dollar skiing trip.
Showcase the covers of your favorite albums, based on your Last.fm statistics
Like a virtual community center?

It would need games and activities as well as profiles.

How would it differ from facebook? Not that I approve of what facebook has become but I can imagine spending a lot of time developing this awesome site only to have it be nothing more than a social media clone.
Microsoft's Indie Game policy screwing over other systems and gamers
Zuck's Q&A on AI/ML at Facebook at NIPS 2013
Here is a bullet point summary of Mark's answers at NIPS 2013:

- wants to publish.

- separate from the ads team (ads team is already a ML powerhouse) and the newsfeed or photo teams.

- wants to use the dataset of FB that he "can't" let out for privacy concerns.

- staff: Marc'Aurelio Ranzato / Yann Lecun (director) / Rob Fergus, a lot of other rumors going around at NIPS.

- acquisition (acquihired?) of a speech-related startup (Mobile Technologies) is in this direction too, using FB messenger's video calls as data.

- will invest in clusters (mentioned GPUs) / large scale (obvious)

- wants to take advantage of multimodal input (ImageNet-like problems with tagged photos and instagram)

- compared the long-time vision he has for the AI/ML lab(s) as an exo-cortex which is the next step after cortex -> neo-cortex.

- http://imgur.com/QDDDMGm Mark Zuckerberg / Yoshua Bengio

- there should be the video on the NIPS website at some point.

To sum up, pretty good PR, with seemingly honests short-time goals (solve ImageNet-like problems) and long-time vision ("strong" AI).
If you are talking about liquid net wealth, you might be right.

However, I think most people who are married and have a family will most likely have their wealth tied up in a house, 401(k)/IRA or college fund; since most of the tax incentive is geared to saving money in these relatively illiquid accounts.

So I think for most Americans earning that income bracket def. has > 100K in net worth but they are just not liquid.
In general, I thinking its reasonable to say that regardless of whether or not the accusation turns out to be true, the initial evidence is always weak. It takes time and a drip drip effect until the case becomes true, or not.
Sorry my colleague is the real deal a proper red clydsider member of the YCL on the engineering federations black list.

He was first introduced to me as our "smiling Rottweiler" and it turns out that he is one of the swearing coaches for the think of it I would not be surprised.

Hes deeply knowledgeable about Scottish politicos and that was his considered view.
The simplest (and arguably most egregious) example is the sex industry's use of children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_sexual_exploitation_...
You are correct that validation sets are only one technique. But, the concept of validation, and the reasoning/justification to do it is an absolutely central idea. What is the point of a model that doesn't aim to generalize?
These are just the fattest cows in the herd. Being able to afford "luxury" versions of mass-manufactured crap isn't wealth. Wealth requires means a measure of financial independence and security. Dual-income professional couples who manage to get into the $100-250k range don't really have these, although they're in a better position than the rest of the middle class. Between student loans, school expenses, childcare expenses, saving for college, saving for retirement, etc, they can afford some toys but that's about it. Comparing them to the wealthy and saying they wield power in the economy is utterly ridiculous.

Also, does anyone understand the chart? Does it mean that 76% of 60 year olds will make > $100k at some point?
Considering things in what perspective? Everything listed here about the US was either just a proposal that never came to fruition, or not actually a false flag attack (a grunt trying to cover up civilian casualties by planting weapons on them, as reprehensible as it is, is a far cry from a false-flag terror attack on your own people).
yeh it was rough at the time but looking back, if i'd known lisp at all beforehand it wouldnt have been so bad. it was directly listed by many as a turn-off though and is a big part of why a lot of people from my dep't just audited
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hmm I suppose it seems obvious to some people, but I've met a number of people trying to become programmers for reasons that won't get them very far. Just my two cents.
Using a different browser (technically, a different rendering engine) is not allowed on the iPhone. There are alternative browsers like Chrome, but they use the iPhone Safari rendering engine and serve merely to sync your bookmarks and whatnot with your other Chrome bookmarks and provide a slightly different UI.
Posts like this make me think there's something that others know that I don't.

#1 - "I have a new {website, product, service} but I don't feel comfortable telling people about it."

#2 - "Want to know a secret? A good idea is to let me go on HN, ask a question related to your product, and then you come in and be the hero by telling people your x solves their problem.

I'm not saying OP is doing this but it is done here, and more and more often. The more basic the question, the fishier it is...
Yes, exactly. They have 10% of the shares but they might end up with more than 10% of the proceeds of a sale, if the sale price is less than $2B. That has an impact on the value of the remaining shares.
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There are claims that Crypto AG products used to leak keys in ciphertext, at the request of the NSA:

http://www.hermetic.ch/crypto/kalliste/speccoll.htm
Has to be something else. Chip and/or RFID is pretty common in every country I've been to that isn't USA.
> I hate to think how much time it will cost me if I ever have a real problem.

If you're a person with clue, get friendly with the folks at the local Comcast office, or one of the technicians. If you're technically inclined and can demonstrate that you're wise enough to only call them about issues with their network, you'll probably be able to get the support number for the local office.
I've seen this before, on the same user. How, if he is hellbanned, do you see that he's trying to post? Is it unlocked on seasoned accounts similar to downmods?
Actually, icelancer does get to decide. We all have to choose our nouns and pronouns, perhaps a relic of English lacking a neutral pronoun, but choose we must.

I think you'll find transgenders, et al, having to live the lives they do, have developed a far more nuanced take on public perception than fits with the role most of their self-styled allies have assumed on their behalf.

One of my first patients was an HIV positive stripper who presented with shingles. During the history, I noted the off-label estrogen and the B cup and asked "Darren, what pronoun would prefer?" "He is fine, but whatever makes you comfortable" he said.
Do you really think the parent is talking about "nit-picky" stuff such as that ... Are you aware of no grammar problem anywhere in the US??? Really? You would have to be pretty sheltered for that to be the case.
Your point of view couldn't be more incorrect. Coworking spaces aren't modeled around a brothel atmosphere as most cam dens are. There are "humane" cam studios in some countries like Germany where there are regulations for sex workers, but this is usually the exception.
Shameful? And the president himself is not shameful? We are witnessing the biggest information scandal in the history of mankind ie- 'Snowden revelations' - and it all happened under his watch.
I'd like to see how many households are earning over $250K total where that household has less than $100K in net wealth.

You might find this useful:
http://www.census.gov/people/wealth/
I've been looking at this recently too. I like the basic design of chordite http://chordite.com/

7 keys across four fingers, and then perhaps a trackpoint for the thumb.

In terms of a bluetooth gpio controller, there are a few options including a few that have been kickstarted recently (e.g. bleduino and rfduino).
I believe the teams in the last America's Cup spent about $100 million each for their boats and R&D.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4771202/larry-ellisons-tea...

If we could turn the space race into some sort of competition every 4 years, we might just reignite the space age.
I suspect this is an effect of our Foveal Vision:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovea_centralis

We only see things in the centre of the eye crisply and the effective 'resolution' reduces the further away we get from this point. Thus, perhaps, the extra colour is perceived as more screen rather than coloured wall.
I don't think it's about skill as such, rather about increased productivity.

People are generally expected to be able to drive, and for many, this ability comes with benefits. I don't see why basic programming (file system, lists, loops, conditionals) should be any harder, or less useful.
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It is interesting to see policies made in regards to Bitcoin vs. making a policy for all virtual currencies of similar type. I guess the main reason for focusing on Bitoin is that without naming Bitcoin you are forced to create a well defined definition of what virtual currency you are referring to which will probably happen later on down the line.
Gyft.com gives 3% cashback if you pay in bitcoin at a variety of retailers.
"Wealth" is assets, not income.
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No, the companies and their employees would NOT win more if it were public. Want to have a semi-confidential conversation? Better be on the private bus. Want to have the bus have wifi VPN'd back to the home office? Works better on a private bus. Want more certainty of finding a seat, or having a power outlet to charge your laptop? Works better on a private coach. Want special hours to accommodate a hackathon, or a holiday party or other special event? Works better for a private service. Want to keep protesters from annoying your employees...?

It's not the case that everyone would win more, IMO.
Moving into the SV bay area, my internet cost doubled, speed cut in half, and call-center service got significantly worse. It's not the worst internet in America, but it's noticeably below the average that I've seen, and costs more.
What I imagine this study totally glosses over is the fact that many middle class families do make over $250,000 once in their life b/c they sell a home. That is far from making them "rich".
I hope these labs are as productive as Google or the old DEC labs: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/