skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that at all like this? Apple doesn't drop support for their devices after a year, plain and simple, and that's what Microsoft has done here. If there's a genuine "hardware limitation" that prevented them from giving support to their early adapters, then it's absurdly shocking to me that they didn't have the foresight to know that they might want to create covers like this in the future and add support for them preemptively.
For small notifications (let's say a $50 purchase) I get an SMS

If it's something that rings a bell the bank calls me
It's not an American thing. It's the human condition. I don't care where you live, if someone who lives down the street from you and looks like you gets killed, you care more about that than about someone on the other side of the world. That's how people work.
They have to gain access to the machine first to do the reflashing. Closed source systems make this a lot easier.

Apple's software update process allows for remote targeting of individual machines by MAC address, for example.
I'm not too concerned about the vulnerability but just amazed at the technology. Those tiny little microsd cards contains a microcontroller running at 100mhz equivalent. Didn't ever really consider that
We're talking about nation states here, not individuals. You have, absolutely, an individual right to defend yourself.

You do not have - unless the state grants it to you - the right to murder other human beings. States that use murder as a solution to their problems are undoubtedly going to fail - because the purpose of the State, in the first place, is to provide human beings with safety and protection from death. Death delivered, or received, is still a failure of the State to fulfill that promise.

I do not believe that anyones' interest is protected by the maiming, murder, and disfigurement of villagers' children, on the other side of the world, for the purposes given by the States that are doing it. I believe that the reason States are committing these crimes, is because the Murder Societies within these states are out of control, and no longer answer to the people who put them in power.
It's more so. Anyway that's an argument for restricting other media until the kid is ready, not letting them see porn.
No-one is saying that we shouldn't try to educate our potential enemies, especially in places like Afghanistan. I'm just pointing out that your "drop books on them instead" it fatuous and wouldn't work.

Provide the security so that people won't be killed for being educated, and education is best. Educating without security just leads to dead kids.
Thx for posting the article. "Siri, kill those people", sounds like the makings of a new John Cleese bit. Had to check twice and make sure I wasn't reading an Onion article.

I still wonder how much less existential strife an operator might experience by delegating the killing to an AI machine, especially if one can still see the faces (better resolution) and the carnage following "Siri" carrying out orders.
It may be a dubious argument in theory, but it's not a dubious argument in practice. You have to store value somewhere. If you look at how most people deal with that, they use fiat currencies backed by organizations they trust. There are alternatives, but they have risks as well.
ruby too!
Without curly braces it is simpler to mess up if you revisit the code, maybe especially adding ambiguous else conditions.

I'm sure you and the GP would never forget to add curly braces when inserting an else, but the junior developer who comes afterwards might, and it's just not a huge deal to have the braces because it's two extra chars.

Quite frankly the Linux kernel coding style is wrong on this one in general, I guess we can assume they are experienced enough to put braces in when adding an else clause and so it's not going to cause them errors. But with junior devs it certainly could.
Great advice, all of it!

If you have a family or a partner. Just because
you are at home does not mean "can you just put on
a wash". Build rules into engaging with the family.
You are working. You are not to be disturbed. If
you choose to 'come out' of your office and engage
with the family then that is your choice. Emergencies
are acceptable interruptions ;)

This was one of the toughest parts for me. It was really, really, really difficult to get my partner to understand these boundaries. (And my sense of guilt played into this too. If she was carrying heavy groceries into the house, how could I not go and help her, even if she didn't ask me to?)

One thing that somewhat worked was asking her to consider the following before interrupting me: "If I was working in a 'normal' office job, would you pick up the phone and call me about this?"

If the answer was "yes" then it was okay to interrupt me. If the answer was "no" then it was probably something that could wait until my next bathroom break or dog-walking break.

Most partners understand that they can't phone into your workplace for every little thing ("whoa, the store is having a crazy sale on rutabegas this week!") that pops into their heads.

On my part, I had to understand that in many senses just as she was intruding on my work life, I was intruding on her home life by bringing work into it. She had never worked from home and home was always a place of relaxation and family togetherness, and I had to understand that I was asking her to shift her notions of that.

I was seriously considering getting an "ON AIR" light -- you know, like a DJ would use at a radio station to signal nobody should come into the room -- at one point. Had I not transitioned back into a more standard office job we probably would have!
That's really great!
It might be worth noting that both PRs described in the slides have already been merged.

Links to the PRs (the discussions are worth a read):

1. https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10830

2. https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10965
SONOS please :-)
How is this story anything but a plea to the people to reign in their heinous military masters? You state 'we must be sure we're not being manipulated' - towards what end, exactly? The logical conclusion of this opinion piece (it is marked thus) is that we should not allow our elected representatives to get away with murder.

How is that in any way a negative result?
Please feel free to call a directory "src" when it contains source code. This is standard and avoids needless typing.
> The whole point of drone is to carry out mission 24/7 as much as possible, because a pilot can't fly back and forth without sleeping.

Humans are still required to fly the drones. The "whole point" is that drones can accomplish the same mission without risking a pilot and at a fraction of the cost of a manned aircraft.
Used to play this game for hours as a kid - lots of hotel rooms, condos, cleaning, etc :)
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The problem with this is that it doesn't give any context for the capabilities of other platforms. In reality it is the best we have, by far for attempting to identify friend or foe on the battlefield. When I say by far, I mean it. It is several orders of magnitude better, oh and it has a memory (DVR) so that the users can improve their capabilities.

So the whole things couches it wrong. You could have just as easily have written this:

Despite the feed often being highly pixelated, the video feeds offer far better resolution on suspected enemies than any other method, day or night, often including close quarters combat
How are the drones even relevant to the discussion? There are people controlling some device in order to kill other people. Why does it matter that the device happens to be an UAV in this case? How is it different if the device in question is instead a cruise missile? A rifle? A knife? A fist?

To me, the whole discussion about drones is a big misdirection that uses people's irrational fear of "killer robots" to make detractors forget that ultimately, there's a human pulling the trigger.

Who cares if Obama authorized a drone strike to kill a US citizen abroad? What I care about is that he authorized an assassination of a US citizen, not that he chose "drone strike" as the method.
War is hell. --> War is a racket.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
Did they seriously not have the foresight or product planning to know that they might want to create covers like this in the future? That's such a weak excuse. It's not like the Surface RT came out four years ago, it was the end of last year.

They should've done everything they could to prevent themselves from leaving their early adopters behind, although I'm not surprised in the slightest that they did so. They did it to Windows Phone 7 users in the transition to Windows Phone 8, and they're doing it again now.
I was worried it might be an empirical result :) thanks for responding, though, and I'd love to see the post when it's finished
Look, take the amount of technology developed to murder, kill and maim - and instead use that same degree of technology to educate, enlighten, and liberate. How hard is it to understand this concept?

It was once very, very difficult to drop a bomb on a childs head from afar - you used to have to do a lot more. Now its 'easy', relatively speaking. Imagine if that same scale of efficacy were applied, instead, to educating - to healing - to helping instead of killing.

What would the "B1 Bomber" of education systems look like? Lets develop it, and deliver.
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Believe me, I'm a great advocate of building the thing you need rather than blinding using libraries, but there's some great stuff out there: lessc, RabbitMQ (although that works well on Windows), Riak, Postgres, neo4j, hadoop, jQuery (Microsoft saw the light on that one), elastic search, pygments. Of those, Microsoft can offer alternatives to 2 of them: MSMQ and SQL Server. The others are sufficiently costly to re-implement that you're likely to just try to work around the problem (I'd love to see someone attempt a DB with Riak-like reliability on .NET... RavenDB is not that DB.)
People have been making and wearing gold jewelry for thousands of years despite wide fluctuation in price. Gold doesn't tarnish and is easy to work, so it is uniquely suited for jewelry. (That also gives it a lot of industrial applications, which set another price floor.)
Honesty as a software developer
For many people here (like me) English is second language. I try to improve my english by writing comments. I think it may be the reason why you see so many misspellings.
Fewer drone strikes are not necessarily in the national interest. Taking the horrors of drone strikes out of context is manipulative if we don't also consider the horrors of the alternative ways of achieving military objectives.
Browsing on a mobile or tablet can be painful. Its hard to type, and simple things like copy-paste are hard. On the other hand, mobiles - with their touch interfaces are extremely amenable to discovery and exploration.

Pugmarks aims to solve exactly this - reduce the pain of searching inside a browser, by anticipating information needs - and bring them to them, all in real time, inside of the comfort of the browser.

Pugmarks is like having Google Now inside the browser.
300,000,000 / 7,000,000,000 = 3 / 70, or a little less than half (3.5 / 70) of 10% (7 / 70). About 4%.
Of course they will improve. It is like saying 4 years ago that smartphones won't improve - they are already small, have limited battery, limited throughput on mobile internet etc. Drones will improve like any modern technology that's being used.
The ideal of "Batman" and most other superheroes encapsulate this idea exactly.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it looks like if you could install a system font on a computer then you could create a unique fingerprint for that computer that is detectable by any website?

I am uniquely identifiable out of the 3.7 million samples because of my system fonts.
Did you even try it? You can get pretty far by just tinkering. I came up with a O(n) algorithm that gets me 30 rectangles just by playing around. In general, you can get "pretty good" results just by taking low hanging fruit then optimizing.
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How about support shebang style block?

{#!python

do dome python...

}
In fact, the things that would make it difficult to do this are routinely criticized by "open source" partisans as tools for suppressing Linux.
I think you intended this as a reductio ad absurdum but a lot of people take this view, quite possibly the majority of Europeans and Buddhists for example.
What's semantically insane about Lisp? I find it has very clean semantics; it is strongly typed, its scope is perfectly lexical (sans a explicit caveat), programs are commonly written in a way that preserves referential transparency (in the FP sense, anyway), with pockets of imperative mutation here and there. The limited dynamic scope may be somewhat unpleasant though, but that's its flexibility.

As for macros, they are merely functions that transform expressions. They can be somewhat unpleasant to read, but they are basically that.
Because you can circumvent the centralized authority of DNS registrars. Look at the Pirate Bay, who keeps having its domain names revoked by central authorities. Namecoin's ledger allows people to agree on who has what domain name without using a standard registrar
See above. Could be testing for problem solving ability and willingness to try.
Imagine if the resources being used to develop drones and bombs and other killing robots were instead being used to develop tools that would improve the lives of your average Afghani child. This would be a far more honorable investment than the current situation.

Yes, I'm not sure I know what it would look like, but I'm pretty sure that its possible to develop the "B1 bomber" of education systems. I'm quite sure that the technology being used to deliver death from the skies can instead be used to improve the agricultural requirements of the average Afghani village. Heck, even an AK47 can be turned into a water pump, given the right intentions ..
It is a little dated, but this doc shows 200mA required for the card on highspeed writes. I was curious how much power needed to run that little uC.

http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/M-Systems%20Inc%2...
Reply to classicsnoot: in your referenced article the estimated US population is 317 million, and the world population is 7134 million. 317/7134=0.444 so the US population is then 4.4% of the world population.
The benefit of this, in addition to the obvious (you don't have to put on pants to "go to work") is that any space in your home used solely for business purposes is tax deductible under the US tax scheme.

My company pays 100% of my personal apartment rent, and I receive an additional W2 for the percentage of non-office space as personally taxable income. This means that 100% of the money paid is a corporate tax deduction, and the parts paid for my office never hit my personal income.

I recently learned that because my flat is a 2 bathroom, one of those bathrooms can be included in the "office space" calculation as well, as offices require bathrooms.

Standard disclaimer: I am not an accountant or a lawyer, so this is layperson advice. Consult with a professional.

As mentioned above, make sure it has a door, and close it. Train your housemates/family/partner/SO/whatever to leave you alone while you're "at work".
What military objectives are your States trying to achieve by maiming and crippling Afghani children?
Proof or not, his point is sound. Why was he referenced in the article about Expedia if he has nothing to do with the allegations presented?
What military objectives - we are not at war with any of these countries.
Why does it need to run a java applet to do this?
That's crazy, I ended up feeling the same way. At first just the cool factor of building something like skynet blinded me. I had friends deployed in wars and I often found myself being worried and told myself that what I'm working will someday make sure that my friends' probability of coming home in a bodybag will be reduced significantly. I also told myself that my code itself was so early that it would never see any real action in any meaningful way. But eventually what I was helping to build became too much to think about.

I moved on to hacking car ecu's and making them go faster. Utterly meaningless compared to my previous job, but a good fun couple of years of what amounted in my mind to toy-building after what I'd previously worked on. You can say I joined your group as well. I can only imagine what the poor sobs in the article go through, they don't exactly have the option to join said group. Not to mention watching real people dying in near real time must have a crazy impact that I can't ever compare to my own experience.
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> We need to make sure we're not being manipulated.

By whom? The people telling us their experience with the program, or the people who tell us nothing about what they do for our own protection?

> The military is aware of the impact on these operators. From a February 20013 article sighting a Defense Department study: “Remotely piloted aircraft pilots may stare at the same piece of ground for days,” said Jean Lin Otto, an epidemiologist who was a co-author of the study.

Can you give more context on the quote you cite? I'm not sure how staring at the ground addresses suicide risk, as I do not believe anyone is dying of boredom here.

> War is hell. The issues are complex. Trusted new sources add to the debate.

All the more reason to listen to those who present their own direct experience with it, no?
Indeed, what right does America have to kill any "suspected terrorist" in Yemen?

Mostly because the people in charge of approving that in the Yemeni government have approved it [1]

[1] http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/09/30/264233/yemens-hadi-...
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Quoted from the article:

Take, for example, when they intercept shipping deliveries. If a target person, agency or company orders a new computer or related accessories, for example, TAO can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops. The NSA calls this method interdiction. At these so-called "load stations," agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics, or even install hardware components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence agencies. All subsequent steps can then be conducted from the comfort of a remote computer.
There are a lot of comments, so i apologize if i am parroting a wiser person, but this thought has been occupying my head for some time and i crave the sweet relief of discourse.

Drones are here to stay. Maybe like nuclear weapons, they will be something we try to eradicate later, but for now, we must accept and incorporate them, as companies/governments will make it happen regardless of our [read:citizenry(...of the world, of course)] concerns or opposition. In light of this, it is me earnest and sincere belief that control of the sky over our heads is up for grabs. Bothered by kill bots flown over your head by sme assholes in Nevada? Start building aerial jammers, yo. Think those pigs in your 'hood are corrupt? Set up video surveillance and make it open/free access online. Take pictures of cops using their mobiles whilst driving. Say nothing unnecessary at traffic stops; be happy to join them for a free ride to the station and a front row seat to how paperwork is an unbiased weapon in the hands of informed folks. I am so sick of soccer moms and military assholes telling me what is "safe", what "security" means, and how freaking precious our nation is. There is no one coming to save us, not in the US, not in Europe, and especially not in China (India... well we will see). But that is cool, because we have Internet. Seriously, in a stand up arms race, who is going to win, they people paying 100 million per drone or the people paying 1000 per drone. We dont need ordinance. We don't need permission. We have all the know how required [the OP/author sounds like a soldier of conscience if there ever was one]. This is not some Occupy circus. It is not a call for revolution or insurrection. It is just one person, trying to point out the facts...

We, as the armchair scientists and tech inclined folk of the world, have the balance of insight, experience, funding, and motivation on our side. what is more, we need not kill anyone. we dont need to blow anyone up. Most importantly, we get to be honest, and we get to work by choice.

We as people need not sit idly by while politicians and constables decide our fates and the fates of our brothers and sisters around the world. i long for a day when my country, because we kick ass, carpet bombs africa and the middle east weekly with well made books, toothpaste, and ruggedized tablet computers. I do not think this is a fantasy, but i am very aware of the other options.

...shit, this isn't the meeting at the docks...
The asymmetry of people getting killed in your country versus people getting killed in enemy countries is as old as human history. The bedrock of international relations is killing people in other countries. That won't change. We won't become a world of pacifists anytime soon.

Given that, do drones make more mistakes than armed soldiers or bomb drops or cruise missiles? That's the relevant question. And there is good reason to believe they do. The drone operator may not have as good a view as a soldier, but also doesn't risk his own life on a false negative.
Cryptonomicon is my favorite so far! Glad I am not the only one who enjoys his writing.
it's not the first time i see reports about war traumas for drone pilots and analysts.
I hope this won't be used later as an argument for fully automated drones. I much prefer having a least some people traumatized by being in war than none.
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I disagree, on iOS and Android, you pretty know what libs will be in the default installation, because it is documented.

But your experience conforts me, I'll work on it soon :)
Also, we're sorry that we left you without good debugging tools

I just thought that was part of the challenge. (See if you can get by with scientific method and printf debugging.) The biggest problem I had was that the environment kept freezing. However, copy-pasting into the window from emacs worked fine.
It uses flash and Java to try to access the system font list.
Given the strong guarantees of Fed independence and inflation-targeting written into its establishing laws, I think the hyperinflation case you're worried about boils down to a collapse of the American political system or its defeat in a much more major war than it's been involved in for many decades. This is a risk to think about and plan for, but not at the cost of exposing yourself to the risks of storing your wealth in such a volatile commodity as bitcoin. Stock up on living needs and stable commodities if that possibility seems realistic to you, and be ready to use bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
Have you tried it recently? I tried an early beta and it was really rough around the edges. I've been using it in production since beta 2 and it is very very polished.
I highly reccomend "The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology" and "Technology in Postwar America: A History", both by Carroll Pursell.